Thursday, January 19, 2012

Serendipitous Candy Cane ice-cream & other delights


We accidentally created a new family tradition this year.

I had this day-dream of a ribbon stretched across the entrance way with big candy canes hanging from it. For all of the children, cousins included, to drool over in the week up to Christmas. So I hung it and it looked divine. But... in my enthusiasm I didn't secure the ribbon well enough for it to take the weight of the canes and with one all mighty *crash* we had ourselves a huge collection of shattered Candy Canes. Boo!

Enter the serendipity.

Why not create a smush-in?!

1. Put worse-for-wear Candy Canes in a ziplock & smash them up even more with a rolling pin. Keep some chunky bits for good measure.
2. Mix into a bowl of good quality vanilla ice-cream.
3. Serve on Christmas Day. Yum!

We also mixed some of the ice-cream with milk and created Zoku ice-blocks after Christmas. We love our Zoku maker here btw. It's brilliant.

So that's ice-cream. And serendipity. And now, here's a few links I wanted to share from the past few weeks. Enjoy! x

Reading:

+ The subtle shades of everyday creative learning
+ A list of things to learn
+ Why Narration?
+ The Virtues Of Kindness
+ Outside the box
+ Studying the world through creative play
+ To be more Joyful...

Inspired:

+ Beauty that moves
+ FIMBY

Resources:




The Treehouse






























Hello And HAPPY NEW YEAR! Welcome to Adventures Of a Rainbow Mama 2012.

Well our exciting news is that we're almost "officially" home-schoolers here at Rainbow HQ. We have an assessor from the Board of Studies coming to confirm our registration next Monday. Not that we haven't been doing this is various forms for the past 8 years! But this is certainly a landmark for us.

I plan on blogging a lot more regularly this year. What about you? I've been busy with my head buried in a lot of cool books & blogs; getting very inspired.

I also have bunches of photos I want to go through & post. A lot of cool activities that we did last year never got shared. So we'll do that too.

But first here are few stolen moments from last Sunday.
Treehouse building.
3 generations.
In the rain.
Very sweet.
Hopefully it might be finished this weekend... :)

x




Saturday, December 17, 2011

These sweet days...

are for surprises.

being with the people (and dogs ;) you love.

spoiling good friends.

small delights.

making memories.

reflection.

afternoon naps.

starting new adventures.

& building lots of cubby-houses!

What are your favourites moments of december thus far...? x



Friday, December 2, 2011

Friendship


Feeling grateful for the sweet friends in our lives.
I love watching our children grow up together... it's so beautiful.

Little Advent Surprises






Thursday, November 10, 2011

Some of what I'm reading & watching on-line this week

Reading:

"Why I Don't Worry About My Kids' Screen Time". Part 1 and Part 2.

The Parent's Project Journal

Cookie Baking Party (I know you wanna have one ;)

This broke my heart. Every single parent in the world should read it... There are no words.

The Classical Education. 

Counting Coconuts' New Routine. Love seeing how other people get organised!



Watching:

Blue Jay / 12 Year old Music Prodigy

The Elements of Art (for kids)

Wet-on-Wet Watercolour Painting


Image credit: A friend posted this great pic on FB. Wish I knew who to credit it to. Sharing the love. 

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