Let’s send up rockets! Let’s turn on all the lights! This Summer’s Love-to-Do List is a conglomeration of the things we’d like to repeat from summers previous and the things we absolutely must try before the school bell rings again. Summer 2016 Love-to-Do List Stargazing at the Stratford Festival √, Learn to Play Guitar √, Fireworks on […]
WELCOME BACK!! Another Summer of Funner has begun! Here’s our Summer Love-to-Do List for 2015 : Sunset Canoeing, Small Town Parade, Bonfire S’mores, Early Morning Birding, Electricity Experiments, Family Film Fest, Lego Skyscraper Build, Putting on a Play, All the Farmer’s Markets, Family Yoga, Backyard Camping, Scoring a Baseball Game, Sidewalk Mural, Making Moving Vehicles, […]
The Lunchbox Season is up and running! Click on the image above to access our Fall Love to Do List!
It’s Summer of Funner 2014! The Summer of Ability: Invention, Imagination, and Independence. Originally, we thought that our theme for the summer was going to be “Summer of Funner Nights.” However, when I broke my hand and had corrective surgery a few weeks ago, the kids and I decided that we wanted our summer to […]
Okay, I have to admit it, while it’s our FORTnight or Backyard Campout season, I haven’t been sleeping outside with the kids. I’m still wearing my cast at night, and so this makes camping particularly uncomfortable for me. So, to fill out my “half” of the bargain, I volunteered for “gourmet” breakfast duty! To kick […]
This is more of a love letter than a traditional post … One of the best pieces of prose I’ve read in a long time has got to be Kelly Alexander’s Introduction to her new cookbook, Peaches: A Savor the South Cookbook.* I bought the book because Kelly is a friend of mine from university, […]
Several years ago, decades ago, as the case may be, my husband and his parents painted an outdoor mural on a piece of plywood and installed it at the back left-hand corner of their garden. Whenever I even think of going over to their house, this is the image that comes to mind: a large face or mask, […]
Aside from reading Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare to them before they go to bed at night, how do you prep your kids for Summer Theatre going, especially Shakespeare? Here’s how we get started every summer… Three Super Fun Ways to Prep the Kids for a Shakespeare Play [or Other Theatre] 1. WATCH ADAPTATIONS … the stranger […]
Our sister site, The Lunchbox Season runs from September through June each year. The Lunchbox Season Archive 2011-2012 Fall 2011 Fruit Leather 101 Paint, Party, Pack 2 x 2 Ways to Resuscitate Those “Lunchboxed” Bananas “Glamming-Up Your Cans Lab #1: Canning Label Design Bakery Knock-Offs for Beginners: Cookie Meteors: Bakesale Bestsellers: Sugar Cookie Wands The Kids […]
2011 Ten Weeks Brainstorming the Calendar Yesterday Books Clay-dough aka Canada Day Strawberry Day Mustard Tastings and Turtle Talk Pomme Day Sketch Day at the AGO Chocolate Day Sketching (Again) at the ROM Pizza Day “Save the Riverdale Farm” Sketches Marshmallow Day Just a Bit of News The Day in Condiments Library Day: T-shirts and […]
Our sister site, The Lunchbox Season, is up and running! Check out our first two posts! Fall Love-to-Do List A to Z September Unplugged [2] : 7 More Ways to Unwind this Month Enjoy!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If the other week was about the Manga Selfie, this week is all about the “shelfie!” Recently, one of us saw a gorgeous book bag which featured a shelf full of beloved book spines on offer from a big-name publisher. It was beautiful, and we wanted it. But, then, we thought, why not make our own? So, […]
This year, instead of using our own free printable theatre reviews to respond to the plays we saw at the Stratford Festival, we decided to ask the kids for shorter, impromptu responses. Inspired by their dad’s season-long toronto #bluejays haiku project, or his #jaysseasonhaiku, we asked the kids to write haiku responses to the plays they saw at Stratford this summer. […]
