Kids Love Green Smoothies!

By 路 4 Comments
green dinosaur smoothie - blossomsandposies.com

聽 Green Dinosaur Smoothie   We love green smoothies. Yes, they look like green slime. But isn’t that part of the kid appeal? 馃檪 For some. But at our house? At first I had to do some stealth green smoothie-ing. I concealed the green-ness of the smoothies in opaque cups with lids. Sneaky mama! After the children consumed the smoothies and ooh-ed and ahh-ed about how delicious they were, I had them look inside. Teehee! This was enough to convince the older two, but at the time our youngest was a toddler, so I had to come up with an […] Read more 禄

100% Whole Wheat Pancakes

By 路 Leave a Comment
whole wheat pancakes - BlossomsAndPosies.com

聽 MRS. BROWN: Whole wheat pancakes sound like such a good idea, don’t they? But how many times have you eaten a whole wheat pancake that felt like a brick in your stomach? Or like a dog’s rubber chew toy in your mouth? Eww! This recipe makes tender, delicious whole wheat pancakes every time. Just make sure you don’t over stir in step 3 and you’ll be crowned Pancake Princess after just one breakfast! ABBIE: I sort of messed these up when I first made them. They were way too thick. I’m pretty sure that I packed the flour into […] Read more 禄

An Adventure in Hawaii

By 路 8 Comments
A Hawaiian welcome - BlossomsAndPosies.com

A word or two from Mrs. Brown…聽 It has been non-stop fun for the Browns since early April! First we had a series of wonderful visits from family, then Abbie performed in the world premier of a musical, and then we hopped on a plane to Hawaii! We had all sorts of grand plans for posting from Hawaii… Abbie learned how to make a lei, and we even hunted down lei needles (ever heard of those?) Alas, a lack of flowers (the trees were all picked clean for Lei Day!) followed by a computer disaster, changed those plans. We are […] Read more 禄

An Adventure with Cousins

By 路 5 Comments

I am a very lucky girl. How many people have cousins that come for week long visits? Not many. But I do! Granted, they live in Massachusetts, and this is the first time they ever visited us, but still, it was a wonderful experience. Unfortunately, we could not find any time while they were with us to write a post for this blog, so I apologize for our absence. Nonetheless, we thought it would be fun to tell you a little about some of the things we did with them. Our cousins liked the farm. Though it was a little […] Read more 禄

The Mini Pizza Battle – comparing three crusts

By 路 3 Comments

We love pizza at our house. We sometimes make it from scratch, sometimes frozen (since we live too far out for pizza delivery), and sometimes we make miniature individual pizzas. We especially like minis for lunch. We have used many different bases for our mini pizzas, and thought it would be fun to taste test some of them next to each other. We didn’t expect a landslide victory but the verdict was unanimous! Read on… The Competitors We pitted three bread products against each other, fresh tortillas, pita bread and English muffins. The Process To keep it simple we just […] Read more 禄

Make Your Own Envelopes {free template}

By 路 3 Comments
Make Your Own Envelopes {with template} via BlossomsAndPosies.com

I love writing letters to my friends, so I enjoy using this as a way to make cards a little more special. We printed these templates out on differently colored pieces of paper, so that we could show you purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and white envelopes. The template fits correctly on an 8 1/2 – 11″ piece of paper (average printer paper).聽聽 — Abbie How to Make Your Own Envelopes 1. Print out our envelope template, and cut out around the black lines. 2. Fold the two flat edged sides in. 3. Fold the two pointed edged sides in. […] Read more 禄