Our culture makes it increasingly difficult to be present-it's so future go -go -go oriented. Doesn't take much to realize this. Just head to the grocery store. It was the fourth week of September, I had noticed a silly faced pumpkin trick or treat container that I wanted to get for Z. When I got…
Snapshot: January 2019
Looking back on January, it was a month of regrouping from the holidays. Of course Z enjoyed this cold season playing inside with his new toys. In this time, I was beginning to see Z needed more structured creative play options including coloring and sensory bins. Papa made Z a stand for Christmas. Z was…
Favorite Things
As the holiday chaos hits full swing I am receiving almost daily packages of ordered Christmas presents. I'm sure the post person, UPS and FedEx drivers are getting tired of my long driveway, gated yards, and over-protective "guard-dog". Everywhere you go you see advertisements for anything you could possible want for Christmas. No matter how…
Tractor Parade
This past weekend we decided it was time to check out our first local seasonal event: The Christmas Tractor Parade. This parade I have been told is the biggest of the year and at least a thousand people bundled in their warm clothes line up along the parade route. L and I put on our…
Christmas Cookies 2016
Every Christmas I embark on a epic cookie baking session. This year is no exception. Actually, because I am closer to family the cookie tins have increased this year. In spite of working with a new oven and less counter space nothing keeps me from the joy of holiday baking. So what's on the list for…
Lamberton Conservatory
While my parents were here for Christmas we took them on several outings. One, during our day in Rochester was to Highland Park the largest (150 acres) and probably most well known park in Rochester. It holds many city festivals including the annual BBQ (for Festival and Lilac Festival, both of which L and I…
Christmas Review
Christmas week is over and it was full of festive events with my family. On Christmas Eve we prepared holiday dishes. When making our traditional meat pie for Christmas Eve dinner L wanted to cook up 2 pounds of meat but I was concerned it would not fit in our small pie tins, Next thing I know out…
White Chocolate Ginger Snap Cookies
So my second new cookie experiment this year was a white chocolate dipped ginger cookie. I've always wanted to learn how to make ginger snaps. The cookies themselves ended up taking a long time to bake, I'm guessing because of the molasses. White chocolate can be hard to work with it can burn easily or harden quickly.…
Holiday Velvet Cookies
So if you follow my blog at all you know I love to bake and most of all to bake cookies. And Christmas is the perfect time of year to experiment with new recipes. This year I did two new experiments. In the past I have worked with several different cake mixes to make cookies.…
O Christmas Tree
This past weekend I was in-between classes: finished grading finals with one and preparing to grade final projects with another and I needed a break. So we went to get our Christmas tree. Fortunately, where we live there are many farms, including Christmas tree farms so finding a great tree is easy. We drove less than 2 miles up the road…
A.Greene's Adventures 