Naptime Everyday: Recipes for Everyday Cooking and Baking

What’s Going on Today: Fun morning at the playground and beach, easy picnic lunch outdoors. Naptime Goals: Make Chocolate Chip Coconut Oatmeal Cookies just because, marinate chicken, laundry, vacuum sand out of the car (!) Tonight’s Menu: Rosemary Lemon Chicken, Carrot Souffle, Arugula Salad. Parenting Lesson of the Day: You can never have too many […]

What’s Going on Today: Hanging out in Cooperstown for the Fourth. Lots of fun in the sun, planning for an afternoon boat trip. Naptime Goals: Lesson from Mom on how to make her awesome Gazpacho. Tonight’s Menu: Gazpacho, Turkey Burgers, salad, ice-cream. Parenting Lesson of the Day: Don’t tease toddlers about fish eating their toes, […]

What’s Going on Today: Heatwave continues: slow stroll to morning Farmer’s Market, quick stop at Arts and Crafts show on town green. Naptime Goals: Set garlic, olive oil and basil to marinate for salad. Pre-chop mozzarella and tomatoes. Tonight’s Menu: BBQ chicken, Caprese Pasta Salad, Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies. Parenting Lesson of the Day: I […]

What’s Going on Today: 6am wake-up call (wha?!) from daughter, out and about eeeaaaarly. Errands around town, trip to playground, picnic lunch. Naptime Goals: Make Vegetable Quiche for dinner tonight, catch up on things around the house and maybe take a quick nap before daughter wakes up! Tonight’s Menu: Slice of vegetable quiche, white wine, […]

What’s Going On Today: Rainy day in CT, sing-along at the beach before cloudburst, errands in the afternoon. Naptime Goals: Strawberry-Raspberry Cobbler, roast vegetables, marinate chicken. Tonight’s Menu: Chicken with Veggies, Cobbler (our second one this week!) with Strawberries from the farmer’s market. Parenting Lesson of the Day: When conversing with toddlers always have a […]

What’s Going on Today: Rainy day fun at Stepping Stones, pluck fresh rosemary from herb pot for pizza dough. Naptime Goals: Bake Butterscotch Chocolate Chunk Blondies, prepare pizza dough. Tonight’s Menu: Whole-Wheat Rosemary Pizza with Fresh Mozzarella, Carrot Souffle (already in the fridge), Blondies. Parenting Lesson of the Day: A hearty thank you to the […]

What Going on Today: My Mom is visiting us in CT to help take care of her granddaughter while I finish unpacking and do errands! Naptime Goals: Organize paperwork for household bills, assemble meat sauce for dinner. Set Green Beans to marinate. Tonight’s Menu: Ziti, Marinated Green Beans. Wine. Parenting Lesson of the Day: Grandparents. […]

What’s Going on Today: Almost finished unpacking! Morning walk to Main Street to get tea and check out the childrens section at the local library. Naptime Goals: Bake Apple Bread to take to friend’s house, organize cookbooks on new kitchen shelves. Tonight’s Menu: Dinner at a friend’s house. Parenting Lesson of the Day: It is […]

What’s Going on Today: After all the packing… we are finally unpacking. Naptime Goals: Unpack the kitchen (my top priority, obviously!) Tonight’s Menu: Take-out from the mexican place up the street we can’t wait to try. Parenting Lesson of the Day: Sometime change is good, even for kids. So, we’ve moved. It was a stressful, […]

What’s Going on Today: Boxes, packing, general mayhem. Picked up new shower curtain for upstairs bathroom in new place. Naptime Goals: Finish packing clothes, confirm movers. Tonight’s Menu: Springtime Asparagus Pizza from Food52. Wine. Lots of wine. Parenting Lesson of the Day: Kids are more resilient then we give them credit for. Despite the growing […]

What’s Going on Today: Finalizing things with the movers, taking advantage of last few days in New York! Naptime Goals: Make Lemon Coconut Squares for picnic in Central Park tomorrow. Tonight’s Menu: Leftover Roast Chicken, Green Beans with Walnuts, Lemon Coconut Squares for dessert (we don’t have to take the whole batch to our picnic, […]

What Going on Today: Up waaaaayy too early this morning! Have to start packing boxes. We officially move in 2 weeks. Sad. Naptime Goals: Make Polenta steaks using my new favorite recipe. Work on address changes, squeeze in a little R&R for me, too. Tonight’s Menu: Chive Polenta Steaks, green salad. Parenting Lesson of the […]