Category: winter
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Snow happy!
> The robins are pecking at the ground in our garden, as the weather seems to be bringing some warmer days. As the last of our snow melted away, we soaked up all we could before this loooooong cold end of winter. We read these 2 very cute books we thought we’d share, “snow happy”…
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>Borax crystal snowflakes
>All the snow that has been falling lately around here inspired us this week to create our own snowflakes. There are a lot of recipes out there for forming crystals and we chose to do ours with borax, which you can find in any supermarket’s laundry soap area. (Remember that you must use regular pure…
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>Molasses snow candy
>I don’t know if you are… but we are HUGE little house on the prairie fans!! One of our favorite books is “Little house on the big woods” by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The chapter about winter days and the one about christmas always has us wishing we lived in that time with Laura and Mary,…
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>Christmas moments
>Hi there!!! Hope everyone is enjoying a beautiful holiday season and may your new year be a healthy and joyous one! We’ve been so busy doing, making, baking and enjoying family and friends that we have not blogged much… But here a some snap shots of some of our holiday moments. Candy cane peppermint cupcakes…
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>Perfect roasted chestnuts
>We adore chestnuts here. I would love it if we had a fireplace and we could roast them over an open fire. But that’s ok. The oven is just as good!The other day we found an actual chestnut tree in one of our walks! We collected these and I did not know that chestnuts actually…
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>Christmas in the big apple.
>We took a couple of days off from homeschooling to do some nostalgic holiday roaming through NYC. Growing up there as a kid, I used to take city for granted but now, years later, I reminisce of those fragrant chestnuts roasting in food trucks, salty pretzels, all the holiday lights, the shows and strolling through…
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>101 things we plan to do this winter
>Winter is just around the corner… I can feel it in the air. I’ve sadly put away the flip flops and before we bring out our woolly coats, Honeypie and I are layering. We’ve got sweaters and jean jackets and we hope to delay winter just a little bit longer.This weekend we sat down…