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Tag Archives: family
Birthday cakes made by Grandma – a Vampire cake and a Lego one – for our twins who turned 5!
This year was a challenging cake year! Noah was very specific – he wanted a vampire cake with teeth and a vampire figure on it – and blood! It had to be chocolate with chocolate frosting. Sigh. Then his twin … Continue reading
Good looking family!
A beautiful picture of our grandkids and their parents! We are all so blessed! The twins wanted suits – the vests, ties – the whole thing! SOOO Cute! But Gabriel is still willing to snuggle…Grandma is in HEAVEN!
Posted in Blog, Family, Raising Children
Tagged family, Grandma, snuggling with grandkids
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Sour Cream Coffee Cake with English Custard – YUM
We love custard – it comes from our South African ( British) heritage I guess. And it is SO easy to make with Bird’s Custard Powder. I paired it with this easy Sour Cream Coffee Cake – which I made … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Little farm products, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged baking, Birds English Custard, cakes, coffee cake, comfort food, cooking, cooking with kids, cream, desserts, family, Grandma, recipes, Recipes to make with kids, sour cream, sour cream coffee cake
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Ever tried baked salami? It is Divine!
Here is a very old ( not healthy but yummy) recipe for baked salami that my friend Ilene gave to me. DELICIOUS!! Baked Salami (Oldie but Goodie) This is an oldie but goodie recipe, and everyone loves it always. Rarely is … Continue reading
Pumpkin – love baking it just the way it is – or pumpkin bread
It is the beginning of the season for pumpkins and for some reason ours are ripe already! So today baked them in the oven and are making pumpkin bread. A great recipe. We do not like allspice ( unless it … Continue reading
Back to our Central Asian Shepherd again – took her in the car – not much room in the back~
Our puppy (now about 110 lbs) is quite a car full. Here she is in the back of my car with our son – not much room for either of them! Of course once we got to the park she … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Dogs, Family
Tagged animals, Central Asian Shepherd, companionship, dogs, family, Keeping healthy, large dogs, love of dogs, man's best friend
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A Central Asian Shepherd Dog – called Ovcharka – huge but so so sweet
According to Wikipedia: This is an ancient breed from the regions of Central Asia. It is not the result of artificial selection: the native breed called alabai historically common among Central Asian peoples. Used by shepherds, as well as to … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Dogs, Family
Tagged animals, Central Asian Shepherd, children, family, farming, grandparents, guard dogs, guarding livestock, Little farm, livestock, Ovcharka, shepherd dogs, sweet dogs
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Celebrations with good friends!
Good friends and a fun weekend! Our dear friend Laura’s daughter Lauren got married to the love of her life this last weekend and four good friends ( along with 360 others!) flew in to be with them! What fun … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Live Events, Prayers and Religion, Raising Children
Tagged Celebrations, family, friendship, hope, love, marriage, women friends
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A great vegetable soup – everything but the kitchen sink!
Before we went out of town this summer, I had a lot of vegetables in the fridge. So I made up this veggie soup – basically threw in everything I had except potatoes – and used vegetable broth with it. … Continue reading
Hanging at the beach – a bit chilly with June Gloom ( Fog in the mornings in LA) but warm later – and Tracy’s Scones!
There is nothing better than hanging out at the beach with the grandkids. Lots of collaboration going on here! Love to see it! Our four grandsons playing so well…. And some yummy stuff – Tracy’s Fabulous Scones – truly amazing … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Raising Children
Tagged beach, collaboration, family, grandkids, Grandma, kids playing together, playing with kids, Raising kids, socialization
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A grandson’s 9th birthday – By request I made two Star Wars Cakes – What a job! But worth it!
I think our nine year old grandson loved his cakes — what do you think? And here is the Darth Vader cake – with the little spears in it! And the Storm Trouper from Star Wars – with Darth Vader … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Little farm products, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged birthday, brothers, cake, family, fun, Grandma, grandparents, grandsons, happiness, parties, togetherness
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Wonderful times with the family
We had a wonderful holiday with our family. Here are some pictures of the children of the family ( grandsons and grandnieces and grand nephews in the USA) without the family in other countries unfortunately. But we sent photos and … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Gluten Free, Little farm products, Raising Children, Recipes to Make with Children, Salad, Vegetables, Vegetarian Mains
Tagged chopped salad, Cucumber, family, family at home, grand nephews, grand nieces, grandchildren, happiness, Israeli salad, Little farm, olive oil, onion, red onion, rice wine vinegar, tomatoes
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Reading with and to children
How I love reading to our grandkids – and they love reading too! Noah needs a ”whole pile of books” before he can go to sleep ( he is four) and Jack ( who is not in the picture below) … Continue reading
Persimmons are so tasty any style! They are weighing down our trees right now – and we love them! And a super family photo
Persimmons are great in fruit salad, eaten on their own, in persimmon pudding or persimmon bread. Here is a great recipe – enjoy Persimmon Pudding Ingredients Ripe persimmons enough to make two cups of pulp 3 cups of milk 1.5 … Continue reading
Home Depot is the place where we should spend our money – and this is why
An amazing video of the founder of Home Depot. I will be spending all of our farm purchase money there from now on. Truly meaningful And who knew?
Posted in Blog, Philanthropy
Tagged community, family, helping others, Home Depot, natural disasters, Philanthropy, Tzedakah
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So wonderful to give back – here is our Larraine Segil Scholars Family Holiday Party – parents, children and siblings of many of our 13 scholars joined us
We are so blessed to have these outstanding young women in our lives – and here they joined together for a holiday party at The Little Farm – it was such fun! Our son James and daughter in law Donne … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Entrepreneurship, Family, Little farm products, Live Events, Philanthropy, Raising Children, Women's Topics
Tagged bouncy, cooking with kids, entertaining, family, Friends, giving back, grandchildren, grandkids, holiday party, Larraine Segil Scholars, Little farm, Mentoring women, paying it forward, Philanthropy, swimming
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I promised the grandkids that I would bake each of them a cake – what fun we had! Paw Patrol, Spiderman, Batman & Ninjas!
The Segil Bakeoff! A sugar high for about 3 days! WHOOPIE! You can see that much of the chocolate frosting missed the cake and went into little mouths. But that is what being at Grandma’s house is all about right?? … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Other wonderful treats, Raising Children, Snacks
Tagged Batman cakes, chocolate frosting, cooking, cooking with kids, cupcakes, family, Funfetti Frosting, grandchildren, Grandma, grandsons, love of family, Paw Patrol Cakes, Spiderman cakes, Thanksgiving, togetherness
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Thanksgiving 2015 at The Little Farm – more pics – my husband loved the food – so did everyone else! My favorite holiday!
Thanksgiving day involved a lot of cooking and tons of food – appreciated by all! Here is my husband – and the quote that our son put to this montage – we laughed a lot! “My father’s three stages of … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Raising Children
Tagged cooking with kids, family, Friends grandkids, giving thanks, Grandma, gratitude, Thanksgiving
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Love the holidays – The So Cal Committee of 200 Scholars at The Little Farm to Celebrate the holidays
Joy is family togetherness. And this holiday season we have much to pray for and much to be thankful for. Living with fear is debilitating – and many around our world are doing that. I feel it when I think … Continue reading
Larraine Segil Scholars and families 2015 holiday party – such fun!
On the weekend before Thanksgiving we also held a holiday party that I created for my personal Larraine Segil Scholars ( LSS GROUP) and their families – at our Little Farm – with a bouncy ( of course, for the … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking with kids, family, Grandma, Holiday parties, Larraine Segil Scholars, mentoring, Philanthropy, promoting women, togetherness
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