tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33732434892457596602012-01-06T13:49:25.045-05:00Taking care of two boys, a husband and a dog in brooklyn as best I can.reginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01837116535077288986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373243489245759660.post-15514428770405692262011-12-12T12:21:00.000-05:002011-12-12T12:21:00.826-05:00

Have some random people to give gifts to? People you want to give a little something to whilst not breaking the bank? People who you want to jazz up that coffeehouse gift card for?Well here's one idea....Coffee Cozies. What you need: Felt (I used 100% wool felt cause I had it, but other options include an old felted sweater, craft felt, heck even 2 pieces of cotton will work)

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So word has gotten out that we have a serious lover of the holidays in our house. We came home today to find wonderful gifts on our porch, perfect for the boys and totally easy to do every year from now on...One of my knitting group had unearthed a bunch of mini ornaments and had no use for them, so she left them on our porch for the boys to use, I was not sure how I was going to incorporate the

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Make and Bake OrnamentsOnce you have a forest full of Christmas trees you need something to decorate them with...That's where sculpey clay comes in. Sculpey clay is pretty much awesome. You can get it in lots of colors, in regular playdoh-esque modeling clay form, in air-dry form, and in my personal favorite: oven bake.This clay is readily available at your local craft/big box store and the

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Attack of the Christmas Trees!The room now has 20 glittery snowflakes in white and blue hanging from the ceiling, we did not make these but bought them for $1.00 at Walmart. My first 'grown-up' tree featured dollar store ornaments that were similar to these and truth be told I still have those first ones tucked away in our ornament stash and use them on the tree for filler some years. That first

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My 4 year old has an intense love of Christmas decorations, a love that I may have fed into by referring to (what will be) our dining room as "the Christmas room" all of last year. You see not many of the rooms in the house are what they will eventually become and we out the tree in this room last year, so in my head it is the Christmas tree room until it is settled into an actual dining room....

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Well I have achieved my goal of 11 things in 2011- and I still have a few months to go! I may not have the energy to plant in the garden this year but I am loving the quiet time of the afternoon when the boys run around the yard and I sit with a cup of tea on the porch knitting or sewing. I think I am channelling Ma Ingalls..which reminds me we just netflix queued the whole Little House series

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Well I've been busy working on all sorts of crafty things. I have sewed my first market bag.I think it is lovely even with some wonky stitching...It was simple too! But of course I forgot to take a picture of it before I sent it off to a friend....I slowed down on knitting because I have been illish- lots of allergy sinus stuff and no knitting mojo. But my Shalom Sweater is almost done, I have

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The most important work in progress is 16 weeks old. I can 't believe I am ONLY almost halfway through this pregnancy- I feel like I've been pregnant FOREVER. Part of this feeling I think comes from actually trying for the baby this time around, it took 7 looooong months after the miscarriage to have a positive test and I still an freaked out that something is going to go wrong. But so far, so

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I have been busy knitting. No I never did get that dress for that wedding, nor did I finish the blanket that was to be the wedding present....why? Because I've been busy. Busy growing a BABY!!! It is official. I am now 13.5 weeks along with baby #3. The end, the last, the finish to the family. A little tadpole who hops every time an ultrasound wand passes over. A gummy bear looking child who made

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Braved the million degree weather at the market this Saturday and spent $80.We bought: 1 lb chop meat 2 lbs kabob meat 1 lb sandwich steaks1 qt peaches1 qt raspberries1 bunch carrots1 watermelon1 lb spinach and watercress4 tomatoes1 loaf of bread1 lb of cheese1 bunch onions3 heads garlic2 lbs green beans3 lbs potatoesIt's been insanely hot here and I have been really sick. Heat and pregnancy do

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The garden is looking a little ragged these days- between the heat and the trampling from the fawns I'm not sure how much we will harvest in the coming weeks. There is also a raccoon that seems partial to green beans...How do I know you ask? because last night two spooky eyes peered at me from the top of the bean tee-pee, before it toppled over. The birds have been swooping into the beans too, to

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We went to the market today after a bit of a hiatus. I still need to process all of our cherries (we picked 6.5 lbs last week), I still need to do something with the basil in the yard, and the lettuce is out of control. We are behind on EVERYTHING lately- we were away, I have been soo tired and lazy summer days are getting the best of us.Today we went to market with $80. We came home with $12.

