New Look, Same Great Blog!

Welcome to our new look! If you have visited our site in the last couple of weeks you may have noticed some changes going on. We've been updating the look and feel of the site to make it easier to read and more fun to visit! We hope you like the changes. Feel free to comment and tell us what you think!

The site isn't the only thing that has been moving and shaking! If you follow us on social media you've seen that we been a busy crew. We've been in the kitchen cooking up a storm. We have created some great DIY projects. Our family has been out and about and sporting along. And yes, we even traveled to the Caribbean with a very famous mouse! Stay tuned for all the details. You know we love to share and can't keep a secret for long!

So as usual we invite you to visit often. We hope to keep the  love flowing. Don't forget to subscribe to our emails to stay up to date with all Midwest Family Food and Fun is up to!

Would you like more family fun activities, travel ideas, projects, recipes and more? Check out and follow Midwest Family Food and Fun on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+ and Bloglovin'!

Thank You Our Joyful Home

I want to thank Johanna at Our Joyful Home. She offered us an amazing opportunity for a sidebar ad on her blog for a month, We here at Midwest Family Food and Fun are so grateful for her kindness. She has such great blog about home, life, family and kids. We hope you take a moment to check her out! If you are a blogger or company in need of great advertising, try out her sponsorship program. You can click here for information.


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Let Me Introduce You to The Cookie Rookie

I have been saying how I have embraced the world of blogging. I truly appreciate the privilege of sharing with others and I have learned so much in such a short time. In my quest to become a better blogger, I have been reading a lot of blogs. I thought that I would start to share some of the great blogs that I love to read with everyone else. This is my first share.

Now Find Us on Bloglovin!

  Have you heard of Bloglovin?  Well if you are a lover of blogs, the answer is probably yes. If you only dabble in reading a blog here or there, maybe not. But once you've logged onto Bloglovin you will be hooked!

Bloglovin is a blog reader. What that means is it allows you to find and follow all your favorite blogs in one place! It gives you a feed of all their posts in one spot in an easy to read format. Don't follow a whole lot of blogs? Well Bloglovin will change that.  It makes it so easy you won't want to stop! So click here or on the badge in the right sidebar to find and follow Midwest Family Food and Fun using Bloglovin!

Now Posting on BlogHer

When I started this site it wasn't because of my fascination of blogging, but rather more as a way to document the time I spend with my family and create opportunities for fun activities. However, I have recently become very infatuated with this medium and all that it entails. I enjoy the freedom of expressing my thoughts and sharing my ideas with others. The experience has become very fulfilling. So much so that I have been looking for additional avenues to expand my blogging repertoire.

Do You Like Our New Look?

So I have been hard at work the last couple of days giving the site its long awaited update.  If you have had some issues accessing it, I apologize for any inconvenience, but I hope you like the new look! Some of the changes are merely cosmetic. A face lift if you will.  I've cleaned up some of the clutter to make it easier to read.  I also rearranged some of the info to make it easier to find us when you need us or want to share.

Edible Cleveland Making Northeast Ohio A Little Sweeter One Bite at a Time

Are you familiar with Edible Cleveland?  It is a wonderful print and digital publication highlighting all the must have food products and must visit food spots in Cleveland.  It is published quarterly and offers great inspirations to all levels of foodies who live, work or just play in the area.

I recently picked up my copy of the Summer 2014 publication. Immediately I found an article near and dear to my heart about blueberries. What a wonderful article by Karin McKenna about the Nabor Family, owners of the fabulous Mustard Seed Markets and Blueberry Hill Farm a certified organic pick your own blueberry farm in Glenmont, Ohio.

Included in the article was a recipe for Blueberry Almond Flour Muffins.  This recipe spoke to my newly required reduced carbohydrate diet.  As an added bonus to many they are gluten free.  I had to immediately try them!  My children like items made with nut flours but do not like chopped nuts in bakery so I substituted the chopped pecans for dried blueberries which added a very nice texture in the muffin.  These muffins were simply delicious!!

Have we sparked your interest in Edible Cleveland?  Want to get a copy for yourself?  Here is a link to their Summer 2014 Digital Edition.  Complimentary print copies can be found at many local Cleveland establishments which can be located here.  Paid print subscriptions are also available if you don't live in the area and want a print copy delivered directly to your home.

You can also stay informed with everything Edible Cleveland has to offer by following them on Edible Cleveland Facebook Page or on Twitter @edibleCleveland.  Let them know we sent you!

Help Us Become #1 on Top Mommy Blogs

Hey everyone we have some exciting news! We were just approved by Top Mommy Blogs!! We would like to become #1 so please vote for us. You can vote everyday and it's really easy. There will be a banner at the end of our posts and on the right sidebar. If you like us simply click it.  One click = one vote. You can vote once a day. So when you see a post you like please click on the Top Mommy Blog banner and show your support.

Happy Wives Club Blog Tour

Hi everyone. Just saw a Tweet about a new book soon to be released the Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage. That tweet led me to search out Fawn Weaver's site Happy Wives Club and ultimately to the inspiration to for the post the Happy Wives Club Blog Tour.

So visiting the site and reading about this book got me thinking about my marriage. Believe it or not my husband Steve does exist even though there really are not pictures of him on the blog. He is usually the man behind the camera (he prefers it that way). And while he supports me and the blog and takes part in most of our fun and sometimes unexpectedly outrageous activities, he prefers to remain behind the scenes enjoying the moments rather than memorializing them for the world to share.

Exploring Other Bloggers

In the last couple of weeks I have increased my focus back to the blog.  In doing so I realized that there are a lot of great blogs out there.  Sometimes we get so focused on ourselves we don't look at what is right in front of us.  I have come across a few really good blogs as I was trying to increase my twitter followers.  This got me exploring and wanting more.

So I have decide that while it is great to write about what we are doing and loving, I also wanted to start to spread the word about what others are doing.  I have started a list at the side of our blog that will scroll some of the latest stories of blogs I am currently following.  It by no means will be a complete list but it will rotate and give the most recent blog posts.  I hope you enjoy these posts as much as I do and will explore and follow some of them yourself.  If I find a blog that I am really loving I hope to feature it in a blog post.

Also I would love tips as to what blogs you are reading or writing that you think we should take a peek at. Please forward them my way either through my blog directly, via email, our Facebook Page and/or Twitter.