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June 17, 2013
The Benefit of Taking a Few Steps Back…And a Breath
The following post is from Krystal of Krystal Griffin Photography:
Source: Krystal Griffin Photography
I want to talk to you today about an important component in taking authentic photographs. What I mean by authentic is an image that shows a true expression and posture, an authentic representation of the individual.
We often tend to bring the energy level up when we are photographing an individual. We raise our volume level, speed of speech and how much we talk. When you want an image bursting with energy this may be a good idea. But when you are looking for an expression that is iconic to that individual, it may be best to take a few steps back, take a deep breath and relax.
Let me explain in more detail.
source: Krystal Griffin Photography
Take a few steps back.
Sometimes we need to remove ourselves from our subject’s space. Taking a few steps back will allow them to relax and be in a more introspective, neutral state of mind. You may have to crop the photo because you stepped so far back, that’s ok! Give them some space, and you will see a change in their expression.
source: Krystal Griffin Photography
Take breath and let them take one too.
While you take a moment or two, tell your subject to sit and relax, take a deep breath and “chill out”. While this sounds a little odd, the next few details explain how this will flow.
source: Krystal Griffin Photography
Stay quiet and calm.
Using a calm, low tone of voice goes a long way in setting the relax atmosphere you are after. You don’t need to chatter the whole time. If they are looking for direction, just explain that you are fiddling with some camera settings.
source: Krystal Griffin Photography
Watch and wait.
At some point you might tweak their pose and ask them to look in your direction. But continue with your reminders to relax, explaining that you are adjusting a few things. By this point I’m sure your camera is well adjusted, but the point in telling them this is so that they don’t feel uncomfortable under your watchful eye.
Here comes the important part, the part we have been working up to – just watch and wait. Just wait. And carefully watch for it! Snap a few frames if you think looking busy will add to their comfort level. But as long as your subject isn’t getting impatient just wait until you get that authentic moment. Trust me; you’ll know it when you see it.
Authentic photographs are often some of our favorites.
What is one of your favorite photographs? Or better yet, show us in the comments!
Krystal is a stay-at-home mom of four children, ages 4-9, whom she homeschools. She is acutely aware of how fast her children are changing and is passionate about keeping family memories alive through photographs. Now and then she gets to help other families’ bottle up their own memories at Krystal Griffin Photography.
The Benefit of Taking a Few Steps Back…And a Breath
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June 15, 2013
Weekend Reading: June 15, 2013
source: Mandi Ehman
We had the craziest weather this week — hot and humid one day, cool and rainy the next, and a series of thunderstorms on Thursday, followed by this gorgeous sunset. Welcome to summer, I guess!
Today we’re off to spend the day at my dad’s, swimming and barbecuing and just generally enjoying Father’s Day weekend. The girls are excited to have a chance to practice their swimming skills (they haven’t been in the month since we’ve been back from Florida), and I’m looking forward to sitting in the sunshine without a to-do list!
Here are some of my favorite posts from this week. As always, check out what I’m reading to see the other posts that make me stop and think. You’ll find new posts all week long!
Family {Fun in the Sun}
10 Tips For Traveling With Your Kids This Summer | Inspired to Action
More Ideas for Simplifying Travel with Young Kids | The Minimalist Mom
Our Summer: A Little Chaos, A Little Structure | Simple Mom
Work {Blogging as a Business}
Why I Think You Should Break the Blogging Rules | Money Saving Mom
How I Generate a Full-Time Income Online | Andrea Dekker
The First Step in Getting Started as a Work-at-Home Mom? Decide. | The Happiest Home
Food {Summer Treats}
Peach Cobbler | My Blessed Life
Homemade Fudge Pops | 100 Days of Real Food
Strawberry Swirl Frozen Yogurt | Good Life {Eats}
And because I can always use more justification for my, ahem, habit, This Is Your Brain on Coffee!
Have a great weekend!
Mandi Ehman is the blogger behind Life Your Way. She and her husband have four beautiful girls plus one baby boy on the way, and together, they live, work and homeschool on a little slice of heaven in wild, wonderful West Virginia. She loves coffee, chocolate, easy meals, beautiful things and minimalist spaces.