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Market day this week happened to be right after our first CSA Farm share pickup. We are sharing a share with another family so only got one head of lettuce, some mint, a tomato plant, scallions and some decorative rye grass. We are at Common Ground Farm which is the same place we go to farm school on fridays, so it is a farm filled day over all.Anyway at market I spent $96 dollars, which is crazy

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This weekend we are taking our first family camping trip. So we spent a lot of time this week preparing for it. I am used to pack everything into one backpack style camping, so there was a lot of thought switching going on this week for me. We are going with a group of people who we don't really know and there is a Walmart like 20 minutes from where we will be in tents. Weird to me. Also it is

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So I bought 8 quarts of strawberries this weekend for roughly $50. I transformed those strawberries into jam, butter and dehydrated treats. We are gearing up for our first family camping trip, so I am sure not all the dried stuff will make it to the winter but the jam and butter will.We used 4 quarts of strawberries to make 3 pints of utilatarian jam. This is our basic, no frills, eat it on pb

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My shalome cardi is moving along nicely. I am working on the body. I forgot to shape the waist so I am hoping it blocks out right for the button holes to work, I think it will. I really love this pattern and have a feeling that when I am done I will make another at some point.I am frantically working on a blanket for a friend's wedding shower. It is the Cabled Wedding Blanket. I am working it in

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This weekend the Coldspring Market was outdoors. So many more vendors! There was wine, an herbalist who had tinctures and honey and maple syrup,and there were a few plant people. I had $100 dollars to spend, and I spent $160... I must remember that if it is a meat week I have to have more than usual. At least until we can go berry picking for canning. The majority of our money went to

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Yay! First canning weekend of the Spring. When we were at farm school last week we ate some dandelion jello. The instructor could not find any powdered pectin so just mixed in some gelatin to make a lovely yellow snack for the kids. We tried to make the dandelion jelly at home, but it did not set up right. But how lovely does this giant cup of dandelion heads look?The recipe is this: 4 cups

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I took my poison ivied self to the Cold Spring Market this morning armed with $140. Man oh man was it packed. Where were these people during the winter? Especially the annoying ones who were pushy as they picked over the asparagus lamenting over how they "can't even stand to buy from california anymore". Really? These are the people who give the local foods folk a bad rap. It is all fine and good

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I can not seem to get it together these past few weeks. Last week I missed a meeting with the nursery group, this week I totally spaced on some other plans.I have been really out of it for a few days for no apparent reason at all. I think my brain is melting in the heat. Yeah sure it is only like 75 degrees right now, but I am melting when we step outside. And we have been outside 24/7 it seems.

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No that lovely bit of knitting is not mine. My Shalom is green. A green that does not show up very nicely on crap mobile phone pictures. But a green that is beautiful in person. The colorway is called Shire. It is dark green with these little shots of golden and pale green. It puts in mind a lawn that is just waking up in the springtime sun. Perfect for knitting now (if it were not to hot and

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It is still Wednesday right? Well. I still have yet to cast on that dress, and now I am attempting to start it whilst participating in my first ever Knit Along. I have had the Shalom Cardigan in my queue FOREVER. It was supposed to be my Rhinebeck sweater 2010, but because I wanted to modify the heck out of it I went with the Tea Leaves instead. But now, oh now, now I find that the modifications

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This week we talked about Passover. No, we are not Jewish but I love the plagues story and I love the sedar foods. My favorite memory of school is from learning about Passover in Kindergarten with Mr. Eisenberg. I went to an NYC public school so our learning about Passover took a little bit of a secular stance; we took a field trip and made butter! We walked over to the local Key Food- M.

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It is Wednesday again. Some weeks I have to look at the calendar to see the day and date, other weeks we are on top of things and have some schedule. This was a look at the calendar week....I still have yet to purchase a new camera and the weather is still so gross.Gardening has gone by the wayside a little bit, but we did fill in one third of our 9X20 plot with soil and compost to get it ready.

