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Marie Callender’s Comforts From Home Project Aids our Troops
There was a Marie Callender’s restaurant near my childhood home in Tustin and our family use to go quite a bit. Their homemade chili and cornbread are just amazing and I loved ordering their pot pies as well. For me, Marie Callender’s offers such comfort food. And every now and then we all need that, don’t we?! Thankfully, they started offering frozen meals using high-quality ingredients that are available at your local grocery store so you can pick up a comfort meal at any time for yourself and family. The are also famous for their pies and one of my favorites is their apple pie. Warm or cold, topped with…
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Breaking Bread with Brooke Burke
With the holidays upon us hosting or attending family dinners can be so much fun or chaotic or a little of both don’t you think? One of my favorite memories is the year my mother thought it would be fun to have a food fight on Thanksgiving. Yes, we were all sitting around the table enjoying our turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole (well, at the time my mom was the only one who liked that dish), and dinner rolls when my mom picked up a handful of mashed potatoes and threw them at my dad, laughing the whole time. After a few moments of complete shock…
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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month
November is Native American Heritage Month. A time for us to pay tribute to the ancestry and traditions of the first Americans. The people and culture of Native Americans were met with tragedy many times over as Europeans filtered into the New World, looking for riches and putting down flags, claiming the land as their own. The first Americans faced slavery and war, being defeated by guns and disease. But the traditions and culture of the first Americans remains to be an important part of history. Our history. And much of their heritage, beliefs and traditions teach us about respecting the Earth and using resources wisely. Something we often forget…
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Celebrating Families this Holiday Season
Some of you might know about our family’s difficulty conceiving years ago and were told that the only way I would get pregnant was if I went through months of fertility drugs and artificial insemination due to hormonal issues I was having at the time. Since my mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at a young age (48), I wasn’t too keen on disrupting my hormones with drugs. Hearing those words in the doctors office was very painful and I remember feeling like I was somehow failing – myself and my husband. I think feeling this way is pretty normal when you are told you cannot have a child naturally and…
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Inspirational Mom: Holly Robinson Peete, Hollywood’s Autism Advocate
I’m not someone who’s starstruck. Sure I appreciate talent and I am an avid movie goer. Sure, I’d have a hard time giving up my favorite television shows or Netflix account, but I don’t look to movie and television stars as my heroes or role models. That is until I met Holly Robinson Peete. She’s an actress, author, talk show host, philanthropist, and—where I find inspiration the most—mom to four children, one with autism. In 1997, Holly and her husband, former NFL quarterback Rodney Peete, formed the HollyRod Foundation, to help with Parkinson’s disease. (Her father, the original “Gordon,” on Sesame Street, had Parkinson’s.) Then in 2005, inspired by their…
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Crafts :: The Giving Plate
Thanksgiving is a week away and to avoid last minute shopping for gifts I am baking cookies to fill my giving plates. I love this original handmade gift for sharing life’s special moments with those closest to your heart. With the holiday season upon us, the Giving Plate is perfect for creating your own traditions while reflecting on the meaning of the special time you spend with those you love. Take turns with the Giving Plate—give it to Mom or Grandma even a friend—and maybe you will receive it back, a special reminder of one another. You will need: Craftsmart paint pens (ideal for wood, plastic, metal and glass) I found…
