Best Soup Recipes For Families

Soup Roundup Collage

I don’t know many who are not fans of a nice warm bowl of soup. It’s so comforting and a meal all it’s own. I love that it’s easy to make and can be put in a crock pot in the morning to cook throughout the day or whipped up in under an hour in the evening. Soup is great for leftovers and most of the time tastes even better the next day.

Our family will often gather together for bread bowls and a variety of different soups. We try and choose soups that both the young and old will like and gobble up. In my search for different soups to try I’ve come across these that I think will fit the bill.

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Iron Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie

Iron Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookies

OK, you all! I have found my new favorite dessert! I’ve never been able to make a good chocolate chip cookie. For some reason no matter what I do they come out flat. Lately, I’ve been putting my dough in an iron skillet and baking it that way and WOW! The crispy and melt in your mouth goodness can’t be defined. The chocolate chips kind of settle towards the bottom of the pan and the cookie dough crisps on the top and is soft and scrumptious underneath. The skillet is the secret, plus the huge bonus is that it’s so easy. No having to bake multiple cookie sheets full of cookies. Here’s my recipe:

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Our Top Posts of 2015

Our Top Posts of 2015

Whew! 2015 flew by for me. Did it for you, too?

I’ve been taking some time to do a thorough review of my life including my accomplishments and what I need to improve on. I’ve been writing down some things I want to accomplish and have come up with my word of the year which is “Grow”. I really want to stretch myself in 2016. I don’t want to see little accomplishments; I want to see big things happen this year in all aspects of my life. I hope I can do it!

One thing I’m proud of and want to see “grow” is our blog. It is so fun to go back through our posts and to see what others have found useful. So, for ourselves and for you we want to do a review of some of our best posts. Our most popular posts from 2014 continue to do really well. Follow this link to read about those.

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Santa Stop Here

This is a easy and fun little craft idea for the kiddos in  your life. If you’re like us you’re always trying to find cute ideas for them to make at a party or while they’re home on Christmas break. As you know those low attention spans can drive you crazy, but if you’re prepared with things like this life is much more fun. This Santa Stop Here sign will really get them excited.

To make sure that Santa stops at our homes we had to make these quick signs to hang in the window so he knows for sure where we live. 😉 Wouldn’t it be awful if he got lost?

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