Sweet Potato Casserole
This is a recipe that my mother and my grandmother both like to make on Thanksgiving and Christmas. At some point I took it over as the dish I make for family gatherings during the holidays. I’m not sure where it originated, but it’s one of my favorite holiday recipes. It is written in the back of a cookbook that I will not be taking with me in the divorce so I am recording it here. Ingredients 4 large sweet potatoes, boiled and mashed (approx. 3 cups cooked) 1/2 c. sugar 1/2 c. oil 2 eggs (beaten) 1 tsp vanilla 1/3 c. milk Topping

Percy Jackson Movie
Last year my boys and I started reading the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan. My boys and I love these books. If you have boys (or girls for that matter) ages 7-107 or you yourself love a good read that ties in Greek Mythology with the modern day world, then I highly recommend them to you. In fact, no one that I have recommended them too has been disappointed. We just finished The Last Olympian which may or may not be the final book in the series and I was actually bummed to think there might not be