“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” Bill Watterson “How do you do it all?!” I’ve been asked this so many times in the years I have been working full time while raising my boys. The answer is an emphatic, “I absolutely don’t!”. No one does it all, but we all […]
Author: Alicia Fick
Sizzling Summer: Easy Kid Treats
Is it just me or does everything taste better outside? Juicy peaches, sweet strawberry shortcake, grilled salmon….the vibrant flavors just seem to pop in the summer. Outside is where it’s at in the summer. Picnic lunches at the park, snacks on hiking trails, burgers and fries after a long day playing in Lake Tahoe. I […]
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Sizzling Summer: Kids Books
” Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colours in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill. “― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Oh, summer, you […]
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Love Everyone
“Love Everyone”. These were last words of a very dear family friend that recently passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. Certainly he meant to tell the family gathered around that he loved them. But I took these words as a benediction of sorts, and an apropos title for this inaugural post. My love language is food. […]