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After taking some time off from the preparedness challenge we are back into it this week. We have always had an emergency bag packed and ready to go. Or at least I have always had one for myself...When I was in MT one of the VISTA projects that was started via Homeland Security was the creation of emergency bag kits for people across the state. It was the summer of 2002, 9/11 was fresh in

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It's friday again...I am pretty done being mom this week I have to admit. We are all coming off of being sick and everyone is just cranky. And cranky for my boys equals running around like lunatics who are deaf. So yeah I am just done. But the sun is shinning and we can play in the garden a bit so it is getting better....This week we made seed bombs. I am participating in the creation of a town

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I feel like it's been forever since writing. We all got the plague right at the end of knitters week so even getting out of bed was a chore. And when we did get out of bed it was only to travel down the stairs to the pullout couch, where we watched endless hours of netflix tv. Turns out the boys did have a virus, did need antibiotics and did just need sleep. We are 98% better now, lingering

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So Day 6 of knit and crochet blog week...We were asked to write about a skill we want to have, something we aspire to knit. Well. Have you seen my kids' Irish Sweaters? Yeah I didn't knit them. The story goes that some old aunt made them many many many years ago (possibly as long as 43 yrs ago but definitely at least 39 years ago because according to my mother my older brother wore one of them

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We have been crafting up a storm here. The weather took a turn for the worst and the boys were getting too comfortable in the movie watching (though how much fun is Phineas and Ferb?) and running around the house. It was a good week to try some new things. So I busted out the wool roving. It is something we have not worked a lot with and I am intrigued by the whole felting process.I've wanted to

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Operation Bunny Egg Cozy is a go....

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Day 4- Where are they now?Let me tell you a little story of the first thing I ever knitted for myself. I went to college right near WEBS. Yup that Internet yarn mecca was a hop skip and jump away from my college; where I learned to knit. Our Dean or Assistant Dean I don't remember of Student Affairs started a knitting circle, for all of us poor Hampshire kids who didn't come to college already

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Today's topic? Stash and organization. There are so many lovely blogs with beautiful pictures of yarn and creative storage options, that I kind of feel bad that I am posting too! I don't have a huge stash. In fact I only really started to acquire yarn in october. Before that it was very much buy as I go, and try to make something out of the few skeins I had. When I started going to group I bought

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29th March. Skill + 1UP: Look back over your last year of projects and compare where you are in terms of skill and knowledge of your craft to this time last year. Have you learned any new skills or forms of knitting/crochet (can you crochet cable stitches now where you didn’t even know such things existed last year? Have you recently put a foot in the tiled world of entrelac? Had you even picked

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Yippee! Last year I kind of just skulked around the Blog Hub Group on Ravelry for this week of fiber posts, and this year I am jumping in!Today's topic is "A tale of two yarns" which is perfect for me because I am just beginning to really understand yarn . I still dive off the deep end buying something that looks pretty, or feels soft, but I am beginning to have some favorites. I can't afford to

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Cold Spring Market is getting bigger as the weeks go by, the weather getting warmer brings out more shoppers and more vendors...Today the 3 Chicks Sugar Shack were there. I should have bought a maple cupcake, but instead I bought a quart of syrup and a bourbon barrel matured syrup to send to my army brother. I just think a pig roast in the desert needs bourbon maple syrup...I have a feeling I

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This week the weather turned on us. It went from lovely and warm to cold and snowy overnight. The stir crazy creeped in with the cold...So we had a painting dance party. I have visions of the "spare" room being a little craft sanctuary, and while I love our floors I don't mind them getting a little painty (and thank goodness for our steam mop that got up most of the paint)Our setup was simple, a

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The back 40 are still being de-sodded. I really must take some measurements to see how much I am really working with. It is back aching work to dig up all the grass, pick it over for worms and toss aside; and yet I balk at the idea of renting a tiller. I have it in my head that we are going to do this from scratch in the most traditional way as possible but we shall see if my tune changes when it

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Some of you might know I married a crazy person. Well crazy in the sense that he really does believe that 2012 is the end. I believe some history channel Nostradamus who-ha on repeat while he was out of work is to blame; or maybe I just never knew about his particular brand of crazy until 6 years into our relationship...Anyway part of his rationale for moving up to Beacon was that it would be

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In honor of St. Paddy's Day this week we made leprechaun traps and rainbow cupcakes. The rainbow cupcakes came from here. The fun part was mixing all the colors- we've been reading mousepaint lately so Joe was really into the color mixing....and he really liked the "rainbow of bowls". We used regular liquid food coloring so the colors were pretty bright, but they could have been better. I envy

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Today I have no photos because I have been lazy...I had a few starts and stops on some knitting projects this week that caused me to rip out A LOT of progress...But I did finish another blanket bunny and a little diaper bag pouch for a friend who just had a baby, and I picked out a pattern for another friend who is picking up her adopted son next week. So I count myself semi-productive.Oh and I

