Spiriteds, WHAT IN THE ACTUAL WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING? Or not happening, as it were? Where is SPRING???? And if you’re a Midwesterner, you know how this weather is going to go down. We’ll be in the middle of a snowstorm on Wednesday and have 85-degree weather by Friday. I remember reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book The Long Winter as a child and thinking how fun it would be to cozy up indoors until May. Mom disagreed. What tomfoolery was I even trying to sell myself? Winter until May, Mom’s ... continue reading...

Spiriteds, we break from our regularly-scheduled food programming to bring you Sensory Play Activities for Children: Loose Parts. I’ve written about this before, and undoubtedly I’ll write about it again: Toodle and Twinkle are spirited children through and through. In fact, this spiritedness permeates our family (including Mom, The Gram, and Auntie) so much, it inspired the name for this blog. And channeling Toodle’s and Twinkle’s energy levels is a WHOLE THING in our house. In the event you ... continue reading...