Today is St. Lucia day in Sweden: a beautiful, reverent celebration of light and salvation. Plus there’s food involved.
Continue readingSyv sort-of, 2020
Thirty Marens agree: it wasn’t the party it should have been, but neither was the whole year. We made some cookies anyway.
Continue readingIf 2020 was a slide
I learned this by having children: risk is what makes things fun. Playgrounds are fun because that’s where we can play with gravity within a limited degree of risk.
Continue reading2019 Primary Scripture Readings Bookmark
I was hoping someone else had already done this, but the internet said “no”. Continue reading
Homemade granola
This is the taste of my childhood. (Well, this and grape Tang, but that doesn’t exist anymore….) Continue reading
Sju slags / syv sorter 2017
Our favorite party of the year! Continue reading
Life in 3-D
As a child, it never would have occurred to me that life was anything but three-dimensional. Continue reading
Spicy Black Bean Burgers
While grocery shopping with my vegetarian daughter recently, we had a hard time finding our favorite black bean burgers at the store. There were other substitutes, but they just wouldn’t do. Finding the right food for a picky vegetarian teenager is dangerous territory, fraught with all kinds of emotional land mines. Wait a minute, how hard can it be to make them? We could even do it together. Continue reading
Breakfast Ideas, part 1
Oatmeal not cutting it anymore? Fed up with Life (cereal)? Burned out on toast? Thirty Marens agree that breakfast is good for you.
Syv sorter 2016: Seven kinds of Scandinavian Christmas butter cookies
We did it again! Cookie Day 2016 was a great success. Continue reading