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Ahhh St. Patrick's Day (week)- an annual rite of spring that brings a flurry of parade going, bar hopping, cleaning and tons of eating. I am sad to say we have not been to any parades in our new home yet; even with Joe dancing we didn't now schedules before making other plans. Next year we will be more prepared. Both boys are at grandma's this weekend so the hubby and I can go on the Pub Crawl

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Creativity has been hard lately. The weather is putting us all in a lazy, movie watching, homebound funk. The kids have been playing in the sink, and making elaborate train setups, and I have been knitting and thinking about garden plots. But we have not been playing with paint, or paper or glue or scissors... We had a great routine going and now I am faltering and failing. My motivation and

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Today is Ash Wednesday. The beginning of Lent, which is supposed to be full of sacrifices and good works. I am uninspired this year. In the past I used Lent as like a second New Year's resolution time, this year I just don't know. Our lives have become so sparse with goodies that I think denying myself might lead to disaster. I don't drink with any regularity for it to make sense anymore to give

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This weekend Joe got to go to Grandma's...We had two success poops without prompting...sure we had a few accidents but I am taking what I an get. We also were doing our taxes so we all went...Anyway, the master gardeners from Cornell were at the farmers market this weekend, they were doing seed starting in paper pots, soil testing and just giving out general advice. These ladies were WONDERFUL.

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I've been knitting up a storm lately. I decided back when we moved up here that I was going to throw myself into the hobby as a way to meet some people, and to take up that lonely space in my mind. It helped that I thought I would be knitting for a baby- yes as soon as I peed on the stick I started thinking and planning a wardrobe for what would be our last child. Luckily some friends and my

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Everyone is home this weekend. It is hard to have the two kids and the husband home on the weekends. That sounds awful, I know. BUT it is hard, the husband wakes up at 3 am everyday to go to work, he gets home in time for dinner (by 4:30 he is in the house) and quiet time and then bed. He is asleep on the couch by about 8pm; usually just after Joe stops fussing in bed and I return to the land of

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This week Jude once again went to Grandma's. I got to go to the Coldspring Market by myself on saturday. I had big plans. Honey, and Soap, and Bread and Cheese...You see we paid all the bills on time this month (!) and there was actually some money left over to buy things! Things like a nice dinner out (ok we went to the local Mexican place YUM!) and a new knitting pattern and MEAT!So armed with

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Jude was at grandma's without us this weekend. We are trying something a little torturous with Joe in terms of potty training. He has it pretty much down for peeing; he FINALLY will just go on his own (though he still needs the reminder if he is playing) but the poop has been a fight from the beginning. He just refuses to go on the toilet. He would rather go into a corner somewhere. And I don't

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Today I am still trying to formulate a post about Uncle Mike. I am still trying to navigate the waters of death and explaining dying to a 4 year old. Joe is mildly obsessed with "that dead man in the box that we saw" and the wake is something he will never forget- thanks to the 4 stitches he received during it. Yes I have the child who has to be rushed to the ER during a solemn event. He fell

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40 bucks this week bought: 8 apples8 carrots1 lb green beans3 cider donuts3 croissants1 sausage pepper cheese pocket2 lamb spring rolls1 lb of coffee6 orange madeleinesI dont know what we are eating this week. We will be spending a portion of it in Queens attending a funeral.

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I need to get back into routine. The winter weather and the plaque that befell the house really threw us all off, and I have yet to recover from it all.I started this year with a gym schedule, a cleaning schedule, a life schedule...and now I have not been to the gym in roughly 2 weeks, the house is a mess and life is getting the best of me. The snow has been a huge factor in all of this. Our

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After spending a good portion of saturday hanging on various railings around the house, knocking icicles off the gutters with hockey sticks, Joe and I headed to the market.We spent $40 this week on3/4 of a lb baby spinach1 lb of carrots2 loaves of bread4 lamb spring rolls2 lbs of clams2 lbs of mussels6 sweet potatoes1 ice popThen we went to the regular grocery store (Price Chopper) where we spent

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Last week the hubby came home from work with a barking cough and an aching body. It was to be expected, especially in light of the fact that he bikes to the train (yes even in the snow and -5 degree mornings) and gets a grand total of (roughly) 6 hours of sleep a night. You see he wakes up every morning at 3:30/4 am in order to get his train into the city... So we knew it was just a matter of

