Whether you’re in a postage stamp sized yard, or a pastoral acreage, creating outdoor nooks and play spaces is a simple and affordable way to add some magic to your children’s time in the yard. You’ll need: 6 bamboo poles, 6 feet tall (or other type of tall poles) twine bean seeds or plants (or… Continue reading Gardening with Kids: Bean Tipi
Urban Sugarin’
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Celebrating Easter Mindfully / Grandma’s Paska
Slippery, sticky, yellow dough. Exotic saffron. Raisins. Old coffee tins and pretty loaf pans. Generations of women’s hands kneading, shaping, tasting. This is something I want to pass onto our children, especially now that their great-grandma has passed. She would have been 99 this fall! I thought I’d share my grandmother’s original recipe (you can… Continue reading Celebrating Easter Mindfully / Grandma’s Paska
The Week in Photos
A lot of celebrating this past week! :: Herb Fairies Elder learning :: A lunch party for Mike’s birthday :: April Fool’s :: Superhero Swim party for the birthday boys :: Library visit :: Photos I found on my phone, taken by Cohen Photos below by Cohen…
Taking Back Quiet Time
Recently I’ve read strange phrases like ‘mamas reading time’, and ‘taking a quick cat nap on the couch’. Reading time?! For moms? During the day, with kids home? I guess it is possible, seeing as how this past year we entered a whole new world where Milo can play with the other kids, and really well on… Continue reading Taking Back Quiet Time
Celebrating Easter Mindfully | Dyeing Eggs
One of my fondest childhood memories of Easter is dyeing Easter eggs in my grandmother’s kitchen, surrounded by family, while snacking on grandma’s famous Paska (Polish Easter bread). I recall the sweet, yeasty taste of the homemade bread, the smell of the local pickerel or ham we’d enjoy later at dinner, the whole boiled eggs… Continue reading Celebrating Easter Mindfully | Dyeing Eggs
The Week in Photos
Thank goodness for photos. When I look at these moments, I am so grateful for every single one of them, big or small. The tears I shed last week as I sat in the van willing myself to go be social with the kids after a tough morning… their tears… the squabbles, the messes –… Continue reading The Week in Photos
Farm Learning :: An Urban Farm Site
This post is the second in a series of posts that share some wonderful places we visited on a trip to California that we won (for two) through Vita Health Fresh Market in the fall of 2012. We have been dreaming of living on a farm for about a decade and are always looking for unique learning opportunities.… Continue reading Farm Learning :: An Urban Farm Site
Seedlings
The seedlings from our germination experiment are coming along well! They’re likely much too early, so I’m not sure what we’ll do with them, but for now we’re enjoying the green that is adding some life to our living room. It’s lovely – if you can get past our ghetto grow light set-up! We have… Continue reading Seedlings
Celebrating Easter Mindfully / Natural Basket Stuffers
Whether celebrated for it’s religious significance, as a family tradition, or as a way of welcoming spring, we can all agree that Easter is about new life; blades of grass poking through freshly thawed soil, tender shoots emerging from a deep slumber, just as we breathe in the fresh spring air after a long, dark… Continue reading Celebrating Easter Mindfully / Natural Basket Stuffers