Posted in Cornwall, Parenting, tagged blooming, blossoms, children, Connecticut, Cornwall, dirt, gardening, kids and gardens, Lyme county, magnolias, parenting, spring, weeding on April 25, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
So many magnolias and blooming things, prickly things sticking to us and the smell of warm earth. We uncovered so many little shoots and sprouts by simply raking a top layer of old leaves off of everything while in Cornwall. The world is waking up again.
Rockstar Diaries has a lovely post about the magnolia trees in Central Park (which blossomed a bit faster than the ones in CT).
Posted in Cornwall, Rainy days, Crafting, Parenting, Beautiful Things, tagged art, kids, indoors, fun, children, crafts, winter, drawing, Shrinky Dink, creative, shadow boxes, Nancy Bevans, wooly creatures, oven on March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
While hanging out with our friend Brad in Connecticut, he allowed us to play with one of his Christmas gifts from his grandma. Do you remember Shrinky Dinks? Not only are they still around, but they come in more variety – including packs of large blank paper where you can create your own drawings and crafts out of them.
Coincidentally Brad’s Aunt Nan came over to the house with her own Shrinky Dink art that she exhibited in a local gallery. Check out her amazing shadow boxes filled with her own created creatures! And after finding this pinterest page of other ideas, I cannot wait to try my hand at making rings.
Drawing some pretty cute things ..
Anxiously watching the oven for the finished products
Ezra’s ‘pepperoni’ and car necklaces
Aunt Nan’s pieces
Shrinky Dink sheep!
Posted in Cooking, Cornwall, Food Adventures, Parenting, Travel, tagged chai, chaiwalla, cheese, Connecticut, cooking, date, love, partner, salisbury, tea, tea room, tomato pie, warm on winter day on February 26, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Ahhh finally. My husband and I had a date – several hours free where we could sit at a table and talk about something other than schools, schedules, and kid stuff. We checked out The Chaiwalla Tea Room while in Connecticut. Not only is the tea amazing – but some folks at our table told us to try the famous tomato pie which was so good, I’m still fantasizing about getting all the way back there again. Maybe even with the kids in tow.
Posted in Beautiful Things, Cornwall, Food Adventures, Parenting, Travel, tagged bonfire, children, frozen, fun, hot dogs, ice, ice skating, kids, lake, marshmallows, snowy days, winter on February 21, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The lake in Cornwall was so frozen, we could walk all the way across it. Here we are sitting on docks half way across. Some nice neighbor came along and made a bonfire and the kids made hotdogs and roasted marshmallows. Ezra even found a way to eat them without taking his gloves off.
See what the lake looks like thawed, here.
Posted in Beautiful Things, Cornwall, Parenting, tagged children playing in snow, Connecticut, Cornwall, country, February, fun, kids, scenic, shovel, snow fort, snow sports, winter on February 20, 2013 | 2 Comments »
Since hurricane Sandy cut our Feb break short, we went to Cornwall again and romped in the snow with friends. A snow fort, eating clean country snow, lots of hot chocolate and of course, more snow angels.
Posted in Beautiful Things, Cornwall, Holidays, Parenting, Travel, tagged barn, children, Connecticut, Cornwall, country, country house, farm, hat, kids, parenting, paw prints, snow, tracking on January 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I guess being from NYC I don’t get to see a lot of snow. In the last couple years there’s been a day here, a day there – when the snow falls deep enough to warrant suiting up in snow suits and finding a hill to sled on. So forgive me if I post more gratuitous shots of snow again. Snow blanketing everything – little mysterious paw prints in the snow (what animal walked through here last night?!), and using all that snow as an excuse to get Zoe an adorable hat.
Posted in Beautiful Things, Cornwall, Food Adventures, Parenting, tagged candy, children, cold day, Connecticut, country, eat, food, gray day, kids, maple syrup, parenting, project for snow day, snow, snow candy, snow days, sticky on January 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve always wanted to try this trick – but not with city snow. We heated up some maple syrup and poured it into snow-packed fry pans while the snow was very fresh. So fun!
Here comes more snow! Quick, find a kid project..
Zoolander?
Posted in Cornwall, Holidays, Parenting, Travel, tagged children, Connecticut, Cornwall, fun, holidays, Mohawk Mountain, parenting, skiing, sledding, snow, snow machines, travel with kids, winter on January 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
As if a dusting of snow on Christmas day isn’t perfect enough, we realized that there’s a tradition at Mohawk Mountain – allowing stir crazy kids to come around on Christmas and use the mountain while it is technically ‘closed’. But those fabulous snow-making machines were still on and working! Our host Brad even demonstrated how to make the perfect snow angel .. a new habit that Zoe cannot seem to kick.
Brad points out another perfect snow angel
Posted in Beautiful Things, Cornwall, Rainy days, Travel, tagged autumn, before and after, car in nature, Connecticut, Cornwall, fall, fallen, leaves, season change, seasons, Subaru, summer on November 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Remember our trip to Cornwall CT back in this post during Memorial Day? How lush and green everything was when it was the beginning of summer?
Posted in Beautiful Things, Cornwall, Found Things, Parenting, Travel, tagged autumn, board games, children, Connecticut, Cornwall, fall, indoors, kids, little girl, mushrooms, napping, parenting, toddler, weekends, winter on November 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A little reprieve to the country – lots of board game-playing, finding strange tiny mushrooms on the rocks outside, hiking until we all got too cold, and napping somewhere cozy after all is said and done. Winter on its way:
