Eat. Drink. Live.
Greg took this photo of Sam in her stroller with Instagram. Wow, what a great one!
OK so maybe the plane ride out wasn’t the best. Not the worst, but not the best. The plane ride home? The best. Piece of cake. Look at how happy!
The talented photographer Mark took these portraits of Samantha before church on Easter Sunday. I’d say Mark has a second career in front of him should he ever decide to give up IT.
Annie put together a nice feast for Easter on Saturday night, and invited some of the friends and family over who hadn’t yet met Samantha. Can you say ham and hot dish? Oh yeah!
For lunch on Saturday, we went to what appears to be a really rockin’ bar. At least at night, I bet. During the day, it was laid back enough for us to take a big table by the back and […]
Mark took these terrific photos of Sam with me, Doris and Greg. And I threw a few in there of Doris helping put Sam to bed on Friday evening. Really beautiful photos. Thanks Mark. And a little video, too:
After our walk through Sibley Park, we stopped for a beer at Pub 500, which SCF fans may remember from such posts as “Historic Mankato Pub Crawl: Pub 500.” We had some craft beer and a helping of very delicious […]
Two little videos, wherein Doris tries to read “Make Way for Ducklings” but Sam is a big squirmer:
A nice little walk in the park before supper. Goats, llamas, koi. What else could you need, really? The park, named after Minnesota’s first Governor, Henry Hastings Sibley, is a quite nice one, really. There’s a playground and a paved […]
Wow. If we had a co-op like this in Nyack, I’d be in heaven. (Hmmm. Business idea?) It is definitely taking its cue from Whole Foods, in that it’s one of those mainly organic stores that have taken the “health […]
Surprise, surprise: there’s good Vietnamese food in Mankato, Minnesota! Our pho at Pho Saigon was really very good! And it’s a great place to take a big group for a family dinner, too.
Sam took her first plane ride out to Minnesota to visit Gramma Weber. It was a joyous occasion indeed.
I can’t believe it’s been five years since little Hughie, our godson, was born. Five years ago, he was a little bundle in my arms. Today, he’s blowing candles out on a Star Wars cake.
A little morning time with Samantha, while she takes time to peruse that great novel ” The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” Yes, and she almost rolled over. (She did roll over on St. Patrick’s Day, from tummy to back. But we […]
We like to grow things locally around here. And Sam, being locally grown herself, is mighty proud to say it. A very generous gift from Irene from the gift shop at Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture. Thanks!
On our first real day of springtime weather, Sam put on her best pink dress and went out and about Nyack with Greg. In preparation for book club that evening, he read The Little Prince to her, and she seemed […]
A bowl of homemade chicken soup and a sleeping baby, or, as Greg headlined it: “Soup Angel.” Yes, it’s another quiet weekend night here at the farm. And before supper, during playtime, Sam’s latest trick — grabbing stuff and putting […]
My first haircut in more than a year. Just for posterity:
This Johnny Jump Up thing hangs from the door archway and support her. She seems to like to pretend to stand up. Well, wouldn’t you?
The last weekend of February was a pretty quiet one around SCF. I was working on some freelance, so Mom and Leigh watched Srimp. Then they brought her back to the Farm — along with a lovely dinner of Avril […]
On Valentine’s morning, a few words from Sam:
Damn she’s cute.
I wouldn’t call it talking, no. But a bunch of fun sounds. She’s a real chatterbox!
On my last day of maternity leave, we went back to the city for a little walk along the High Line and a then had a supper of soup and oysters and the Standard. Here’s Srimp enjoying her milk along […]
Srimp took me completely off guard by pulling herself up to seated all by herself. I’m not saying she can stay that way without the help of a couch pillow of the guidance of a mom, but, she’s definitely on […]
Yes, she started laughing! Not a belly laugh — I can’t wait for that! — but a nice cute little giggle. She’s also been playing with her hands, and putting them in her mouth a lot. Other accomplishments so far: […]
Sam and I will be spending lots of time together over the weekends from now on. Greg got a great new job copy editing at The Daily, and his hours are Saturday and Sunday nights. It’s so terrific for Srimp. […]
While I’m off work, I’ve been attending a Wednesday morning Mom group that focuses on breastfeeding. (See, this is a food blog, after all, right?) Breastfeeding Arts, a group run by my lactation consultant (and now friend), the incomparable Deirdre, […]
Maybe it was the rice and beans from Maura’s the night before, but I had a hankering for Harry’s. And the weather was so gorgeous that we decided to make an afternoon of it. We walked down the long way, […]
We’d heard the chicken pot pie from The Market in Palisades was killer. The guy behind the counter told Greg people get pissed if they come and he’s run out. So while we were at The Filling Station for burgers, […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
