General notes:

Refrigerator cookies are amazing but a terrible, terrible idea if you are someone who has no self-control when it comes to cookie dough.

If something is too spicy for your husband, it is also too spicy for your child. This is okay- more for you.

This macaroni salad is actually quite tasty and not gloppy. If someone in your house has a fondness for gross supermarket macaroni salad, you can make this instead and keep your dignity. The pork chops are excellent, too.