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Happy Saint Patty’s Day

the mom-team — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:14:52 +0000

Come and visit mom-stuff.com where you don’t need to be Irish to enjoy the spirit of St. Patriclk’s day

St Patricks Day Decorations
May you live as long as you want, and never WANT as long as you live. “Irish toast” . . . keep reading

St Patrick’s Day Treat Bag
These are fast, easy and inexpensive for when you want to give something special to several people. . . . keep reading

St. Patrick’s Family Fun
Gather your clan and celebrate the spirit of the day with some Irish food because everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. On St. Patrick’s Day we can all FEEL IRISH!!! On St. Patrick’s Day you don’t have to be Irish to enjoy the spirit of the day. Every holiday is a good excuse to celebrate. Holidays are a good time to add some fun and enjoyment to your life. Celebrating each holiday is our way of celebrating life. It does help if you look good in green, believe in wee-folk and enjoy a bit of sausage and cabbage. . . . keep reading

St. Patrick’s Day Recipes
Gather you clan and celebrate with some Irish food because everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day! . . . keep reading

St. Patrick’s Day Kid’s Crafts
St. Patrick’s Kid’s Crafts . . . keep reading

St Patrick’s Day Scrapbooking
For this page I wanted to make a St Patrick’s page for the mom-stuff web site. I wanted it to use a picture of my grandson who I feel very lucky and blessed to have in my life. . . . keep reading

Only 2 Weeks Until Mother’s Day

the mom-team — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:48:13 +0000

Mother’s Day is a time of commemoration and celebration for Mom. It is a time of breakfast in bed, family gatherings, and crayon scribbled “I Love You’s.”

Mother’s Day is only 2 weeks away, with Easter being so late this year I thought I better warn you. There is not much time to get ready. Here are your mom-stuff links to help you with ideas. Mother’s Day will be celebrated on 08 May (in the U.S.). In the UK is celebrated on the 03 of April, 2011.

Mother’s Day Recipes
Recipes Handed down from Wonderful Mothers In the spirit of our Mother’s Day Tribute all of our recipes this month have a story of love and tradition. Each one reminds us of a person who made this special food for us. . . . keep reading

Kids Crafts for Mother’s Day Gift
Our society’s current financial circumstance is the perfect opportunity to shift our focus to what is really important in our lives. Focus on the people in our life this year on Mother’s Day. keep reading

Mother’s Day Tributes
A Mother’s love is something that no on can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away . . . . . . keep reading

From His Hands to Ours
This scrapbook page is the day my daughter became a mom and I became a grandma. The collection of pictures were the first time we each held her. I wanted to capture the joy of the family welcoming her in to our lives. . . . keep reading

Flower Ball For Mother’s Day
Beautiful, easy and INEXPENSIVE gift for Mother’s Day. . . . keep reading

I am still working on Teacher Appreciation Week. So if you have any great gift ideas you want to share, email them to me. dianne@mom-stuff.com

Mom-Stuff Helps You Get Ready for Easter

the mom-team — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:59:13 +0000

Mom-Stuff Team has been busy getting Easter ideas ready for you and your family fun. Easter this year is on April 24th so you only have 4 weeks to get ready.

Bunnys Easter Eggs

Bunnies made from Plastic Easter Eggs . . .

Our Easter Traditions
In our family uses every excuse to celebrate. Holidays are always fun with our family. While growing up as a little girl we always had picnics and Easter egg hunts. . .

Easter Recipes
Cupcake baskets and 10 ways to use up hard boiled eggs. .

Easter Kids Crafts
Easter is such a fun time for kids. Help them make some fun crafts. We have craft ideas for all ages. . .

History of Easter Traditions
Have you ever wondered how Easter traditions got their start the Easter bunny, coloring eggs, egg hunts, Easter lilies? What do these things have to do with the resurrection of Christ? I decided to find out. . .

Thanks to all of our new members. If you have not joined there is no catch totally free to join. We have decides to it is our goal to make the world a better place one mom at a time. Come over to mom-stuff.com and help us create a happy, supported and helpful place just for moms.

Let’s Begin 2011 on the Right Foot

the mom-team — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:57:12 +0000

Mom-Stuff.com Featured Resources to help you start 2011 on the right foot.

Tips to Help Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick
Setting New Year’s resolutions may be a time-honored tradition but unfortunately making last-minute vows during a champagne toast isn’t an effective approach. How can you ensure that you’ll stick with your goals beyond January 15th? You’ve got to make sure that your goals possess a “STICKINESS” factor. . . .

Setting Goals and Shaping your Future
Each year on the first of January, I take the time to reflect upon my goals from the previous year. I like to evaluate what I have accomplished, and review everything that has manifested throughout the year. It always makes me smile, how things have unfolded for the goals which had a strong enough WHY even if I did not really know at the time how I would get them accomplished…amazing how that works! . . .

Organizing For Taxes – For the Unorganized
My taxes are a mess, or rather doing them is. I run a small business to make it even worse, am I am semi organized at best. Today found me with a large pile or receipts for just about everything that needed to be organized and tallied and more . . .

