Dear Friends,

I’ve had the best time writing for you since January 2009. I could never have predicted the amazing journey The Naptime Chef has been. Between two cookbooks, one new baby, and three separate kitchens life has been a fun, frantic, mysterious whirlwind and now it has brought me here. The Naptime Chef will be continuing, so don’t panic, but I’ve been working on a couple pet projects for a long time and now I am excited to share them with the world.

The first is The Little Snack Newsletter. I have a wonderful mailing list of readers and sending them only my own blog content doesn’t feel like enough anymore. So, I am starting this lifestyle newsletter for women 35+ that centers around food & wine, design, and travel. If you already subscribe to my newsletter you will get it. If you don’t, please sign up on the sidebar. There is a Cookbook Club and everything!

Update: I’ll be sharing links to the newsletters on this blog as they roll out so be sure to check here for newsletter content, too!

(Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Hood Cream. The opinions and photographs expressed are my own. Thank you for supporting the sponsors that make The Naptime Chef possible.)

Mother’s Day was a blast and now Father’s Day is right around the corner. I know these are both Hallmark holidays, but I do love them. In our house these small holidays are all about family time. It’s about gathering together for a special meal and taking time to enjoy each other’s company. That is something that is much harder to do these days with ours kids sports schedules! This year I partnered with Hood^® Cream to create a yummy egg casserole for my husband to enjoy on Father’s Day. It was a lot of fun thinking of all of his favorite flavors and coming up with a dish for him to enjoy!

Okay, truth time….

I talk a lot about food, and I certainly do my fair share of exercise, but I often shy away from sharing the not so sunny times that I encounter now and then. One of them is the occasional episode of… wait for it…heartburn. When I was writing this article I took an informal poll of my friends and they agreed, we all suffer from it from time to time. Between coffee, stress, wine, and more, it’s bound to crop up, especially when we least expect it.

I’ve never had heartburn like I did when I was pregnant, but I still get it on occasion. And today I am going to share my new favorite way of treating it: Omeprazole Orally Disingtegrating Tablets. I know, I know, swallowing a pill isn’t the worst. But, honestly, I vastly prefer these strawberry tablets because they dissolve right on my tongue and I don’t need to swallow a whole bottle of water to get it down. Let’s be honest: for a mom on-the-go that kind of convenience is magic.