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We went to the Cold Spring Farmer's Market today. I think this is going to be our regular saturday market as it has my favorites from the Beacon Market as well as a rotating schedule of meats. I knew that we had to buy meat this week so I went to the market anticipating spending a small fortune, and having to be creative about our menu this week. I took $50 bucks with me and whatever singles were

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it's 2011. I thought we would all be flying around in Jetsons like paradise by now, or robots would have destroyed the world by now. It's funny watching movies where they reference the future, only to find yourself living there. Having been in school up until basically last year I find it hard to think of January as the start; for me september holds the newness, september is when you are supposed

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How the heck is it 2011 already? How is it that I have lived in this house for 3 months and still don't know where the good corkscrew is (hint- it's still in a box in the basement)? We are still living partially in boxes. Part of me want to say enough is enough and just throw everything that is still in the basement out onto the curb in some sort of giant free pile. But that would lose me my good

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So today is day 3 in the NEW HOUSE! yup a new house, in a new town; where I know not a soul save for the realtor...I thought it would b easy, I'd breeze into town and start talking to folks at the farmers market, bring Joe to school and meet other parents at drop off...but nooooooI went to the farmers market with the dog. It is a lot farther away on foot than via car, I was parched and tired and

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So technically I like nature. However I do not like it when it rears its ugly green head and looks at me menacingly. Like this evening when I went out to gather the tomatoes, I ran into a very hungry caterpillar; and by run into I mean my arm brushed up against it, yelped like a little girl and threw the offending branch that it was sitting on into the BBQ. That's right I threw it into the BBQ,

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I have been dreaming of tomatoes lately. In my dreams I wake up to a garden full of giant, beautifully ripe red and orange and pink tomatoes. These tomatoes hang on vines that are perfectly groomed, with little drops of dew clinging to the leaves and nary a blotch to ruin this perfection. But then I wake up and am greeted by the overgrown, not so groomed green tomato wasteland that is our garden

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Holy moly I have a one year old today! Where did the time go? He just started walking and there are 8 teeth in his mouth, but I still feel like he was born yesterday...How did this ball of cheeks and forehead become this little person? It is overwhelming to me.We spent the day talking about Joe's memories of when Jude was born. In Joe's words "Wait Wait! Mommy. First Judey was in your belly, and

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Its all tomatoes, except where it is squash...I probably should have pruned back the tomatoes or at least staked them better, but they are growing well and wild. There are tons of little flower shoots and a bunch of little green tomato starts on all the plants, and the squash has a few blossoms already. I resist the urge to pick the squash blossoms since I'm not sure if you harvest them you will

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Doesn't get closer to home than the backyard.....I spent about 200 bucks on a garden this year, this included cement blocks to mark out our territory, dirt, peat moss, steel rods for stakes and plants. We pulled the weeds that were choking the yard pulled up the existing brick walkway, laid down trash bags to keep weeds to a minimum then filled the whole thing with soil. I bought a mix of plants

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We spent the Fourth of July weekend at my parents house in Long Island. For me going to see my folks is both peaceful and terribly stressful. When I am there I don't feel like a capable 30 year old mother of 2; I feel like the 16 year old who got caught drinking in the neighbor boy's basement. I don't know how to talk to my parents as an adult, and I don't think they always know how to see me

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I took advantage of the kind nature of our green grocer. Seriously I feel a little bad about it. But he had blueberries for 99 cents! I took 4 pints of New Jersey Grown blueberries and 1 pint of blackberries because I had this idea that I would make a red white and blue cobbler for the Fourth (raspberries are coming in our CSA share tonight)...but then we got home and the boys did this....Which

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Here's what has been keeping me away from the computer for so long. It's been crazy hot and busy here...We love Brighton Beach! Personally I love it because there is always someone who is larger and more pasty white than me wearing less then me!Building sand castlesFalling off the 100 mile wagon at Citi Field...Holy Moly Disco fries are delicious!What's a seventh inning stretch without Peanuts

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Its been awhile. We've been doing so much lately despite the heat that makes my face melt off. There's been beaching (where I discover Jude has even less fear than Joe in terms of water! Heart attack for me!) there has been lots of fooding with the start of our CSA shares (our fingers are seemingly permanently stained from berry juices) and quite a bit of house hunting. I have pictures to share

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Over the weekend I took Joe to the market with me. It is really hard to take him to the market, what with his fruit stealing habit and his fly like attention span... I don't know what I was thinking when I woke up at 6:30am and said "Joe do you want to visit the farmers with me?"Anyway there were strawberries abound at the market. The cheapest were 4 bucks or so for a quart.But the strawberries