To Sick for School?
Kids health questions. Is your kid to sick to send them to school. Parents can use the following symptom-based guidelines to help them decide whether to keep their child home or send them to school.

Recipe Overhaul
Do you have had a stack of recipes to go through each time you cook? Here is some great tips for recipe organization. I started with a spiral index card book in High school, then went onto a small ring binder for index cards, next was a small album with sheet protectors, and now I have FINALLY found a great strategy that works for me. Let’s go about this in 5 steps! . .

Entertaining with Ease this Christmas

the mom-team — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:23:13 +0000

This holiday season as you have guests drop by make your entertaining easy and fun. Studio 5 Contributor Terri Cook shares simple rules and recipes that will guarantee the guests have a good time…and you do to!

Prepare Ahead

Many delicious and impressive items can easily be prepared ahead of your event, hours or often even days. These bacon wrapped dates can easily be rolled and secured with toothpicks a day or two in advance if you have room in your refrigerator for storage. They can even all be placed in a zipper bag once you have them prepared. About an hour before your event (and before you get dressed in your wicked, knock-out, killer party clothes) bake them and set aside to cool. Recipe below.

Get your guests involved.

Most people arrive at an event and are looking for an opportunity to break the ice or get involved in the action. A good host will be able to identify those early arrivals or individuals that are seeking conversation and pull them into the kitchen and give them a simple but important assignment. Even as easy as “Will you please carry this out to the table for me?” offers that person an opportunity to help out as well as break into the party…They will be very popular when they emerge from the kitchen with delicious treats! This involvement can go as far as asking them to keep an eye on an item in the oven and let you know when the edges get golden brown or even get it out of the oven at a certain point. An example of this could be these VERY easy yet impressive sweet potato fries. (You will want to hide the package in your outdoor trashcan because they are delish and you can just smile and say “Thank you” when they are the hit of the party.)

Sweet Potato Fries

Shhhhh! Buy this bag in the freezer section of your grocery store and bake according to directions on a cookie sheet then sprinkle with sea salt.

A fun way to serve them is in cones made of fun scrapbooking paper or parchment paper tied with a ribbon and secured with hot glue or stapled into an easy hand-held carrier that requires nothing but a napkin.

Have some things on hand.

There are certain things I use in my everyday cooking that have become the “go-to” item for quick help when guest suddenly stop by. One of those items is Good Seasons Italian dressing. This dressing stays good in your refrigerator for a long time so make some up and have it on hand for everything from a great marinade for chicken to traditional dressing for a salad to a dip for a crusty bread with grated parmesan cheese, OR, when entertaining, try these great little items:

(I do have a twist for this. Make it with balsamic vinegar and olive oil rather than the traditional recipe on the box. )

Let People Serve Themselves

Your guests generally don’t expect you to wait on them. They came to visit you, right? I love to have a bag of ice in my outdoor freezer (this time of year that means my deck!). It’s easy to grab a variety of drinks, fill an ice bucket with drinks and ice and set it out for your guests to help themselves. They will feel more at home this way and they can get refills as desired. When beverages are handled this way, cups or glasses are optional but if you are having them I recommend an ice bucket full of ice separate from the drink bucket.

A little secret I’ve learned about arranging drinks in a bucket is to use some crumpled cellophane in the bottom, place the drinks where you want them then add the ice all around the drinks.

Bacon Wrapped Dates

Ingredients:
Pitted Dates
Center Cut Bacon
Toothpicks

Method:
Cut uncooked bacon into strips just long enough to wrap around the center of each date.
Wrap the bacon around the date and hold in place with a toothpick.
Bake at 450 degrees on the center rack of oven turning one time after 5 minutes.
Watch closely so they don’t burn.
Should be nice crispy bacon after 7-10 minutes.

Caprice Appetizer

Ingredients:
Short skewers
Fresh Basil Leaves
Fresh Grape Tomatoes
Fresh Mozzarella Cheese in Water
Italian Seasons Salad Dressing (mixed according to directions but substituting balsamic vinegar and olive oil for the vinegar and oil portions.)

Method:
Snip basil into strips
Load skewer with alternating tomato basil and cheese until desired amount is achieved then drizzle with balsamic-based Italian Seasons Dressing.
Serve Chilled

Maple Glazed Donuts

the mom-team — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:24:45 +0000

I can’t wait to make these after Thanksgiving. I am going to save some left over mashed potatoes for them. These are not the prettiest donuts but they are the best tasting and the easiest. These are fun to make with your kids.

