a week with norete

She hasn’t even been here a week and look at all she has done. The woman is a force of nature.

She has cooked,

and baked,

(she even arrived with a box of freshly picked  B.C cherries from their tree)

she has sewn matching princess dresses (with some help),

purchased a new addtion to our family (Bello, the fish),

and she’s [...]

papa’s pasta

I blew my budget at the Farmer’s market this week buying chanterelle mushrooms. Whenever I see chanterelles I think of my sister-in-law’s father. Every summer he would go into the woods to his top secret location (man, I wish I had found out where) to pick chantrelles to sell to restuarants.
Papa, as we called him, made [...]

enjoying…

Having 3 generations together,
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a trip to one of my favourite places on the island for an afternoon tea.. just me and my mom,

barns right on main street,

strawberry tarts,

moments like these.

pad thai and lobster anyone?

I was asked a few weeks ago to contribute some inspirational table setting pictures to the Cafe Mom site. This one was taken the day before the deadline with a babe in my arms and much surrounding craziness.  I need to get back to photographing meals, I love these photos.

sunbeams and haircuts

Sosi is very attached to her  hair, it is long and on most days very tangled. I love it long, but hate the daily battles for combing, hair clips and washing. I’ve been trying to gently persuade her to get a little trim for ages, with no luck.
Then I had a lightbulb go off, why [...]