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a great day for a tea party!
The weather has been weird and typically pre-spring. Off and on rain. And nothing says tea party around here like a good sudden thunderstorm. It's been a long while since we have had such a party, the...
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anjali's handprint cookies
When I first learned I was pregnant, I ordered this cookie cutter kit from Chinaberry. When Anjali was 4 weeks old, I was finally able to get her to spread her fingers long enough to get an outline of...
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dessert for breakfast - strawberry napoleons!
I woke up one morning last week to a sign hanging in the entry to the kitchen that read:Dear Mom, Can you help me make strawberry napoleons when I wake up?Love,ZealIt was so sweet; I can't believe I...
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getting nesty!
From the little golden nest that hangs from the living room reading lamp (the subject of the mythology of the living room buzzard), to the papîer-måché nests that live with the fairy houses, we've been...
View Articledon't drown your food: or remembering retro
Remember those old Saturday morning cartoon PSA's? Today, I was on a few long walks down memory lane, one of them that included sharing those sweet memories with a few of my very favorite kids. It all...
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nests updated
We had a few extra supplies and so revisited the crispy treat nest project yesterday. This time, we used a muffin tin (lightly oiled) when forming the nests. It worked wonderfully! It was much easier...
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tools to kitchen creativity
Cooking with a child is another wonderful way to connect: with each other, the world, and our unique creative selves. It allows us to explore natural materials, mimic real scientists, and learn ways to...
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Broadway Café
It's almost funny how much our lives revolve around our next meal. So much math, reading, science, and problem solving comes from our time in the kitchen together. And now, writing is happening a lot...
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What Holly Hobbie Taught Me: or, How to Make the Perfect Pancake on Saturday...
In 1979, the year before my baby brother was born and life would change forever, Saturday mornings meant my Holly Hobbie pajama-shirt and a bowl of cereal on a tin TV tray perfectly placed in front of...
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gingerbread fun
Did you hear? The holidays were here! They came and went as fast as our annual batches of snowball cookies and cinnamon nuts! I managed to snap a few shots of our never to be missed Gingerbread houses,...
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Can you taste-test this for me? Pretty please....
Okay, so truth be told, Zeal is getting a little (okay, a lot) sick of having oatmeal for breakfast. I just love it. I usually slow cook it (putting it on (with a dash of cinnamon while its cooking) as...
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sidetracked by snowflakes
We've been spending a good deal of time Welcoming Winter here recently. But Zeal was sad that the recent rains had melted all the snow away and his daily treks to the "sled run" were becoming less,...
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tortillas continued...
So our special entre e finally got made, even after that (oh so fortunate) snowflake incident.This is one of Zeal's most favorite meals, and I just realized I haven't ever posted about it. Tortilla...
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who gets the leftovers?
Oh my, this girl just LOVES her broccoli. It's like one of those standby foods we can always count on to keep her in her highchair. But who does she give her leftovers to when she's aw-duh...
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our favorite sippies
Cheers to all the companies who are now making sippy cups that are safe for our toddlers to be drinking from!!!!Here are our favorites:The Foogo sippy, made by Thermos, (yes, this is how she carries it...
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Juicing fun
Oh the joys of a trip to Central California, where winter means oranges, tangerines, lemons, grapefruit. Yum! We came home with TONS of them, picked from the grandparents' tree, where we know they were...
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cooking tools to help kids get creative
Cooking with a child is another wonderful way to connect: with each other, the world, and our unique creative selves. It allows us to explore natural materials, mimic real scientists, and learn ways to...
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mmm, Mmm, MESSES!
There's no better place to get messy than in the kitchen (except maybe the bathtub!)Stay tuned for a messy post next week...Thanks to all of you who read and send me your oh so yummy comments. Happy...
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Discovering Our Souls in a Messy Kitchen
I uncovered this piece in the dusty files as I was cleaning off my hard drive, and realized I'd never posted it here. So, in one sense, this is a walk down memory lane for me, but in another it could...
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for the love of football, hearts, and chocolate!
Oh, it has been rather busy around these parts. We've been doing lots of writing, playing, working, And oh yeah, cooking and eating, And then the Super Bowl decided to happen, and even though we have...
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