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Last week I wrote a recipe that I got from my mom many years ago. When I was in college, I was obsessed with capturing my mother on paper. It started from taking a class with Barbara Yngvesson who in an anthropology professor that deals in those tricky waters called family. The class was called Culture, Identity and Belonging, it dealt with how people view themselves in the space they inhabit,

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Sleeping through the night with monkey Cake #2 at Grandma's House over the weekend A night at Gaelic Park Not Allergic to Blackberries

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I am a bad 100 miler. Life is getting in the way. Saturday dawned with the hubby having to work, and Joe at grandma's. Jude and I slept in until 7 am (my god when did 7 am become sleeping in?) and never went to the market. Firstly we still have stuff from last week's green grocer (some asparagus, carrots, potatoes and spinach) so we really didn't need anything and secondly Jude is heavy. He is 23

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I own a few cookbooks. But I don't really use them. I have one that I hand wrote in college that I use the most. The recipes in this one are a combination of a few of my favorites in Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything which I literally hand copied over the course of a weekend, various Martha Stewart Magazine recipes, some cut outs from newspapers and favorite family meals. The family meal ones

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I have been following this crafty crow blog for a little while now, it is a great resource for all things kids crafty around the web and they are doing a fantastic giveaway right now.so get over there and check it out!and here is today's toddler pic (which made me think about the crow)"Captain! I see treasure over der! Let's go get it before the CAW CAW CAW birds do!"

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It is monday again, and again I have fallen off the wagon. I've been a little sickly, nothing much just allergies and trouble breathing in the humid pollution. The kids are also stuffy and wheezy-ish. So we all slept late on saturday, then we went to a AudraRox concert that benefited Alexandra's Playground, then we rallied to save the libraries and then we ate take out for dinner. On Sunday we

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Dinner- pasta with peashoot greens, italian sweet sausage, asparagus and WINE! A Birthday cake that I didn't make...carvel was requested by the 3 yr old "Momma! I just a clown today" (it is red paint) "Now I a super hero clown- HE - YAH!"

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No market this weekend for me. I over bought last week it seems (and we got lazy this week so didn't eat often at home). We still have asparagus and some radishes, which will get us through until thursday market...It was a lazy weekend all around, saturday we had a birthday party to go to and sunday was Mother's (mothers'?) Day. Joe's birthday is today! He is 3. Today we are making a cake of some

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Our "Grow-No-LaLa" or further proof that I am really a Hippie at heart. It is a super basic recipe that at the heart is just toasted oats with wheat germ and honey. We try not to do nut snacks because Joe tends to share them with everyone we meet. So I guess this recipe was really born out of our love of oatmeal and the desire to eat it cold in the park...2 cups rolled oatsa splash of cinnamona

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"Shhhh Jude Mommy takin' a picture!"

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I am dying for fruit. I am loving the asparagus and the rhubarb (today we are making a rhubarb cake yum!) but dear god if I don't get some fruit I am going to go insane. We did buy some fruit shares a tour local CSA. Two shares to be exact, hopefully there will be enough to eat one and store the other. My experiments in canning are continuing. I've been obsessively looking at two blogs for

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I am not a foodie. Well I don't think of myself as a foodie. I just like good food, and have these really intense sense memories that involve food. Friends used to say that they knew when I was into a guy by the amount of food I would make for him. These food as love/lust included pies, cookies, cakes, breads, muffins and once, a three course meal featuring handmade raviolis. And yet I was

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Over the weekend my hubby found a dollhouse on the curb near our house. He called me saying "Hey I just found a dollhouse, I'm going to bring it home" It has been keeping Joe entertained for 4 whole days so far.....

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So this week we had a little bit of extra money due to our tax refund, so after putting as much as we could into the "please let us be able to afford a house" fund I hit the market. I had decided to 'put up" some of the first shoots of asparagus and rhubarb. I think I am doing this backward though as every food blog/canning blog I've been reading seems to wait until the end of a season when

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So this past weekend I was out on Long Island visiting my parents and sisters. I thought we would not get to the market since we were leaving early in the morning (and I am not an early riser), but when I found myself awake at 6 am the plans changed. I found myself with an asparagus hankering; a hankering that would not hold out another week. So I got up and out of bed by 6:30, and got on the

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Cherry Blossom's at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.

