Jen Ivey and Tessa have launched the Special Needs Family & Caregiver Connection of SW Cook & Will Counties, an online community that connects families with qualified caregivers for individuals with special needs, using technology to strengthen the community.
Dear Editor: Chicagoland Families Struggle to Find Caregivers for Children with Special Needs
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Delicious Seafood Appetizers: Crab and Cream Cheese Tartlets with Chili Sauce
Prepare a delicious appetizer of reduced-fat spreadable garden vegetable cream cheese, seafood seasoning, lump crabmeat, miniature phyllo tart shells, and chili sauce for a tasty treat.
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Delicious and Festive Appetizer: Cheese and Pesto Pastry Leaves for the Holidays
Make delicious and festive holiday appetizers by cutting out pastry leaves, filling them with a cream cheese and feta cheese mixture, and topping them with pimiento pieces.
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Delicious Red Velvet Cake Balls with Three Types of Chocolate Coating
Make delicious red velvet cake balls by preparing and baking the cake mix, crumbling it into a bowl, adding frosting, shaping into balls, and dipping them in white, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate candy coating.
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Delightful Cranberry and Apricot Cream Cheese Dip for a Festive Gathering
This Yield: 1-1/2 cups / Total Time: 10 mins recipe combines reduced-fat cream cheese, dried cranberries, chopped dried apricots, grated orange zest, and assorted crackers for a delicious appetizer.
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Delicious Seafood Appetizer: Shrimp and Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls
This recipe for Yield: 2 dozen / Total Time: 20 mins features a tube of refrigerated crescent rolls, cream cheese, sour cream, dill weed, salt, seafood cocktail sauce, green pepper, onion, Monterey Jack cheese, and shrimp, all baked in a 13×9-in. baking dish and refrigerated for 1 hour.
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Mini Cheese Balls
Yield: 36 cheese balls / Total Time: 30 mins Ingredients: Directions: CHRISTINE MA FOR TASTE OF HOME
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Holiday foods can be toxic to pets – a veterinarian explains which, and what to do if Rover or Kitty eats them
Keeping human foods away from pets is one way to avoid emergency veterinary hospital runs during Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or New Year’s.
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Drinking during holidays and special occasions could affect how you parent your kids
Even parents who don’t drink much throughout the year may have a few extra eggnogs at a Christmas party or beers while watching the Super Bowl. And that has implications for how they treat their kids.
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Pritzker endorses hemp regulation bill says new, dangerous products threaten children’s safety
Gov. JB Pritzker has expressed support for legislation to regulate the production and sale of intoxicating hemp-derived products, which are marketed directly to minors and contain potentially dangerous chemicals.
