Today was the Harvest Festival at Maya’s Playgroup. Once again, this year I am the Festival and Events organizer and so I enjoyed the preparation of the day. It is a small simple Festival, that today was held indoors due to tremendous amounts of rain we have been having. Parents arrived at 11am, for the […]
Down-Under-Manhattan-Bridge-Overpass….and acronym that spells out cool. If you want to go to one of the hip, and artistic, areas of Brooklyn, then you should make your way to DUMBO. You can be guaranteed to find designer fashion and home-wares, book stores, adorable children’s boutiques and yummy specialty foods. If you walk along the promenade you […]
We decided that we would send our pressed flowers to Aunt Heidi for her Birthday and so we put them all on one piece of paper to make this picture. The flowers still really need another week of drying out, but I figured the postal travel time will provide that. Here is our pressed flower […]
Once there was a girl who had a curl right in the middle of her forehead, When she was good she was very very good and when she was bad she was……still adorable! How could one so cute ever be naughty?
With weather this nice one must go to the beach! We are counting ourselves lucky to keep having these lovely post summer beach days. Despite the sky being over cast for a good part of the day I took the Girls to the beach. The cloud coverege cleared at points and while the sunshine came […]
As you may have noticed, Maya and Elle love to wear hats….and until recently we owned quite a few. That was until Elle started loosing them! This Summer we lost three hats, yes three! Maya never once lost a hat, but Elle managed to lose three. How you might ask? Well when Elle decides to […]
With the end of summer upon us, I thought it would be fun for the girls to press some of the flowers from our garden before the cold weather scares them away! We harvested some pretty blooms and arranged them on artist quality paper. I paced wax paper over the top and them put them […]
Welcome Fall…..we are excited you are here! Tomorrow is the Autumnal Equinox, the only time during the year when the length of day and night are the same and the Sun is in the same plane as the Earth’s equator. Tomorrow Earth will experiences 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night. To many, […]
Sunday we had a yard sale. We orchestrated to have it with our neighbours, and it was a success, definitely worth doing. I cleared out a few boxes of clutter, mostly clothes and toys the Girls have grown out off and baby items no longer needed. We made some $$$ which is certainly worth the […]
One of the things that always grew in our Family garden was rhubard. Planted in a line along the starberry patch, it grew all year round. Grandma often made a sweet rhubard sauce that we would eat on it’s own or with home made custard, and sometimes we would have apple and rhubarb pie. I […]
As a parent I feel part of my role is to help my children learn new skills and discover what brings them joy. If both of these things can be combined, then there is a sense of parental accomplishment. Seeing Maya return to Ballet today, and start Tap dancing has been all about this. Maya […]
With the first week of school over I have had time to reflect on all the positive things about going to the Waldorf Playgroup. Although Maya only goes to school three half days, the days that she does go become a full day devoted to the Group. After pick-up many of the parents go to […]
Maya started back to Playgroup on Tuesday. The first day of school is an exciting day in our household as Maya enjoys playgroup very much. We are so grateful for the warm loving teachers! Bright and early she got up and got dressed. She came into my room all ready to go! Funny enough I […]
Once a week we have burritos, one version or another depending on the veggies we have, but always something like this: rice, beans, cheese, tomato, avocado and greens. They are easy and healthy and cheap and the Family enjoys them very much. I make a Spanish style rice, open a can of black beans (in […]
About 10 days ago the Girls and I were at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. We were there for a photo shoot with a friend by the lotus pond. After our photos by the wonderful water flowers we wandered around the Garden. To our delight we came across this sculpture by Patrick Dougherty. Take a look….
On Saturday we had Maya’s Playgroup Welcome Picnic. It was the welcome day for the new Families, and the welcome back to the old. We fall into the latter category this year as Maya begins her second and sadly the final year at the Waldorf Playgroup. It was wonderful to see our friends, some of […]
Maya came to me and said “I want to sew Mummy”. It had been a while since she had said this, and so I said “Ok”. We went to the craft cuppboard and I dragged out the scrap felt box. “What would you like to make?” I asked. Maya started rummaging throught the small pieces […]
The Dtimas Park Farmers Market is held on Sunday Mornings along Cortelyou Road, starting at Westminster Street. This is very close to our home and so I have started going there weekly. The Children love to come with me as they know there is a good chance of getting a treat. We go straight to […]
Today was an exciting day for Maya. All summer long we have been looking forward to Ballet sign-on, and it finally has rolled around. This season Maya is studying combined Ballet and Tap Dancing, and so today we bought her first pair of tap shoes. Maya tried them on (and tried them out) at the […]
With Labor Day on Monday, so came the end of Summer vacation. Teachers all across America resumed work on Tuesday and the Children started today (Maya will start Playgroup next Tuesday). Today being the first day of school for most Children meant that it was a good day to go somewhere with the Girls…..no more […]