Weekend Reading: June 15, 2013
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June 14, 2013
*New* Printable 2014 Calendars
The 2014 printable calendars weren’t actually on my radar yet, but I’ve had quite a few people who must be planning ahead who have requested them, so here they are!
As a bonus, you can now save any text you type into these printables on your computer, and we’re working on updating the rest of the collection as well.
Click the links below to download or print each printable:
2014 full-page calendars
2014 one-page calendar
2014 half-sheet calendars
Watch for more new home management printables in the coming weeks as well!
Mandi Ehman is the blogger behind Life Your Way. She and her husband have four beautiful girls plus one baby boy on the way, and together, they live, work and homeschool on a little slice of heaven in wild, wonderful West Virginia. She loves coffee, chocolate, easy meals, beautiful things and minimalist spaces.
*New* Printable 2014 Calendars
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What Independent Work Looks Like in Our Homeschool
source: Mandi Ehman
I’ve talked a lot about our move to “independent work” with the girls as I described our curriculum plans for the upcoming year and our reasons for schooling year-round, and truly, I can’t describe how much of a difference this has made for us. Instead of always feeling overwhelmed and like I was dropping the ball on school or work (or school and work), I actually enjoy homeschooling now and spend most days in awe of these girls and their hard work as they move through their list of subjects each morning.
Truthfully, this is not the kind of homeschooler I thought I’d be. I imagined days filled with unit studies and hands-on activities and dioramas rather than notebooks and workbooks and memorization (partly born from my own Montessori education and partly from the numerous warnings that homeschooling doesn’t have to mean “school at home”), but as we’ve embraced the classical education model and the necessity of having them work independently, we’ve found something that actually works really well for us.
To the point that my 8-year-old, who spent the first half of the year with double assignments as a consequence for complaining, randomly remarked to me that she “really liked school now” three or four weeks after we made the shift. And she still feels that way six months later!
While I’d love to be one of those moms who makes learning fun, I’m not convinced it’s necessary. School currently takes about 3 hours each morning (and we’ll likely add an extra hour in the afternoon when we add CC memory work back in in the fall) and I’ve found that this approach means that they can sit and work hard at school in the morning and then spend their afternoon building forts and pioneer stoves and booby traps, or sewing dresses for their dolls, creating murals and putting on plays.
And that’s how we blend classical and unschooling models in our home. School is rigorous and actual work, not work disguised as play (although it’s still fun sometimes!), and play is unstructured and free. For us, that works.
source: Mandi Ehman
So, back to independent learning…
When I first realized that we were going to need to move to this model, we simply began by having them complete a certain number of pages in their Explode the Code workbook first thing each morning. We encourage them to ask for help, which they often do, but the responsibility for getting it done is theirs alone. (As a side note, we frequently have to remind our kindergartener to slow down and wait for one of us because she’d happily work on reading and math independently like her big sisters, but she’s not to the point where we’re ready to turn her loose just yet!)
Shortly after that move, we switched from Singapore to Teaching Textbooks for math, which also made that an independent learning subject, since the teacher comes with the program (woohoo!). While our original intention had simply been to remove my husband and I from the equation because it was causing so many fights with our oldest, adding it to their independent workload kind of sparked an avalanche, and we slowly began adding another subject every week or two, tweaking it as we went.
While they’re free to work in any order, their list of independent subjects now looks like this:
reading workbook + reading for 20 minutes
math
daily copywork (3-4 sentences from a book they’re reading)
handwriting
Bible
piano
daily journal
geography (we added this workbook recently because I love the progression of map skills it teaches)
CC memory work (on break for summer)
We just decided on the Song School Latin 1 program for our foreign language, so all four girls will sit and watch those DVD lessons and listen to the song CD together, and then the big girls will have worksheets to go with the lessons.
In the fall, we’ll be adding history & science worksheets to coincide with their weekly memory work as well. My desire is to create a format that prompts them to read more about the current topic, summarize their thoughts, draw a picture, etc., but we’re still working through what that will look like. I want the worksheets to serve as a support for their research and reading, not to be the focus or end goal, if that makes sense.
source: Mandi Ehman
Typically, Sean and I are both in the room with the girls during school (our house is an open floor plan, so the kitchen/family room is basically one big room), both to answer questions and to help them stay on track (they are, after all, still kids!).
