Food, Family, and Lifestyle
This past Friday, I took my friend out for her birthday to dinner at the Red Lantern Restaurant in the Foxwoods Resort Casino (followed by the show Cirque Éloize which was amazing – more coming soon). We began with two appetizers and a pair of drinks. My friend choose the Duck Buns and the Chicken Lettuce Wraps…
Happy Weekend Everyone! I know I have mentioned that I am crazy for Scrapbooking and even shared some crop girls’ weekends. With that said, I am the hostess in this month’s ‘Close To My Heart club’. You can by end of the day, Wednesday, August 12th and with each order, I get credit towards products that I want…
A few weeks back, I told you about the day we spent with our cousins in and around Mystic. On our way home, we made a pit stop at Dunkin Donuts and in front of us in the line there was this exuberant woman who told us that she just opened an Organic food store…
Welcome to my final in a series about traveling with tweens, covers our adventures on The Cog Railway up Mt. Washington. As I have shared earlier, we wanted to add a bit more adventure and out-of-the-box activity into this year’s trip. Part of this included, not driving, but taking the world’s first mountain climbing train up…
A few weeks ago, our cousins came for a 24-hour visit and we packed in the activity. We began the time with some splashes in the pool and some old-fashioned playtime. The next morning we headed for Mystic, Connecticut. Lucky for us, the Mystic Seaport was holding some Civil War encampments which offered some additional learning opportunities. Naturally,…
Last week, I shared that I has read ‘Cake Therapist’ but what I didn’t tell you is that the second I finished that book, I started on the newest novel by Jane Green. I have been a Jane Green fan since I read ‘Mr. Maybe’ back around 2000, so I was excited for ‘Summer Secrets’ to be released….
Once you have a family, you honestly do live by the calendar (Gymnastic and swim meets, school functions, bake sales) so I thought it was absolutely brilliant when my pal, Kelsey, The Naptime Chef, wrote her second cookbook based on the calendar. Her book ‘The Family Calendar Cookbook: From Birthdays to Bake Sales, Good Food to…
Hooray for summer, and gardens, and canning the fruits (and vegetables) of your labor!. So far, this season, we are preparing to preserve beans, sugar snap peas, and onions. We also plan on making pickles, which we do each year, and will even try pickling some zucchini this year. All of the items with be coming straight from our garden. This…
Like millions of others, I love to have a few books to indulge in during the lazy days of Summer. The first one that I devoured in a matter of days, is the delicious treat titled ‘The Cake Therapist’. What draws me to decide if I want to continue reading a book, is if it grabs me in the…
