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Healthy Meatloaf with Hidden Veggies
The Man of Steel loves meatloaf. Me? Not so much. So I'm always on the hunt for meatloaf recipes healthy enough for a guy able to devour great mounds of the stuff at one setting and tasty enough for me. Thanks to my daughter-in-law, who mentioned a meatloaf recipe...
How Good Were the Good Old Days?
You know those pictures about the good old days that keep making the rounds on Facebook? The ones about kids playing outside more way back when? Or about how we ate raw cookie dough and didn't die? How the present generation has been coddled by their parents? But not...
Different Dream Vlog Series: Your Dreams Change
Happy Friday to you! You’ve arrived just in time for today’s read aloud for parents of kids with special needs. Today’s episode in the Different Dream vlog series comes from the diagnosis section of A Different Dream for My Child. It is entitled Your Dreams Change. In...
You Can Have Your Biscotti and Eat It, Too
I tried a new main dish recipe this week, and it was delicious. But... We served it for company, and it seemed a bit awkward to ask everyone to not eat until I took pictures. So... That recipe will wait to be made again and photographed with only the Man of Steel...
Top Ten Reasons to Appreciate Shrinking Daylight Hours
The September equinox left the building two days ago. That means shrinking daylight hours and increasing hours of darkness for the next several months. Not my favorite time of year. But in an effort to think positive, I came up with ten things to appreciate this...
Lessons From My Father: Good, Cheap Fun, Pt. 2
The first half of Good Cheap Fun appeared on the Gravel Road way back in August. Today, you can finally read the second half of the excerpt from Lessons From My Father. As has been mentioned, this tale of vacation woe is packed with more catastrophe than a person can...