Today is the first pick-up of the 2011 Community CROPS CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and our second year of splitting a Veggie Lovers' box with another family. The family who we're sharing it with this year and ours went to a potluck out at the farm last night and enjoyed food, a farm tour, meeting the chickens, and just generally digging around in the dirt outside, and smelling/seeing the fresh growing goodies we'll get in weeks to come. I've written quite a bit on CSAs and I am one happy person to be picking it up this week! I need a little fresh veggie inspiration in the kitchen! Just one more thing to bring Spring officially to our neck of the woods. Enjoy the pics.
My children have recently become enthralled in the world of board games. I was never a board game player. Sure, I remember long summer hours (days? it seemed like it..) spent around a Monopoly board, but I was never one to suggest to get out the cards, or a game. As my children have grown and they are now able to do activities with me, I started noticing that they really took to puzzles (when done all together) and the one or two board games I happened to have kept in the storage room. They were always asking to play Candy Land and so I figured I should branch off a bit. Over the course of the last year, I have found GREAT games, even ones that I love to play alongside them. The amount of 'teaching' they have gotten through games is jaw-dropping. Counting, team-playing, math related patterning, are just some of the skills I've watched develop. I asked before Christmas on facebook what my friends and their own kids loved and I was thrilled with the response. We have found ov...
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