When they finish up their list of subjects, usually between 11 and 11:30, I then sit down to read out loud to everybody for about 30 minutes. The big girls and I then read a chapter of Life of Fred and do math drills together and then do our language arts lessons (which is my favorite part of the day and not really a subject I’d want to give up teaching even if I could find a good independent work model!).
I’m enjoying this approach to school not only because it frees up my time for work, which in turn gives me more time for preparing healthy meals, spending time with my husband and teaching the girls to cook (which they’re fairly enthusiastic about right now), but also because of the life lessons built in. They’re learning time management and self-discipline, how to stay on task, that work comes before play and that they control how long they have to work based on how well they focus.
Do I think it’s the only way to homeschool? Absolutely not. It’s just the one that’s working best for us right now!
Do you incorporate independent work into your homeschool?
Mandi Ehman is the blogger behind Life Your Way. She and her husband have four beautiful girls plus one baby boy on the way, and together, they live, work and homeschool on a little slice of heaven in wild, wonderful West Virginia. She loves coffee, chocolate, easy meals, beautiful things and minimalist spaces.
What Independent Work Looks Like in Our Homeschool
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June 13, 2013
A Few Shots from the June Photo Hunt
source: Krystal Griffin
Are you participating in the June Photo Hunt?
Krystal has created a list of June-themed items — like ladybugs and rain, baseballs and sprinklers — for you and your family to hunt for and capture with your camera this month.
source: Krystal Griffin
She’s using the opportunity to help her kids improve their photography skills, and I think you’ll agree that these photos — all of which were taken by them — are phenomenal!
source: Krystal Griffin
In our house, we’re using the hunt as a fun activity to keep away the summer boredom blues, without worrying too much about actual photography skills. If you have multiple cameras or iPhones/iPods, you could even do it scavenger hunt style and see who can capture pictures of the most items in an hour.
Download the photo hunt image or printable here.
source: Krystal Griffin
And if your kids are still very little, Erin has also created a pre-reader edition of the list with icons for 25 of the hunt items!
source: Krystal Griffin
It’s not too late to work on June’s photo hunt, and we’ll have a brand new list for you to kick off July!
Are you participating in the photo hunt? Be sure to leave the links to your post or favorite photo in the comments!
A Few Shots from the June Photo Hunt
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Yes, You Do Like Gluten-Free Food
The following post is from Amy of Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free:
source: Amy Green
You do like gluten-free food.
Maybe you don’t eat a gluten-free diet. Maybe you can eat absolutely anything you want. And, maybe, just maybe you’ve decided that gluten-free food is not for you.
One of the most common responses I get when someone finds out that I eat a gluten-free diet is something like, “Oh. I tried something gluten-free once and it was disgusting.”
I can’t say I don’t agree with them. I’ve eaten gluten-free food that’s not fit for consumption. I’ve also eaten wheat-based food that’s just as unappealing. So, when someone tells me that they don’t like gluten-free food I know that they don’t really understand the meaning of gluten-free.
Just because there’s one or two gluten-free foods you’ve tried that you don’t like doesn’t mean all gluten-free food is bad. Ask anyone who’s shared a meal with my family. They’ll tell you that you really want an invitation to dinner at our house.
And, in all honesty, if everyone ate more of these foods America wouldn’t have a 26.2% obesity rate.
Here are some foods you’ve probably eaten in the last week that are completely gluten-free. Not only are they healthy, but I’m sure you like most of them, too.
Fruits and Vegetables
Totally gluten-free and full of nutrients, fresh produce is something our family can never get enough of. My 15 month old, Nate, loves all types of fruits and veggies. He’d rather eat an orange than a cookie. We buy organic whenever possible. Here’s a free printable guide to help you determine which items to buy organic.
Try this Simple Berry Salad, Mango Pineapple Smoothie Pops, or try adding seasonal fruit to your salads.
Beans
Beans work their way into our meals several times a week at least. They’re frugal, easy to prepare, and packed with nutrition. We live in Texas, where there are incredible Tex-Mex restaurants. It’s usually simple to find a gluten-free meal and, of course, I always love their use of beans.
Try beans as a healthy toddler snack, learn how to quickly incorporate beans into your meals, or whip up this incredible Brownie Batter Dip. Yep, it’s made with beans!
