The other night I had the pleasure of attending a benefit concert for my good friend Mariska Hargitay’s Joyful Heart Foundation. It’s an incredible organization dedicated to helping survivors of sexual assault and domestic abuse. Check out their website at www.joyfulheartfoundation.org/ The show was excellent. Here’s Sheryl Crow playing:
I was lucky enough to make another visit to Prentiss’ class. This time we had birthday cupcakes and then I read a book to the class. We used crushed cookies and gummy worms to make the dirt on our cupcakes. Then we added mint leaves and lollipop balloons. Birthday cupcakes still taste good when you’re […]
It was a busy week for Prentiss: losing a tooth, turning five, and a horse show! Here she is suiting up with her father…. All the poise and composure of five years! Everyone was a winner, and Prentiss chose the yellow ribbon. Here she is showing it off.
Truly, the only thing I could wish for on Mother’s Day is exactly what I got- relaxing with my two beautiful children.
Every day I’m at my orchard, I go on this incredible walk. It’s a pretty long trek (about five miles) that goes out through the utterly gorgeous landscape. Off I went on the long country road…. I saw a man teaching a little boy how to fish along a stream- pure country cuteness. The woodland […]
It was Prentiss’ fifth birthday! She walked around, shaking her head, saying, “Can you even believe I’m FIVE?” Now, as you might imagine, I’m not much of a store-bought cake kind of a person. But weeks ago, I was at the store with Prentiss and she saw this princess cake. She had to have it- […]
Prentiss lost her first tooth! It was wiggling for a while, and then, with a little help from her dad, out it came. She has been VERY excited to show off her new gap-toothed grin. After the tooth fairy came, Prentiss told me I could quit my job, because she has a lot more teeth […]
On Monday my assistant Kyle and I visited Prentiss’ class to do a couple craft projects. These kids are some serious students. They wowed us with their skills and creativity when we made popcorn snack bags and May Day hanging ornaments.
We kept ourselves busy all weekend: We made this wooden path to the animal barn…
We just spent the most magnificent weekend at our orchard in the Berkshires. Western Massachusetts is GORGEOUS- actually, right now, when all the fruit trees are blossoming, buds are opening everywhere, and I could hardly drag myself back to the city. The mountains come alive in May. Here’s a weathervane I made a few years […]