http://www.flotation9.net/sweetfineday Food and design blog based in Brooklyn about family life in and out of the kitchen. Photographs, recipes and musings on sweets, craft, food and design. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:11:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sure, we all know she's cute, but Claudine is now well into her 2s and with that comes the inevitable shift from sweet, quiet baby, to typical toddler antics, some of which have been hard to adjust to. For the past month, there have been lots of screaming, wrestling into ... http://www.flotation9.net/sweetfineday/2009/07/03/hard-times/ Picked up some fresh cherries at the little farmers market across the street from our place. I'm glad that Claudine likes them, but I'm not particularly fond of how she eats them - taking small bites on one side till she gets to the pit, then abandoning them as she ... http://www.flotation9.net/sweetfineday/2009/07/01/first-cherries-blog-thoughts/ Page 139 in this issue of Martha Stewart Weddings (sorry for the rather crappy photo which makes the hearts look totally weird - it's dark outside and raining again. Gee, imagine that). http://www.flotation9.net/sweetfineday/2009/06/30/martha-marshmallows-and-already-a-whole-lot-of-emails/ We're at my mom's house the last 2 days which means we get to eat comfort food like vegetables grown from my dad's garden including spicy pork and rice wrapped in perilla leaves. It also means we get to eat things like frozen red bean pops, a favorite of ours ... http://www.flotation9.net/sweetfineday/2009/06/30/stuff-found-at-my-parents-house/ Perfect weekend weather. It only rained once (briefly), but it was a sun shower and it made a rainbow. A fun and relaxing birthday party in the park. The kids made and painted their own wheelbarrows. Brilliant idea. http://www.flotation9.net/sweetfineday/2009/06/28/the-weekend-2/ This was the sky around 8:45pm tonight (yeah, I do live across the street from Staples, which has proved useful to say the least). The strangest, brightest sky I've seen over NYC in a long time. It started off this eerie golden color, then shifted to orange, then pink and ... http://www.flotation9.net/sweetfineday/2009/06/27/strange-days/ It's true that most days we get junk and bills in the mail, but in the few day before our trip, we received a bounty of happy packages. My friend Tami, designer/owner at Ismodern, was generous as usual with her package of samples for the girls, including the elephant print ... http://www.flotation9.net/sweetfineday/2009/06/25/happy-packages-in-the-mail/ Short trip, and we are back in the city already. Although it is good to be back home, this evening is a huge contrast to our quiet nights upstate, where there was nothing but silence and pitch black darkness as we went to sleep. As soon as we stepped into ... http://www.flotation9.net/sweetfineday/2009/06/25/day-4-goodbye/