fudgy cream cheese brownies

I believe in cream cheese.



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pan-seared salmon with lime and dill butter

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narnia at last!

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prince of persia

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connecting.

It snowed about a foot the day I took these pictures. Since we live in Utah, and school is almost never cancelled, just my four-year-old was home with me. We went out and rolled up a little snowman, which only stood about twenty minutes before it came crashing down into a pile of snow and polar fleece. Surprisingly, my little guy didn’t cry when the snowman fell, he just asked me to build a fort. Days like this make me wonder if I take enough time like this with my kids. They remind me of Nie Nie, actually, the woman I look to as the ultimate example of Motherhood. And then I don’t wonder if I spend enough time with my kids, I know that I don’t. I mean, I’m with them. Goodness, I with them all the time. But I’m not always really there. Not really. That’s the part I struggle with. Loneliness has been a constant companion for as long as I can remember. The empty ache I feel never seems to go away, and compels me to flee toward things like reading, blogging, or talking on the phone.



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my daughter

Several years ago, when I was squished between several other mothers and their toddlers on the couch at Sophie’s dance studio, I watched while eight little girls—some with chunky legs, some with knobbly knees—in varying shades of pink, practiced their pliés and pas de chats. All I could do was grin, and think, “If I had never had a girl, I would have never had a chance to see this.” She has been a blessing in my life.



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Jaime Richardson is the mom of three and author of Celebrate Every Day: Recipes to Make the Most of Special Moments with Your Family. She created the blog Sophistimom.com as a place to share recipes and ideas for teaching kids about art and literature. She is working on several novels. A week after she started writing for Momtastic, she eloped with her matching heart—a children’s book author and fellow foodie. She is currently finding balance in her life as a mom, writer, and wife.



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blueberry jam bars with a lemon glaze

I was watching a show about Ina Garten once, and she said that cooking well is about finding about twenty recipes that work well and that you love and then just varying those recipes again and again to make something new (or at least, that’s what I remember her saying).



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