Great news! I’ve launched a new website! Please visit me over at Smelling Salts Journal! Check out the Welcome post and then have a browse around! But wait! What’s happening to Summer of Funner? Summer of Funner will still be here, in magazine form, for all of your Summer needs. Over the next few months, I’ll be […]
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The kids are really growing up. So, this is likely the last summer I’ll be posting in this magazine format! But wasn’t it a wonderful Summer of Funner??? Here’s a digest of all the posts: Summer 2016 Love-to-Do List Elderflower Cake with St Germain Soak and Elderflower Mascarpone Frosting Return to Stratford… Kids Haiku Theatre […]
It’s the last free Friday of summer, and we’re getting nostalgic, not only for the summer that was, but also for all of our Summer of Funner activities and posts from 2011 until now, the whole six years of ’em. As with every summer, we wonder, is this it? Is this our last summer of posting on this […]
This Wednesday is the Challenge to End All Challenges! Tonight is not only our annual End of Summer Backyard Campout …It’s also the night in which the kids are supposed to perform their Cover Songs on Guitar and screen their homemade Short Films that Scare Us! We’re excited more than we’ve ever been before! And we think we’re […]
This week’s Best Summer Movies of All Time are all about kids’ summers. The first, Kings of Summer, is a fantastic recent film about three older boys who “run away from home” to a fort in the woods for the summer. [Anyone who hasn’t seen it should. Hence, why I’m showing it to the kids […]
The kids have accepted all of their Wednesday challenges this summer like champs. This week’s challenge may get them out of bed a little earlier than usual, but it’s all about relaxing and being present. As part of winding down the summer, we wanted to make sure we got in a little beach time when the beach […]
Before I put Summer of Funner to rest, there was one Love-to-Do List item that I just had to make. I’ve always wanted to make a marmalade to sigh for, most particularly, a Lemon Ginger Champagne Marmalade. I didn’t even really know if such a thing had ever existed before. I only knew that I wanted […]
Things got a little heavy last week, what with Jaws and In The Heat of the Night. So, this week, we’re showing playful movies with a projector out on the back deck, movies that we could never go a summer without laughing over: Tati’s Jour de Fête and the Marx Brothers’ A Night at the […]
Last Friday, we screened Jaws and In the Heat of the Night as part of our Summer Film Fest. Afterwards, the kids said that both movies were “scary.” So, we got to comparing how these movies chilled us to the bone. Sure, Jaws had its shark and its shark music. But the shots of the crowds […]
I’ve been keeping score at baseball games since I could lift a pencil. When I was really young, I used to help my grandpa track at-bats on the single game score-cards or programs they’d sell at Yankee games. When I was a little older, I took a break from the paper and ran the electronic […]
You didn’t think we’d run a Family Film Fest dedicated to the Best Summer Movies of All Time without showing the kids Jaws, did you? [Thank goodness they’re finally old enough!] But what the heck would you pair it with? I suppose the easy answer would be Star Wars, or American Graffiti. But we’re going […]
Last weekend, the kids watched Farenheit 451 as part of our Summer Film Fest. The one thing they were really drawn to this time [they’d seen it before] were the wordless comics or newspapers that Montag reads in bed while his wife is watching t.v. and that others read on the suspended monorails. These are, essentially, the […]
It’s August! Time for a book report, right? Just kidding! Here’s a mostly-visual sampling of what the kids are reading this summer! Their Together Book: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two, J.K. Rowling In July, Toby faithfully read a chapter a day of this book until completion…and he loved it: Armada, Ernest Cline […]
This week’s Best Summer Movies of All Time are all about “brainwashing.” We’ve chosen Farenheit 451 and The Manchurian Candidate. First up is Truffaut’s excellent take on the famous novel in which novels are contraband and wall-screens are all the rage! Next up, and in honour(?) of the recent U.S. National conventions, we’re presenting a noirish […]
While the kids may have a lot of screen time over the summer, most of this isn’t television. Still, one summer show that they’re absolutely obsessed with [and for good reason] is BattleBots. Science and technology squads build robots for the purpose of pitting them against one another in a battle arena, which, itself, is set […]
Two years ago, we made Toby an amazing Chocolate Milk Piñata Cake for his birthday. And, since we didn’t tell him it was a Piñata cake, the surprise on his face, when he sliced it open, was priceless! This year, Toby upped the ante on us by requesting an Ice Cream Piñata Cake. SRSLY, WT*? The closest I came […]
