Prep Your Car For Summer Fun With These 11 Useful Items

Summer is all fun and games until you’re at the beach and realize you forgot to bring the sunscreen, or you get caught in a thunderstorm and have no way to dry off. It’s important to be prepared for any situation. I live in a rural area so if I want to go anywhere or do anything it’s at least a 30 minute drive, so I really rely on having everything I need in my car with me. If you can’t keep these items in your car all the time, store them in a small backpack…

10 Roadtrip Games the Whole Family Will Love

If you’re looking for ways to keep the family entertained on your next road trip, why not try playing some classic car games? Here are some of my family’s favorites. I grew up in central Minnesota and my grandparents lived in Michigan. So each summer we would take the 12-16 hour drive to visit them. We would take I-94 down through Wisconsin till we met up with I-90 to go through Chicago. Sometimes we would stop in Wisconsin Dells and sneak into a hotel for a quick swim. This was the late 90…

Easy Christmas Cookie Recipe: Betty Crocker’s Snickerdoodles

My mom never made snickerdoodles when I was growing up. They just weren’t part of the rotation. We made a lot of chocolate chip cookies, and she loved making no-bake cookies. I’d occasionally eaten snickerdoodles, but they never really stood out to me. I’m trying to branch out more in my baking and cooking so I thought I’d give them a try. I loved making these. They were crazy easy and very delicious. This particular recipe requires Cream of Tartar which is impossible to find in grocery stores around the holiday…

How to Organize Your Passwords and Keep Them Secure

Every day it becomes more important that your information is secure on the internet. Secure passwords are pretty much the only thing protecting your personal accounts. If someone can figure out your password its that much easier for them to figure out your other passwords, or heaven forbid they get into your email where they can reset your other passwords preventing you from accessing your own accounts. Until recently I was still using the same password I came up with in middle school. That’s right, password, singular. Instead of creating new and different passwords I would just tack…

Easy April Fool’s Day Pranks to Try This Year

My mom cultivated a very trusting household right from the beginning. She hardly ever lied to us and if she did I never found out about it. She was also super into celebrating holidays. This meant April Fool’s Day became kind of a big deal. The pranks were always harmless, easily reversible, and the punchline came quickly. She never dragged it out till we got upset. She also knew we would turn the prank back around on her the next year. I find the funniest pranks are the simplest ones. A quick laugh that they will think about…