Eggs
Eggs are versatile and easy to prepare. You can eat them any time of day and they can often be prepared in no time flat. We have breakfast for dinner at least a few times a month. It’s one of those meals you can prep ahead of time and get on the table quickly.
Tired of plain scrambled eggs? Try dressing them up! Or, make protein-packed breakfast pancakes or this incredible egg strada with mushrooms, spinach, and cheese.
Dairy
While dairy is gluten-free, when it’s processed into other foods, such as some ice creams and cheeses it can have gluten added to it. It’s important to always read labels. Greek yogurt is a great snack that’s also high in protein.
Try frothing your own milk with no special equipment for a homemade latte. Or, make your own Buttermilk Dill Ranch Dressing.
Grains and Seeds
While some grains like farro, wheat, spelt, and kamut are not gluten-free there are so many tasty gluten-free grains you can choose from. Some of my favorites include wild rice, brown rice, quinoa, millet, and buckwheat.
If you’re like me and are prone to forgetting that you have a pot of rice on the stove top and it boils over every single time, try baking it instead. Or, try this simple beans and rice dish for a fast weeknight meal.
What gluten-free foods have you been eating lately?
A stay-at-home mom, wife, and passionate cook, Amy strives to make each meal healthy and delicious. When she’s not doing laundry, dishes, or caring for her son, she plays around with food in the kitchen developing new recipes, which she shares at Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free. Amy also publishes The Balanced Platter and authored the book Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free: 180 Easy & Delicious Recipes You Can Make in 20 Minutes or Less.
Yes, You Do Like Gluten-Free Food
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3 Steps to Get Your Car Ready for Summer
source: Mandi Ehman
Summer is here! For us, that means more time in the car running to and from play dates and park days, visiting semi-local family and friends and taking mini-vacations.
Which means it’s time for a car checkup, because the last thing I want to do is get stuck on the side of the road somewhere on a hot and sticky day with four tired girls!
Here are three ways you can prepare your car for summer:
1. Check your tire pressure & wear, fluid levels, etc.
The change of the seasons is a good time for routine maintenance, like checking your tires, fluid levels, etc.
To check your tire pressure, first refer to your owner’s manual for the recommended tire pressure for your car. Then, use a tire gauge (if you don’t have one, many gas station air pumps have one built in) to check the air pressure. If it’s too low, add more air; too high, let some out. Recheck the pressure until it’s within the recommended range.
Then, visually check the wear on your tires. The tread should be evenly worn across each tire; uneven wear can indicate poorly aligned or imbalanced tires or improper pressure.
In addition to checking your tire pressure and wear before you head out for road trips or vacation, be sure to check the wiper fluid, engine oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid and power steering fluid levels. Or schedule a tune up at your favorite shop and ask them to check them for you!
2. Wash and wax it, inside and out.
It never ceases to amaze me how very many bugs end up meeting an untimely death on the front of our car. Take some time now to wash and wax your car to prevent those bugs from becoming a permanent part of the paint scheme! Not only will it look spiffy, but cleaning off the bugs and grime from your adventures will be easier as well.
Cleaning the inside of our van often feels even more futile than cleaning the house, but now is a great time to vacuum up crumbs, unstick any melted gum or crayons, clean the finger (and toe!) prints off the windows and check hidden compartments for buried treasure. Hint: stock the compartments with plastic grocery bags for collecting trash instead!
3. Clean out any winter gear and replace with summer gear.
In the winter, you’ll find blankets, coats, ice scrapers and more loaded into the back of our van, but when the weather starts to warm up, I can’t wait to put away the signs of cold weather and pull out our summer gear instead, which often includes an extra tube of sunscreen, a gallon of water, a picnic blanket and random pool gear.
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This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Hankook Tires. The opinions and text are all mine.
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3 Steps to Get Your Car Ready for Summer
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June 12, 2013
Fighting My Octopi-Like Tendencies
I’d rather not admit this out loud (I might ruin my perfect reputation — ha!), but I’ve spent the last 6+ months feeling very scattered.
While I thrive on keeping multiple balls in the air at once, I felt like my balls were all rolling around on the floor instead of gliding gracefully through the air, and I just couldn’t seem to get on top of anything, let alone everything. And when the first trimester morning sickness and exhaustion hit…well, then they all started to roll downhill, with me chasing frantically after them.
