JanDee Crafts

I have been searching and looking and scavenging for the perfect tamale masa recipe for about 30 years and I think I have finally found it! My sweethearts family made tamales every new years eve. (this is how he remembers it) and I want my children to be involved in his history and family so I have been working and trying to find a great recipe for literally over 30 years. I hope this is close to his Grandma Dardanellas tamales. If you have any questions please reach out in the comments and I will do my best to answer you! ENJOY!  

  Hey friends! This is a real photo of our real Easter morning breakfast last year. Hence the paper plate. At some point it is mom and dads holiday too and we should get to relax some also.  Am I right? It isn't always going to be fine china and centerpieces at my house. HAHA! We lovingly call this dish egg gravy. I do believe the actual name is Eggs golden rod. We eat this delicious dish every Easter morning, and literally only Easter morning, with our newly boiled and dyed Easter eggs. This tradition comes from my cute husbands family and we recently discovered it has been eaten for potentially 7 generations back. This makes it all the more special for us! They add lots of spices beyond the salt and pepper we use, so feel free to make it your own and spice it up! 

  Hello! For the last 3 Christmas seasons my cute hubby and I have held what we call Christmas Camp. It is a day where the parents (our adult children and spouses) get to go have fun and do whatever they want, while Mimi and Papa and the Aunties (our Daughters who still live at home) have a day loaded with Christmas arts and crafts and activites. We have the kids from 10AM to 4 PM, and each year we've have a theme. The first year was "the Elf Academy" The second year we went with "The Polar Express" and the third year we did "Winter Wonderland"  This year when the children first arrived, we took pictures for the gift the kids would be giving to their mom and dad for Christmas. (it was a photo tree ornament) and then we read a book. This year it was Snowmen at Night. We also gave each of the kids a bag to keep all the items they would be making during the day.  Following the story we played with Sensory bins. This is always a popular activity! We found ...