Maple Glazed Donuts By: Erin Mylroie, Blogger at “Prudence Pennywise”

Video http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=204&sid=13255481

Ingredients:

2 eggs
2/3 cup sugar
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 tablespoons melted butter
1 cup mashed potatoes (I use 1 cup boiling water and 1/2 cup instant mashed potato flakes or buds)
4 and 1/2 cups flour, DIVIDED
2 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
pinch of nutmeg (two quick shakes)

Method:

In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat eggs until frothy. Add sugar and beat well. Add buttermilk butter, vanilla. Stir in mashed potatoes. Sprinkle exactly 3 and 1/2 cups flour, plus powder, soda, salt and nutmeg over the dough. Stir until just blended. The dough will be extremely sticky. Line a dinner plate with waxed paper. Sprinkle 1/2 cup flour on top of waxed paper. Gather sticky dough up and press onto waxed paper; sprinkle the top with remaining 1/2 cup flour. If you need to pat atop a little more flour to be able to work with the dough, go ahead and sprinkle/pat it on top but DO NOT mix it in. ( You can refrigerate dough for a couple of hours at this point if you want, but not for too long or the dough will turn black from the potatoes.) Let the dough rest on the plate for five minutes. Meanwhile, heat large heavy pot with 1 inch of oil until oil is about 375 degrees. Turn donuts out onto flat floured surface. Pat the dough into a square only slightly larger than the plate. The dough should be about 1/2 inch thick. (Do not knead in the flour that have you sprinkled on the donuts. It will cook away on the outside, promise.) Cut donuts with donut cutter, or use the top of a prescription pill bottle for donut holes. Holes are the best in my opinion. Fry donuts until pale golden brown, turning once. Drain on paper towels. Cool for five minutes before glazing.In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat eggs until frothy. Add sugar and beat well. Add buttermilk butter, vanilla. Stir in mashed potatoes. Sprinkle exactly 3 and 1/2 cups flour, plus powder, soda, salt and nutmeg over the dough. Stir until just blended. The dough will be extremely sticky. Line a dinner plate with waxed paper. Sprinkle 1/2 cup flour on top of waxed paper. Gather sticky dough up and press onto waxed paper; sprinkle the top with remaining 1/2 cup flour. If you need to pat atop a little more flour to be able to work with the dough, go ahead and sprinkle/pat it on top but DO NOT mix it in. ( You can refrigerate dough for a couple of hours at this point if you want, but not for too long or the dough will turn black from the potatoes.) Let the dough rest on the plate for five minutes. Meanwhile, heat large heavy pot with 1 inch of oil until oil is about 375 degrees. Turn donuts out onto flat floured surface. Pat the dough into a square only slightly larger than the plate. The dough should be about 1/2 inch thick. (Do not knead in the flour that have you sprinkled on the donuts. It will cook away on the outside, promise.) Cut donuts with donut cutter, or use the top of a prescription pill bottle for donut holes. Holes are the best in my opinion. Fry donuts until pale golden brown, turning once. Drain on paper towels. Cool for five minutes before glazing.

Maple Glaze
Notes: This makes enough for half a batch of donuts, in case you want to make some powdered sugar donuts or plain sugar.
Combine 2 cups powdered sugar, 2 teaspoons maple extract and about 4 tablespoons cream (or milk) until smooth.

www.prudencepennywise.blogspot.com

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

the mom-team — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:14:37 +0000

Love, Love, Love these cookies. Perfect fall goodie

1 15oz can Libby’s 100% pure pumpkin
2 tsp baking soda
mix in large bowl, then add:

2 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 cup oleo, softened (we use Imperial)
when this is well blended add:

4 cups flour
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp salt
Blend all well, then add:

12 oz chocolate chips, 2 cups raisins and (optional 2 cups pecans, chopped)

Place spoon sized batter on ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake at 375* for 10 minutes or until firm on top
don’t overbake

ENJOY!!!

Halloween is Coming

the mom-team — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:43:12 +0000

Mom-Stuff.com is getting ready for Halloween. It’s time to get your SPOOK on. Come and visit us for some inspiration. We have some more fun articles for Halloween fun to add so keep visiting through out the month.

Monster Halloween Invitations

Halloween Family Fun-How to plan an awesome Halloween Party

Halloween Games

Halloween Recipes

Halloween Kids Crafts

Wishing you and your family a happy safe Halloween

Better Than Sex Dessert

the mom-team — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:29:47 +0000

Better Than Sex Dessert (or Chocolate Supreme)

Ingredients:

1 c. flour 1 sq. softened margarine

½ c pecans

2 8 oz. cream cheese

1 c. powdered sugar

1 sm tub cool whip

1 lg box instant chocolate pudding

3 c. milk

Instructions:

Mix together flour, margarine, and pecans. Spread in 9X13 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Cool in refrigerator. Mix cream cheese, powdered sugar, and one cup cool whip. Spread mixture on top of cooled crust. Make pudding according to package directions. Spread on top of cream cheese mixture. After pudding has set up, spread the rest of cool whip on top and sprinkle additional chopped nuts on cool whip. Refrigerate.

Holiday Sugar Cookies

the mom-team — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:12:49 +0000

Sugar Cookie Recipe

There is nothing more fun than making sugar cookies with the kids to celebrate the holidays

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1 ½ cubes butter

2 c. sugar

1 c. milk

1 tsp. Baking powder

1 ½ tsp salt

1 ½ tsp vanilla

3 eggs

5 ½ c flour

1 tsp baking soda

Instructions

Cream butter, vanilla, and sugar together. Add eggs, beat well. Add milk and remaining ingredients; roll out on floured surface and cut with Christmas cookie cutters of your kids or your choice. Place on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 9 to 11 minute.

Patsy Hampton (Redmond 2^nd ward cook book) 2005.