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Can anyone identify this green?I bought it on saturday from the Gorzynski Ornery Farm stand. This stand is one of my favorites at the market, for the sheer character of it. I have to get a photo someday. The stall is wooden crates filled with greens of all kinds. Honestly it looks like they went through the farm, weeded and then threw the weeds into crates to sell. There is ONE sign written in

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Seriously don't stand to close to me, I stink. That's right I said it, I am smelly. It has to do with the amount of Ramps I've been eating (at least I think it does). Ramps or "Wild Leeks" are these pungent flat leafed greens that look kind of like a fanned out scallion, they taste like the bastard child of garlic and onion. But I am making them not sound good. They are delicious. In fact in

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The day before my birthday we decided to try to do some egg hunts. We tried the Queens County Farm Museum, but the line was insane, so we went to the Zoo instead.we stopped for lunch at McDonald's (not so 100 mile huh!) where Joe obtained a dragon and a helmet.We rode the carousel. It was Jude's first time on one with horses.Then we went home and dyed eggs for the Easter Bunnyover all a nice way

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It is not going so well. Last week found me in the diner eating pancakes with Joe, having conventional carrots, and drunk on cheap pink zinfandel. The 100 mile challenge was ushered in with a catered lasagna Easter Dinner "made" by my mother in law, complete with a store bought birthday cake (while my homemade beauty languished in the fridge). Then we had a lovely first 100 mile meal which

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IT BEGINS.and it begins poorly. Today is the first official day of 100 mile eating. And where did lunch find me and Joe? In the diner eating pancakes and spinach pie. Dinner will be better we are having the last (and I do mean last) of our first month's meat share. We are still finishing up groceries as time goes by, so there will be nonlocal stuff here and there- for instance I made a cake

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100 mile monday on tuesday! Crazy! It has been raining, and raining, and raining here in Brooklyn. The daffodils are up in our front yard and looking bedraggled, the backyard is a swamp and there is talk of flooding on the belt parkway. So once again I wonder about the farms. In my head carrots and potatoes are floating to the surface, and seeds are being washed away...but then I realize that the

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A lovely lady named Evelyn (who adopted two sweet boys when my sister adopted her daughter) did a photo montage of one day out of her life in March. Last year there were no children and this year Ta-Da two! This is my day in photos; I think I'll try to document one full day every couple of months just so I can see where we are at.... The day really began at about 5am when Jude came into bed with

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Only 2 weeks left until this "officially" begins. We spent the weekend talking about CSA shares (we're going to go with the one near us) and not going to the market....The crowds are going to kill me in the nice weather. I do not like crowds. I especially do not like crowds when I am trying to accomplish something. We may need to switch markets as the wether gets nicer, we shall see.We decided to

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Toddler tuesday is being preempted today, mostly because I have no uploaded any photos or video lately...We just got word that a CSA is opening in our area. Well relatively close to our neighborhood, it would be a quick drive away, but no trains would be involved. BUT they don't have fruit share information yet. We also just got word that the waiting list we were on for another CSA has started to

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We haven't been to the market in two weeks due to parade season starting and the weather being insane. It is worrisome in the sense that it is easy to NOT go. What will we do in less than 4 weeks when the 100 mile actually starts? I've also been thinking about vacations and keeping up with the demand of putting up for winter. One of the things that Kingslover (Animal Vegetable, Miracle) laments

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Remember that chicken I bought last week? It is in my oven right now. and um it has FEET. still attached (well not anymore, I chopped them off). Have you ever seen a chicken with feet? The feet look like baby fingers. Long wrinkly, crypyt keeper baby fingers.I didn't think I was all that squemish in terms of food, but there was a chicken with FEET on my counter not 10 minutes ago. FEET. with

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Just call him Pollock

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The post is coming, and it includes lots of MEAT! stay tuned....

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So this past week we had a bunch of snow. Some said it was a hurricane of snow, or a snowrricane...Joe just called it fun. We ended up with about a foot and a half (up to my knees and higher in some places) in our backyard.Joe is making snow tunnels. "For the mouse to get his motorcyle home."All afternoon he was taking little licks of snow whenever it got close to his face. He was sneaky about it

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So last week I said that I would try to get down to $40 at the farmer's market. Well I didn't. I went to the market at 8am the day after a snowrricane (that's right a snow hurricane- that's what NY1 called it and so am I). I went by myself as the kids slept with the Hubby. It was kind of sad not having Joe there to pick out a new "adventure veggie-table", but it was a faster trip for sure.I

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