Author: Laura Pence
Ikea Releases Their Swedish Meatball Recipe
A popular furniture company is revealing the recipe for one of its most iconic dishes. Ikea is dishing out the details…taking to twitter with instructions on how to make its Swedish meatballs. The retailer says home chefs will need just a few ingredients to whip up the classic dish and its sauce… including minced beef and pork, onion, cream and…
The ‘Sunday Drive’ is Making a Comeback
Families are dipping back into an old classic. Apparently, the ‘Sunday Drive’ is back. 60% of parents and 45% of non-parents say they’ve started taking long, leisurely Sunday Drives as an activity to get out of the house. The survey also found that 53% of moms and dads have hid in their car to get away from their their kids.
Woman Wows Neighbors With Front Porch Costumes
A woman in Virginia is getting creative with costumes and messages. She’s fighting cabin fever with a daily dose of pop-culture humor…right on her front porch! Her first character kicked off on March 30th and she’s portrayed a new one everyday since. Her idea’s typically come from the silver screen. Like Willie Wonka’s “don’t be blue” and Napoleon Dynamite’s “you…
Chick-fil-A Shares Recipes You Can Make With Their Menu Items
Chick-Fil-A is helping people reinvent meals using items from their menu. If you need some inspiration for new recipes, the restaurant has been posting short tutorial videos Monday through Saturday, on the chain’s Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest. They say they’re easy to make….just order from Chick-Fil-A through delivery, mobile orders, or hit the drive-thru, and the majority of the other…
Hallmark is Giving Away Thank You Cards
Hallmark is giving away two-million thank you cards! The company says it’s a way to help people share their appreciation of the heroes in their lives. Hallmark has a form on it’s website where people can request the free cards and they’ll send a three-pack to everyone who requests them until they run out. It’s available to people living in…
Stay at Home Orders Have Brought Families Closer Together
One silver lining to the coronavirus is that four out of five parents say quarantine has brought their family closer. Apparently that’s a side effect of being inside together, without activities or hanging out with other people. Half of families are spending more time playing games, doing puzzles, and reading together. One more finding is 90% of moms and dads…
The Most Difficult Things to Teach Children
A group of parents were asked to name the hardest skills to teach their kids. Here’s what they listed….tying their shoelaces, whistling, eating with a knife and fork, riding a bike, how to tell time, swimming, and another one was how to correctly brush their teeth.
Tomorrow is Husband Appreciation Day!
The day is observed on the third Saturday in April. The top things wives love about their husbands are when they’re supportive of goals, their intelligence, making them laugh, being a hard worker and being able to be themselves around them. 47% of women say their husbands have selective hearing and 1 out of 10 women want to be single…
Lies People Tell While in Quarantine
Now that people are staying home, they can’t claim to “have somewhere to be” when needing to get out of a conversation or say that “traffic was holding them up” when late to work. But, they can say these ones… “Sorry, I’m on a work call” is being used along with “I have another virtual call at that time.” Some…
