Every year we plan an extensive gingerbread village built around a theme. After kicking around several suggestions we settled on Quebec, as we know it. Kathryn and Susanna planned and sketched the blueprints and over the next few weeks, a ginger version of La Beauce appeared on our counter. Susanna made the border crossing sign…
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Welcoming the New Year
The first few weeks of January are always a good time to take stock of where we are in life and where we are headed. In our family, we don’t necessarily make long lists of resolutions, but we do make some manageable goals to aim for as we dive into the new year. Carolyn and…
Christmas at Home
December is typically marked by a long list of concerts at varied nursing homes, senior centers and churches. This year we baked a lot more cookies, gave away traditional loaves of pumpkin bread and practiced for our livestream family concert. We also pitched in at our local Wheels for the World warehouse in CT, loading…
Truly Thankful
November blew in on a blast of cold air, giving voters a chilly experience on Election Day and turning campaigning candidates into walking sticks of ice. The first Tuesday in November holds a place of prominence in our home and has for a long time. Every year we work the polls in our town and…
Autumn Tidbits
Welcome autumn! It crept up on us this year. Gold and orange popped out overnight and the first fluttering leaves announced that autumn had indeed arrived. The last couple months were chock full! Campaigning for Jim Townsley, cleaning up after a major tropical storm, a photography field day with James Staddon of Lenspiration, a week…
A Slice of Summer
It’s common to hear folks commiserating about the heat these days, but there is a lot to be said for summer. It means picnics in the backyard or balmy evenings outside, tipping our heads back for a view of the stars. It means family traditions, like an evening out to Hammonassett to watch the sunset….
A Star Spangled Weekend
The Fourth of July saw a lot of patriotic flag waving as we celebrated in traditional Bennett style. Our annual public reading of the Declaration of Independence went on as scheduled after last-minute logistics fell into place. We were so thankful for a light cloud cover and a decent sized crowd that turned out, bringing…
Peek Behind a Photo Shoot
Have you ever thought that your day was clear and pretty much empty, and then something splashes into your peaceful pool and you’re suddenly full to the brim? Our patriotic concert plans were something like that. We had mentally checked it off as a casualty to the creeping effects of the virus when we got…
New Music Video: The Taps
Today, on Memorial Day, we remember all those who gave their lives to serve our country. In musical form, our new music video tells the story of the Taps, which was written during the Civil War as the bugler’s call to close the day. Since then it has become tradition to play Taps as a…
Spring’s Beautiful Gifts
For Susanna’s birthday this year, we did a scavenger hunt. But this was no ordinary scavenger hunt. We paired up in teams of two, and had to go around finding the objects three-legged race style (who comes up with these ideas?!). Just that one feature took a game from a moderate to a challenging skill…