Spring is here! A blast of snow in early March reminded us not to bank too heavily on the alluring warm weather we had recently enjoyed. The snow lined every tree branch and drooping bush and out in the backyard the boys built a 13 foot snowman, with the aid of a ladder of course….
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Maple Gingerbread
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…
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…
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…
He is Risen!
In spite of the changes in the past month, our celebration of Christ’s resurrection was one of deep meaning and great joy. The week before Easter, we kept up a steady schedule driving to church almost every day to record a segment for the three special services we posted on our church’s website. In our…
A Week of Saturdays
Like the rest of the world, our plans for the month were turned around by the arrival of the virus on American turf. For our family, it meant no longer bringing music to the local retirement home where we have enjoyed many wonderful friendships through the years. It meant our ramped-up practices taking a nose…
War, Winners and Weeds
August breezed by with hot sticky days, a bit of traveling, fair time in Cheshire and simple pleasures at home. At the start of the month four of us drove out to Cooperstown, NY to see friends in a Civil War Reenactment. We enjoyed the sweet green farmland of New York and the quaint European…
Memorial Day… and more!
We in the Bennett household are full throttle into patriotic season! We’ve done a few concerts, and are preparing for more to come. But besides music, we’ve done a few other things within the past couple weeks… Dad was asked to present a two-hour workshop on the Constitution of the United States. He gave an…
This n’ that
The past few weeks have been full of fun family times, beautiful spring weather, and preparations for upcoming events and concerts. On Susanna’s birthday, her younger siblings took her on a surprise visit to a local park for a brief walk in the woods together. At first, we were “on the fence” about how to…