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Today I interrupt the posts about cupcakes and cookies to share a very important post that is very personal and close to my heart. Today is the first National Apraxia Awareness Day. What’s apraxia? Yeah, about a year ago, I had no idea either. Fast forward to today, and I am extremely aware of what apraxia is. Why? Because apraxia of speech is a neurological disorder that our beautiful three year old daughter Grace is severely {Read More}
It’s been a crazy few weeks around here. Well, it’s always crazy, but it’s been super crazy, like things you never expect to happen kind of crazy! So let’s play catch up on what’s been going on here at Love From The Oven… First, big exciting news, I recently signed with Running Press to write my first cookbook, Smart Cookie, which will hopefully be hitting stores in Fall 2014! This has been in the works for a few months, as {Read More}
Last week HuffPost Parents shared an amazing and powerful “care map” that special needs parent Cristen drew to illustrate all that goes into caring for her special needs child. It was incredible to look at and see all of the items written out, the items that for most parents are juggled around in their head day after day. I am a very visual person, and seeing it all written out was incredible to me. It also made me realize “yeah, {Read More}
I am supposed to be sitting down to write a post about cookies or cupcakes or something baking related. But I was distracted (well, what’s new) by a great post from Francesca Kaplan Grossman over at Huff Post Parents. Jealousy, Judgement & Motherhood. When she talks about wanting to be that mom who has it totally together, but in reality is the mom peeling a half eaten granola bar out of her bag, unwrapped, and handing it to her toddler {Read More}
There are days that are good. There are days that are bad. And there are some days that are hard. Today is hard. I always feel like I need to immediately add a disclaimer – it could be so much worse. I’ve watched friend’s lose spouses at young ages, children go through cancer, terrible awful soul breaking devastation. I’m always aware of how blessed we are, and I am so thankful for that every day and am so aware at {Read More}
I am not, in any way, organized by nature. I struggle (really struggle) to stay on top of things. My oldest daughter has such a busy schedule as well as a very demanding academic load, and she is her mother’s daughter – organizationally challenged as well. We are trying to come up with new ways to stay on top of things, especially with school. I came across an old 11×14 frame that had been sitting in a closet for years. {Read More}
I shared recently that I will be adding some non-cooking related content to the website, with topics including house and home, parenting, craft projects and thoughts on creating change in life. Well, here we go! For each of these non food related posts, I will have a little icon in the upper left corner – like the blue one you see that says “Creating Change”. If you are a strictly recipe reader, this is your hint that this isn’t food {Read More}
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