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Hey Emma! I wasn’t raised in a house where we ate things that were made from scratch. Aside from Nestle toll house cookies with a recipe that came straight off the back of the bag, we ate boxed and canned everything. Boxed cakes, boxed brownies and boxed muffin mixes were the norm. I honestly thought baking a boxed cake…
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Hey Emma! I know you’re in a big hurry in the morning. I am too. In fact, the entire family is usually rushing out the door to catch the bus or get to work on time. When I started grad school my diet seriously suffered. There just wasn’t enough time to focus on eating healthy. It was so much easier…
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Hey Emma! So I have a major obsession with cherry chocolate combinations. And these cherry cookies hit all the right notes. These pink almond dough bites are loaded with dried cherries soaked in almond emulsion until slightly plump and then combined with chopped maraschino cherries, sweetened coconut, filled with semi sweet chocolate chunks and finished off with a milk chocolate…
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Hey Emma! Kate asked for a birthday party this year to celebrate the beginning of her teenage years. Though we like to have parties every once in a while, she hasn’t had a birthday party in eight years so I wanted to make it extra special. She made a guest list and sent out the invitations and I got to…
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Hey Emma! Kate is 13! I can’t believe my baby is a teenager. I know it sounds cliche but it does really feel like my youngest was a wee babe just a few weeks ago. Boy, has it been a year of big change. I can’t say one event hurts any less than the others but this one currently…
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Hey Emma! The temperatures are still in the teens. I was hopeful this bizarre weather would continue and we would have Phoenix temperatures into the spring. But NO! Suddenly mother nature remembered it’s winter. It’s easy to fall into a funk in January. The days are grey and the air biting. I find it hard to stay motivated and can…
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