I’ve actually dealt with something similar several times — a kind of chronic exhaustion and fatigue that left me unable to focus — but I had learned to address those physical symptoms with vitamin D supplements and apple cider vinegar water, and this time it just felt like I’d lost my ability to manage my time and get things done.
Thankfully, my morning sickness and exhaustion began to fade just in time for our trip to Florida at the beginning of May, and even in the midst of family fun, relaxation and Disney, I was anxious to get home and get back to work, which felt good after a few months of dreading my work responsibilities.
When we got back, I mentioned to some friends that I needed to move back to a handwritten to-do list because using various apps and documents just wasn’t working, and the resounding response was, “YES! I need to do this too!”
Within hours of making that commitment (but before I’d actually taken the time to get off my tush and go find my notebook and write my list!), I came across this quote by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., which perfectly sums up everything I had been feeling:
Talent without discipline
is like an octopus on roller skates.
There’s plenty of movement,
but you never know if it’s going to be
forward, backwards, or sideways.
I can’t even describe the epiphany I had when I read those words. Despite the somewhat hilarious word picture they paint, I felt as if it had been written while watching me flail around for the past 6 months!
So I got out my notebook and did a huge brain dump, and then I began making to-do lists. Long-term to-do lists, monthly to-do lists (focusing on just one major project at a time), realistic weekly to-do lists and daily to-do lists to keep me on track. (The key for me, in addition to actually making the lists, is to keep my notebook open next to me so that there’s no ignoring it!)
It’s been about five weeks since I rediscovered my handy notebook, and I can honestly say it’s made a difference. I’m getting things done, checking off projects and feeling more productive in general. And that is a good feeling!
Do you have octopi-like tendencies? Does keeping a written to-do list help you stay on track?
Mandi Ehman is the blogger behind Life Your Way. She and her husband have four beautiful girls plus one baby boy on the way, and together, they live, work and homeschool on a little slice of heaven in wild, wonderful West Virginia. She loves coffee, chocolate, easy meals, beautiful things and minimalist spaces.
Fighting My Octopi-Like Tendencies
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Setting Up a Summer Learning Schedule
The following post is from Jennifer, a lifelong educator:
See all of the Homework Helps posts here.
I can hear it now…“A schedule?!? But, Mom, it’s summer!” While some homeschoolers school year-round, most kids aren’t overjoyed about doing school work during vacation, but if you set up a routine that works around their anticipated play times, you’ll encourage cooperation and help your children fine tune their academics over the next couple of months.
source: donkeycart
Doing just 30 minutes of math right after breakfast or lunch works for many people; “tying” the work to a regular meal makes it less likely that you’ll forget. You could break that time into two 15 minute slots, but most children are capable of focusing and working for a 30 minute period. You can find lots of math sites on the internet, or education stores and bookstores can supply you with workbooks, if you prefer that approach.
Unless you are or know a teacher, it can be hard to determine what your child should be working on, so here are some suggestions, based on many states’ Common Core Standard:
If your child is going into 1st grade:
Sort objects into groups
Compare items based on length, weight, and size
Tell time to the nearest hour
Name the days of the week
Write and name numbers to 30
Add and subtract numbers to 10
If your child is going into 2nd grade:
Count, read, and write numbers to 100
Compare numbers using <, >, or =
Count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
Add three one-digit numbers
Name and count coins
Tell time to the hour and half hour (analog and digital)
Read a calendar
Add and subtract numbers up to 20
If your child is going into 3rd grade:
Count, read, and write numbers to 1,000
Do mental addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers
Show multiplication with pictures, counting, and arrays
Recognize and name fractions of ¼, 1/3, and ½.
