Category: Homemaking

• Sweet Bretzels: The cookie that almost beat me

  By now all of you know how much I love to bake. It’s calming and therapeutic for me to cream together butter and sugar with eggs and then mix in flour to form any number of cookies or cakes. I get it from my mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. My DNA isn’t pairs of ATGC like…

  Mindy Carlson

  May 24, 2015

  Food, Homemaking

  Alsace, Alsatian, baking, Bretzel, cinnamon and sugar cookies, English Biscuits, Sweet Bretzel, sweet bretzel recipe, tea biscuits, The Great British Bake Off, The Swiss Family Carlson

• Free Range Parenting

  I’ve had three friends forward me a story that appeared in The Washington Post on January 14, 2015, asking me to comment on it.  It’s a story about how two parents in Montgomery County are under investigation for letting their children go out by themselves.  Specifically, they are being investigated by CPS for neglect because…

  Mindy Carlson

  January 16, 2015

  Homemaking, Kids

  free range parenting, free-range, Gen-X parenting, latch key, parenting, parents investigated for neglect for letting children walk home alone

• Holiday Giving

  When I was growing up our church had a Christmas Need Tree. It was a basic Christmas tree with little paper ornaments all over it. Each ornament had a request for a gift or two from a family or person who couldn’t afford Christmas gifts that year. My Mom always had my brother and I…

  Mindy Carlson

  December 18, 2014

  Homemaking, Kids

  Charitable Giving, Gift Ideas, Heifer International, Holiday Giving, The Bloggess