We have two pretty solid Mother’s Day traditions at our house. (Neither of them involves spending much money!)
One tradition is that we take the pictures of our boys beside the peach tree that we planted a few years ago. Each year, it is super fun to see how much the tree has grown and how much the boys have grown. We then email these pictures to all of the special women in our lives for Mother’s Day. I LOVE looking back at these pictures!
The second tradition is that I get the day off from cooking. :)
And I get to choose what we’re eating! (okay…I do that EVERY day…)
I absolutely NEVER want to eat out on Mother’s Day. I find the restaurants overflowing and stressful…and that is not a treat for me.
So Daddy and the boys put on their aprons (not really) and cook for mama. I LOVE it!!
You can read about the Mother’s Day Muffins they’ll be making here. And for lunch…they’ll be making steak on the grill, baked potatoes, veggies and cheesecake.
Here’s the cheesecake they’ll be making for me (and YES, we’re compromising a bit and by eating processed sugar and graham crackers from a box. I know…you must be absolutely shocked!) :)
Simple Cheesecake
2 pkgs graham crackers
2 sticks butter
¼ cup sugar
2 – 8 oz. pkgs. cream cheese, softened
2 cups powdered sugar
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1 t. vanilla
In a gallon sized Ziploc bag, crush graham crackers with a rolling pin. Melt butter in a small saucepan. Pour crushed graham crackers, melted butter and sugar into a 9 x 13 inch pan. Stir ingredients together and pat it down to create crust. Set aside.
In a medium sized bowl, stir together cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla. In a large bowl, whip the cream until soft peaks form. Add cream cheese mixture to whipped cream and fold in gently. Smooth mixture over the crust. Chill for at least two hours.
This cheesecake is super simple to make…which means the boys can do it entirely by themselves!
The boys LOVE crushing up the graham crackers in the baggie. It IS permission to BREAK something after all! (Oh, and don’t you just LOVE Malachi’s outfit in this picture? He chose it himself…) :)
Okay, and I always do pour the vanilla myself for them. It’s organic, and it’s pricey, and I’m afraid they’d accidentally pour in the entire bottle. Just the control freak in me coming out while they make MY cheesecake… ;)
I love this Mother’s Day tradition…and so do Daddy and the boys! They look forward to it as much as I do!
I’d love to hear about any Mother’s Day traditions you have!! What special things are YOU looking forward to this weekend?!
[tags]Mother’s Day, Kids in the Kitchen, Cheesecake[/tags]
Ooooh! I love your Mother’s Day Traditional Cheesecake. I’m gonna steal it. Just thought you’d wanna know.
Yummy! This sounds soooo good! But after the evening I had with processed sugars & my blood sugar dropping super low- I’ll have to wait a while until I try this one… But is sounds soooooooo very yummy… :-)
Do them youngens give classes?
I’ve got 5 boys and 1 girl that they can come and teach how to do this!!!!;-)
Seriously, that’s so sweet! Great job training those boys Mom!
And Malachi looks just fine to me, but you should see some stuff my little girl puts on…do you know who Miss Frizzle is on the Magic School Bus? Well, that’s my girl in a few years!lol
I hope you have a great Mother’s Day!
This looks like so much fun. I love the picture of your little boy with the rolling pin, so cute. That cheesecake looks super easy. I might make one while we are on vacation!
Have a great weekend!
yum!
hi i am a kd myslf and i rly wnt 2 mk a cheese cake and i hv sm questions plzzz answerr them:
where do i get a big tin case from?
how do i put the crumbs around the cake?
thankk u and it lks yummy :D
I’m not quite sure how to answer those questions because I make this cheesecake quite differently. This is a no-bake cheesecake. I just put my crumbs on the bottom of a 9×13 inch pan, pour the cheesecake filling over it and refrigerate!