Posted in Beautiful Things, Cooking, Food Adventures, Parenting, Queens Life, tagged bake off, balloon animals, carnival, face painting, holiday desserts, PTA, school fundraising on December 9, 2019| 1 Comment »
Zoe’s sweet little school had a “bake off” to end all bake offs. Judges included our District Council Member Danny Dromm and others who are running for local office – as well as MC’d by students’ parents and even including some talented dads in a band! The sweets really ranged from Halloween to Thanksgiving to Holiday treats. And there were about 32 different desserts to test! I don’t know how the judges fit it all in..
Posted in Beautiful Things, Fun in NYC, Queens Life, tagged brownstones, development, grafitti, highrises, houses, LIC, Long Island City, Queens NY, sesame street, stoops, train tracks on November 4, 2019| 1 Comment »
Ezra has been taking drum lessons around here lately, and I’ve realized that I love the colors under the train tracks and the Sesame Street style stoops on houses! It’s really taking me back to scenes of Sesame Street from the 70s, but with all the new high-rises and graffiti in the mix – it’s something new. What does it remind you of?
Posted in Beautiful Things, Crafting, Holidays, Parenting, Queens Life, tagged dogs in costumes, Halloween fun, happy halloween, kids in costumes, parenting on October 31, 2019| 1 Comment »
Are you ready for Halloween? We have been gearing up with multiple costume changes (even for Louie) – but sadly it may be raining too hard tonight to give out as much candy as we have in years past… Not sure exactly what mashup of costume Ezra is coming up with, but his goal is to ‘not be too scary’ – and Zoe is apparently going for ‘Ginny Weasley’ from Harry Potter’s series. This is the first year in awhile that I haven’t had to make costumes from scratch, but we are just reusing everything we find around the house… what are your plans?
Happy Halloween~ !
Posted in Alley life, Beautiful Things, Crafting, Decorating, Food Adventures, Holidays, Kid style, Parenting, Queens Life, tagged alley life, alleyween, fun with kids, halloween, halloween games, mummy, NYC, photo booth ideas, skull cookies on October 29, 2019| 1 Comment »
I love this tradition we have of having our own party in the alley for Halloween. Residents came up with their own ‘station’ to have in back of their home or in their garage. We made a photo booth of sorts (selfie station) and there was a cookie decorating zone, a ‘chocolate (fountain) bar’, potions-making station, apple bobbing area .. and of course we had to finish the fun all up with a ‘make a mommy into a mummy’ out of toilet paper contest.
Posted in Beautiful Things, Parenting, Queens Life, tagged first day of school on September 10, 2019| Leave a Comment »
First day of school for 8th grade and 4th grade..
How did they get here so quickly?
This summer went by so fast and now we are back to the grind. While I love seeing the leaves change color, I’m also in disbelief that we are already going to be hunkering down to another winter, soon.
But enough of that – here they are on the first day of school! Clearly Zoe is about to lose a front tooth soon in this photo. In fact, it fell onto her school desk yesterday.
Posted in Beautiful Things, Food Adventures, Found Things, Fun in NYC, Queens Life, tagged Brooklyn nyc, Greenpoint on August 31, 2019| 1 Comment »
My husband and I got a chance to step out without the kids! I haven’t seen Greenpoint in so long – I had no idea it became its own microcosm of great food and fun. So much good food like the French Bistro Chez Ma Tante. Yeah, the food was so good I kind of didn’t get to photograph it until it was half eaten…
Posted in Beautiful Things, Parenting, Queens Life, tagged caterpillar, foliage, late summer composting, Queens Botanical Garden on August 26, 2019| 1 Comment »
Ugh it’s been so hot lately, but if you get to the Queens Botanical Garden bright and early … you can learn about compost while it’s still not too heated up outside. I think we caught the last of the garden’s growth by going in August, but it’s a peaceful reprieve from all the Chinatown bustle right outside the gates.
Posted in Beautiful Things, Kid style, Parenting, Queens Life, tagged acting, children, drama, fun, kids, moth, NYC summer camps, Serious Fun Theater Camp on August 23, 2019| 1 Comment »
When Zoe started this theater camp, I’m not sure she was as thrilled with it as she was last year. But little by little she made more friends, got a key role as a mischievous moth, and stole the show with her onstage cartwheels. In the end she made a few new friends, and got over her stage fright !
what a fun and crazy crew!
Posted in Beautiful Things, Home Shuling, Jewish Life, Kid style, Parenting, Queens Life, tagged bar mitzvah gifts, charity, donation, giving, Lion's Share Food Pantry, mitzvah, soup kitchen, volunteering kids on August 12, 2019| 1 Comment »
This boy gave a big portion of his bar mitzvah $$$ gifts to the local food pantry where he volunteers, and they sure did stock up on necessities for fall! We can’t believe how much they could purchase with his donation .. I’m so proud of my boy for paying it forward.
Posted in Beautiful Things, Fun in NYC, Queens Life, Travel, tagged 1950s, 1960s, abandoned terminal at JFK, architecture, bar in a plane, classic cars, Eero Saarinen, flight attendant uniforms, furniture design, JKF Airport, midcentury modern, midcentury modern design, TWA Hotel, vintage clothes on August 7, 2019| 1 Comment »
I don’t really even have to say much here other than .. WOW. Did this TWA Terminal at JFK Airport really stand still in time like this? How much revamping do you have to do to an already gorgeous Saarinen design like this? While dropping Ezra off for a flight (AND upon returning to get him) we had to go into this place twice and enjoy the piped in rat pack music, vintage cars, and ohhhh so much gorgeous Saarinen lines in poppy colors (that red!) And yes, there is a bar in that plane outside..
Need I say more? I’ll shut up now and let you enjoy the photos of this hotel that is somewhat of a museum:
