Posted in Changing Seasons on Oct 31st, 2008
A Happy Halloween to everyone…
…and a very happy 4th Birthday to my little Firecracker!! You are a crazy crazy girl – I love your energy, your excitement and how life is just a thrill for you. Mama and Daddy love you so much and are glad we get to have you in our family!!
Posted in Learning, Playing/ Free Exploration on Oct 30th, 2008
The girls love to play with their “fairy-sized” china tea set. It’s a mish mash of pieces we’ve collected from thrift stores. I don’t think we’ve spent more than $3 in total. There are duplicates of some pieces, and we’re missing a few cups and sugar bowl lids, but the girls still enjoy serving tea to [...]
Posted in Crafting, Learning, Playing/ Free Exploration on Oct 29th, 2008
We place a lot of value in traditional, open-ended toys that foster imaginative play (Let’s just say I’m not a fan of most things Disney, plastic, made-in-China, battery-operated, etc). I thought I’d take a few posts to highlight some of those toys that kindle my children’s creativity. (Sorry for the photo quality, the lighting wasn’t so hot, [...]
Posted in From my kitchen, Mamas Who Inspire on Oct 28th, 2008
Little Hen has been hit with a yucky stomach bug, and Tum Tum is cutting his first tooth, so it’s been a bit of a rough day around here. To cheer everyone up and to ease Little Hen back into food with something gentle on the tummy, I made Blue Yonder’s Daily Bread. (I was out of bread [...]
Posted in From my kitchen, Locally grown, Uncategorized on Oct 28th, 2008
We used to live on the Oregon Coast, and the girls were used to enjoying dinners of fresh caught salmon or steelhead, and sometimes even elk. Now that we’ve moved back to the city, those days seem long gone. The girls were very happy when, last evening, my hubby brought home some freshly smoked, locally caught, NW salmon [...]
Posted in Changing Seasons, Crafting, Learning on Oct 27th, 2008
The girls have been adding items to their nature table almost every day. We’ve been collecting buckeyes from the neighbor’s tree and pine cones from ours, acorns from the park, pumpkins from the farmer’s market. Little Hen and I have also been needle felting in the afternoons.
Some updated pictures of the ever-evolving autumn table in the fading [...]
Posted in From my kitchen, Uncategorized on Oct 25th, 2008
Yesterday was my sweet hubby’s birthday!! He had requested a beef pot roast with carrots, onion, potatoes (my mom’s recipe, it’s unbelieveably simple and ridiculously tasty) and a side of egg noodles for his birthday dinner (This is a real treat - we only eat meat about one or two days a month, and then usually only a small portion).
We are having cake [...]
Posted in From my kitchen on Oct 24th, 2008
I roasted a Butternut Squash one morning this week in order to make flax-seed meal squash bread (tastes much better than it sounds!). It was doubly nice, because it warmed the chilly house and the smell of roasting squash was so yummy.
The bread only takes 1 3/4 cup squash, so i had quite a bit leftover. My [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 24th, 2008
Grosgrain is having yet another giveaway – this time the dress is just beyond spectacular! I can’t believe the amazing craftstmanship in this dress (i mean, just look at it!)! check out the giveaway here.
Posted in Books and Reading, Learning on Oct 23rd, 2008
Wishing you a snuggly afternoon, full of stories and children’s sweet voices.