At least once a week the Girls and I meet Cam at the train station on his way home from work. The train station is a few blocks away and so a short walk (or scooter ride) from our home. We would probably do it more, other than Cam arrives home at about 7pm and […]
The Girls and I went to the city the week before last to buy fabric to make new skirts for Fall and Winter. Walking into a fabric or notion shop is like opening a treasure chest of the imagination. There are endless things to make and create and spending hours with the girls wondering the […]
I have added a new cake too our felt baked goods. It has been a while since I have sewn something from felt and despite it being the middle of summer, I could not resist creating this pretty pinkalicous cake! It has been too hot to turn on the oven and bake real cakes cookies […]
Goop glorious goop! Struck by a moment of Mummy magic, I selected a few bowls from the kitchen cupboards, then filled each bowl with a small amount of ingredients, flour, sugar, lentils, rice. I then found a selection of utensils and set up a table in the yard. I placed a large bucket of water […]
With this relentless heat wave, people have been turning on the fire hydrants and playing the the (free) city water. The girls and I have yet to join our neighbours doing this, but we have enjoyed seeing them cooling off, and having fun!
July 4th we went to Woodstock NY. For years now we have talked about visiting Woodstock, the iconic American Town. Yesterday we spontaneously decided to go and so packed the car and off we went. Through Manhattan, over the George Washington Bridge, headed for the Catskills. The town is in Ulster County and is famous for lending […]
Last weekend while Cam was away on his cruise I took the Girls to the fantastic new Pier 6 Playground on the water near Brooklyn Bridge. Pier 6 officially opened two weeks prior, on Saturday, June 5 and so there were many enthusiastic families like ourselves checking it out for the first time. It looks to […]
Today we went to Neponsit Beach! I can’t tell you how wonderful a feeling it was for us to get in our car and drive to a beach! We have owned a car for a month now, and with moving, then Maya’s party and then Cam being away, this was the first weekend we were […]
With Maya’s new set of wheels we needed another helmet. Fights quickly developed over the one helmet, and poor little Elle had to forgo riding the scooter while Maya rode the bike, until a new helmet arrived. I have been very pleased with the Little Nutty helmet I purchased for Maya to wear on the […]
I wanted to share with you some of the wonderful, colourful gifts Maya received for her Birthday. People enjoyed the rainbow theme so much that it carried over into gift selection. Maya was delighted by her rainbow gifts. Many of which were home-made….which as you can imagine is our favorite type of present! Thank you […]
The second part of Cam’s Birthday meal request was a cheese cake. This is the third annual cheese cake I have baked him for his Birthday (which is the only times I ever make cheese cakes). Cheese cakes can be a little tricky (to have set, but not over brown or heaven forbid crack!) and […]
We celebrated Cam’s Birthday yesterday with an evening picnic in the back yard. Cam chose what he wanted to eat which was a Soba noodle salad, or as he calls it, “Yummy Noodles”. This is a delicious and healthy salad, that is filling and tasty, so very satisfying. Soba noodles are a Japanese buckwheat and […]
What a joy it was to discover when we moved in, that our garden grows glorious summer fruits! Right here in the middle of Brooklyn we have Figs, plums, Blackberries and Raspberries growing. Watching fruit ripen on a tree is a slow rewarding pleasure….and then the day finally comes that you get to eat it!
While we celebrated Summer Solstice, on the other side of the world it is Winter Solstice. Had I happened to be on the other side of the world I would have gone to the Lismore Lantern Parade. Lismore is the town I was born in, and lived in until I was about 18 years old. […]
Everyone knows how mischievous Squirrel Nutkin is, and so we can only guess that it was he who ate our sun flowers heads. Would you believe it? I woke to a scuffling noise the other night and when I looked out the window I did not see anything, but then in the morning when I […]
Tonight we had a midsummers night picnic in the Park with Maya’s Waldorf Playgroup to celebrate Summer Solstice. The poetic, romantic, mythical night of the year when fairies might be seen along with other mythical creatures. The celebration of Midsummer’s night or eve was from ancient times linked to the summer solstice, the longest day […]
Today I had my hair cut, and I have to say, I am feeling a little remorseful. This is usual for me, which is probably why I have always had varying degrees of long hair because I can’t bare to cut it! I always feel bad after a hair cut. Well that is not entirely […]
We had a fantastic day full of colourful party games and activities! Rainbow face painting, a rainbow pass the parcel, a rainbow pinata full of glitter, freeze dance and then the rainbow sparkle cup cake Birthday cake! It was an incredibly hot day and at some points we were all a bit heat exhausted….funny though […]
A BIG weekend for us, starting with Maya’s Ballet Concert. It was the 10th Anniversary of Terrace Dance Studio and because so they had gone to effort to make it especially fancy. The concert was held in the auditorium of Bishop Ford School as it has been since the first production. Maya was a star, […]
A few months ago I came across and image of a home made cake stand. I filed it way in my creative memory thinking it would be great to make such a thing for Maya’s Birthday. So along with moving house (and a heap of other things) the last two week, I have also been […]