Measure to the nearest inch and centimeter
Know how many hours have passed from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Recognize, describe and predict patterns
Identify faces, edges and vertices on geometric shapes
If your child is going into 4th grade:
Count, read, write, and round numbers to 10,000
Add and subtract whole numbers to 10,000
Know multiplication tables to 10
Add and subtract simple fractions
Add, subtract, multiply and divide money using decimals
Identify, describe and classify common three-dimensional shapes
Tell whether common events are certain, likely, unlikely or impossible
Estimate to determine if an answer is reasonable
If your child is going into 5th grade:
Read and write number to millions
Order whole numbers and two place decimals
Write a fraction when looking at a divided drawing
Multiply multi-digits by two digit numbers
Divide multi-digits by a one digit number
Determine the area and perimeter of measured shapes
Draw points on a graph (y=3x)
Identify the radius and diameter of a circle
Apply strategies to complex problems
If your child is going into 6th grade:
Round very large and very small numbers
Determine prime factors of numbers to 50
Order decimals, fractions, and positive and negative numbers
Multiply and divide fractions
Evaluate simple algebraic equations
Compute mean, median and mode
Know when and how to break problems into parts
Identify and graph ordered pairs
Compare data sets with fractions and percentages
This is by no means an exhaustive list. With our nation’s increased emphasis on math, the pressure is on for students to solidify their skills early. Thirty minutes a day, five days a week for 10 weeks gives them twenty-five hours of math practice. I believe it’s time well spent!
What do you do to encourage your children to stay sharp with their skills during the summer?
Jennifer is passionate about children and education. She homeschooled her two sons for five years, established and directed a Christian school in Maryland for almost 20 years, and currently teaches in a public school in a Chicago suburb. She loves investing in relationships and delights in every moment that she spends with her family.
Setting Up a Summer Learning Schedule
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June 11, 2013
More Than a S’more {Easy Oven-Broiled S’mores + 104 S’more Variations!}
source: Mandi Ehman
I have a slight love affair going on with s’mores. Truly, I think toasted marshmallows (I like mine toasted till they’re almost scorched!) is pretty much perfection all by itself, but I also love the classic combination of toasted marshmallows, chocolate and graham crackers!
With the advent of Pinterest, I realized that there are literally hundreds of s’more variations and s’more-flavored recipes out there, and last year I began collecting them on my More Than a S’more board, never guessing that I’d end up with 150+ pins (and counting!).
My favorite way to make a s’more is the simple oven s’more: Lay out your graham crackers, top with a square of chocolate and a marshmallow and slide under the broiler until the marshmallow browns (and gets really puffy!). Top with a second graham cracker and enjoy every sticky bite!
But if you’re looking for another fun way to incorporate s’mores into your next dessert (or breakfast!), be sure to check out this list of ideas. I’ve double checked every link to be sure you can find an actual recipe (something I don’t always do when repinning something on Pinterest), and tried my best to categorize them in a way that makes sense (although deciding where to put some of these made my head spin!).
Personally, the Summery S’more Treats from Shopgirl are at the top of my must-try list. Going to make these for a fun treat next week, I think!
Enjoy!
S’more Variations
Chocolate Graham Cracker Nutella S’mores
Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookie Peanut Butter S’mores
S’mores Chocolate Whoopie Pies
Black and White S’mores Cookies
Chocolate Fudge S’mores Thumbprints
Chocolate Cake S’mores Cookies
Bars
No Bake Peanut Butter S’mores Bars
No Bake Peanut Butter S’mores Squares
Peanut Butter Cup S’mores Bars
White Chocolate S’mores Gooey Cake Bars
Brownies
Pies
Cupcakes
Toasted Marshmallow S’mores Cupcakes
S’mores Cupcakes with Graham Cracker Crusts
Chocolate Ganache S’more Cupcakes
Cakes
5 Minute Chocolate Fudge S’mores Mug Cake
Snacks
Sunny’s Crunchy Peanut Butter S’more Bites
Candy & Treats
On a Stick
Breads & Rolls
Dips & Fondue
Ice Cream
Toasted S’more Chocolate Fudge Ice Cream
S’mores Cupcake Ice Cream Sandwiches
Frozen Desserts
Breakfast(ish)
Pastries
Peanut Butter S’mores Turnovers
Are you a fan of the s’more? Which of these recipes do you want to try most?
Mandi Ehman is the founder and publisher behind Life Your Way and the co-author of All in Good Time, as well as a wife and the homeschooling mom to four beautiful girls. She lives with her family on a little slice of heaven in wild, wonderful West Virginia and loves coffee, chocolate, easy meals, beautiful things and minimalist spaces.
More Than a S’more {Easy Oven-Broiled S’mores + 104 S’more Variations!}
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