Wherein I visit the library, get a pile of cool books to show you, and use them to segue into thoughts about my new approach to screen time this summer.
Read More: Reading, and thoughts on Summer screen time
I visited the farm, made some delicious ice pops, and took about a million photos of the process (because cooking is so much more fun when there’s a camera in one hand and a wooden spoon in the other).
Read More: Saturday in June
One of the things that was waiting for me upon our return from the Boston area last Thursday was a book I had requested from the library: People’s Pops: 55 Recipes for Ice Pops, Shave Ice, and Boozy Pops from Brooklyn’s Coolest Pop Shop Nearly all of the recipes in this book follow a formula: fresh […]
Read More: Watermelon Cucumber Slushies
In theory I am an open-windows kind of girl. I love falling asleep next to one, waking up next to one, going about my day feeling the cross breeze throughout the house… if it were practical, I would live with the windows wide open all day, every day throughout the summer. In practice, though, it […]
Read More: Breakfasting in the untamed outdoors
Eren’s post on the colors of Coastal Maine struck a chord with me. With every year I fall more and more in love with the colors of the Jersey Shore. The sandy beiges, the blues of the sea and sky… Yummy. But I remember last May, after spending five days in Ocean City, I was […]
Read More: Colors of home
School let out for the summer a week ago today. Sometimes I think we’ve done nothing in that time but find more and more ways to get wet. Hose, lake, pool, sprinkler. I haven’t been posting much, lest my keyboard get soaked 😀
Read More: Wet
I originally posted about these slushy, delicious fruity drinks back in 2007. Since then, I’ve made a few tiny changes (and taken some much nicer pictures, if we’re being honest here) and thought it was worth an update. We make these smoothies every year when the weather turns hot. They’re like Summer in a Cup! […]
Read More: Strawberry-Lemonade Smoothies 2.0
I think I’ve formed an unnatural attachment to our Summer napkins. I don’t know if it’s the unseasonably hot weather of the past week, the eager anticipation of the summer after a particularly cold and wet winter, or just me being crazy, but I’ve been daydreaming again. I switch out our cloth kitchen napkins every […]
Read More: Ode to Elsie’s Kitchen
Skirt weather has arrived, and oh, how I have missed it! I didn’t realize quite how much until I spent yesterday twirling around in my favorite a-line. Skirt-wearing brings a sort of effervescence with it that I find hard to capture in other ways. I suppose it’s just that it makes me feel “girly,” which […]
Read More: Joy in the daydream
Several times in the last few days I’ve said “this month,” when referring to things we’d actually done in August. I couldn’t seem to wrap my brain around it being September yet. I mean, really. September? Already? Hmmm. Maybe so… We’ve got (slightly hail-damaged) Honeycrisp apples, fresh off the tree. I made applesauce today. Tomorrow, […]
Read More: September after all
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