I was out of town for a long weekend. So I am three days late starting the 10 Day Real Food Challenge, inspired by local blogger ChildOrganics, who initiated the challenge for other bloggers based on the website 100 Days of Real Food. We got back home late Monday night to discover our basement flooded […]
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Weekending, a candy-free Easter Egg hunt and some random thoughts
I know what you are thinking – A candy-free Easter Egg hunt? What? But it gets stranger and the story gets better. The Easter Eggs at my children’s backyard Easter Egg hunt Saturday were filled with money – dimes, nickels, quarters and five dollars in one big egg for each child. This was my Aunt […]
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What we ate for dinner last night
Coming out of a winter food rut, I’m thrilled that our CSA with Care of the Earth Farms starts delivering on April 11. It will provide a bounty of fresh cooking inspiration. I’m always asking my farmer friend (AKA Farmer Megan) what she made for dinner last night, with the same produce she grew, harvested […]
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Potty Party celebrates that diapers are not forever!
In this house we like to find reasons to celebrate, to bake something special and put up some decorations. We have celebrated half-birthdays, birthdays for dogs, adopting a cat, BIRTH day parties when friends have new babies, snow days and the first days of summer. And now, our latest reason to throw a party is […]
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More Mud Pie Cafe photos, in action with many kids
Our newly established Mud Pie Cafe was a busy kitchen Monday, with fun being had by kids of all ages, boys and girls. It made me so happy that I got my camera out and started clicking. The set up inspired so much raw creativity, with nothing but mud and some old kitchen supplies. Boys were […]
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Mud Pie Cafe brings lots of backyard fun
Here is some backyard fun we’ve been working on – Our new Mud Pie Café. Some call it a Mud Pie Kitchen. But we decided to add some flair and make it a little more fun, seeing there are three girls around here. It turns out it’s a lot of fun. And a great place to […]
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Renovations update, window restoration in the news
Renovations on our 90-year-old craftsman house continue, as it goes from being the brown house to becoming the blue house. The old layers of paint are getting scraped off and slowly, the blue is going up. The trim is going from yellow to creme and accent colors of a creamy orange well soon go on […]
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Weekending, post spring break
Last week was a long one. Fun, but long. My husband was working 12 hour days and had to go out of town on a moment’s notice for work. That left me with three kids last week, alone, 24/7 as we muddled through spring break with no school. And, the TV stayed off the entire […]
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Little Miss Independent, my Montessori toddler
My two-year-old could go about her whole day without me. She goes potty by herself, gets herself dressed and delights at squeezing her own toothpaste on her brush – as well as doing so for her sisters. Her ways are far from perfect. As you can see in the attached picture, her pants and her […]
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Easy to make Picket Fence Chalkboard for kids
Usually we head to the beach for Spring Break. But this year my husband’s work did not allow for that. So today the kids spent the day in the backyard in their swimsuits, enjoying our warm summer-like day. Being the daughter of a builder who grew up playing with scrap wood in the garage, I’m […]
