Not long after, we piled in the car with packed lunches and headed for the hills. We found a walking track, noted the cool and the damp and the
exquisite
detail.
After a while, the voices calmed and those three kids fell back into themselves:
Dreamers...
Adventurers...
Inventors...
Bite-Off-More-Than-You-Can-Chew-ers...
The vague plan was to hang out in the hills for the day – at least ’til the Mr stumbled across a chestnut tree.
The day became foraging for chestnuts,
hoping like heck a spiked meteorite wouldn’t plummet to earth, via a human head.
We rushed home – quicksticks! – for fire-building, roasting and toasting. Spent the afternoon and early evening in the backyard, by the fire, babysitting those chestnuts,
drinking tea, listening to just one more Harry Potter chapter, waiting for spur-of-the-moment, Pineapple Upside-Down Cakes to emerge from the oven. More chocolate was consumed. More Mama eyes were averted.
The Chief Chestnut Roaster (aka Mr Myrtleandeunice) noted the knit-knit-(not-stopping)-knitting of the Rubble jumper,
and suggested rustic hunks of Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, a perfectly viable dinner. He reckoned that was the kind of wisdom he’d be happy to be quoted on.
A Sunday packed to the brim and overflowing and runneth over-ing with GOOD.
Monday night dinner: virtuous, brownest rice; holier-than-thou broccolini. Tonight: less smug, (buttery) brussel sprouts and chestnuts.
Just all ’round YUM.
36 comments:
You guys really know how to celebrate! Happy Easter!
What a gorgeous day full of serendipity.
Que delícia, eu também catava estas castanhas quando era criança.
Beijo.
Loving your photography Tania! And had to laugh at the holier than thou brown rice and broccolini!!
It sounds like such a wonderful day!!
Sounds like perfectly reasonable advice for a special day. I am still eye-averting for the time being, until I manage to find all the hidden candies and confiscate to the reward box. We are sugar crashing around the clock over here.
we are now on day 2 of arguing over the chocolate stash. I may throw it all out ( or eat it all myself alone under the doona cover) Lovely photos Tania.
Now that sounds like my kind of day :)
That 'chew of more than you can chew' photo...priceless!
x
Absolutely beautiful - as always with the Myrtle & Eunice gang. Chestnuts - what a find!! Chocolate for breakfast is always acceptable on Easter Sunday.... that's what I tell myself and my children anyway....
ok, now i want a pineapple upside down cake. oh and maybe some knitting... x
The tradition in our house is jello eggs and jello jelly beans until you feel sick. Mama and Dada get to have jello bean shooters all day too. Neighbors raised their eyebrows at us when they discovered why we kept calling the green jello beans "for grown-ups".
Then they finished off the rest of them for us.
Sounds like you had a lovely day. I especially love the roasting chestnuts and chapters of Harry Potter. So cozy!
Oh how fantastic! Seems brilliant weekends were on the wind. Very good indeed. (As I type, quinoa and kale are on the bubble)
Sounds like a perfectly wonderful way to spend any day. Chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner happened here on Easter Sunday. I just kept saying don't make yourself sick
What a perfect day! Love the pics (as always that little one of yours is a treasure!) Sound advice from the Mr too I think. Happy holidays guys :) Kx
Sounds like a perfect Easter to me!
(thanks for the pattern link too!)
Wow, what a beautiful, senses-full-to-overflowing Easter that looks like :)
oh, what a magic day! it reminds me of the time we had left over chocolate pudding for breakfast as kids (dad was in charge, and being uncharacteristically lenient)x
That Mr, he knows a thing or two.
Sounds like the most perfect way to spend Easter xo
Roasted chestnuts - yum! Reminds me of buying them in little bags in Europe. When we got back to Aus we found some & excitedly put them into Te oven to roast and Boom! They exploded. We learnt our lesson. And I too did a lot of gaze averting on Sunday ;-)
Better watch out - I might just be putting myself up for adoptiion by your family...
What a brilliant photo of your tree-climber! I'm still cackling to myself!!
I love your family.
I wouldn't fit in at all, but I love your family!
Very Carpe Diem at your house! I did allow quite a lot of chocolate munching but every so often I'd be revolted and declared a chocolate ban until after the next meal. My kids received an obscene amount though! Whereas I received almost none *grumble*
Oh I wish my family would be satisfied with dinners like that...
Ummm roasted chestnuts... so all those chestnuts in my mums garden are going to waste! Better skip over tomorrow and roast some in our outside fire.
Sounds perfect to me .... all food groups covered , fresh air and exercise , culture and cake .
I like the way your Myrtle and Eunices roll.
oh my! so amazing photos and adventures:) the chestnuts look soo yummy
I'm still tr-la-la-ing..they will have had enough sooner or later..surely!?? What a day you guys had, looks beautiful..x
I'm still tr-la-la-ing..they will have had enough sooner or later..surely!?? What a day you guys had, looks beautiful..x
Chocolate + Pineapple Upsidedown Cake + Brown Rice + Broccolini = Good, Well Balanced Diet!!!!!
Super cute take on 'chestnuts roasting on an open fire' only that is Christmas. Isn't it the BEST smell, takes me back to London streets at Christmas in the snow, ahhhh. Love Posie
Sounds (and looks - fab pics) like you had a great Easter. Thanks for sharing.
Jumbleberries xx
What a fabulous adventure! I too averted my eyes and ears (under the doona to be exact), to the chocolate breakfast but figured that since we'd only just finished last year's easter haul a month ago my strategy this year might be to just get it all consumed within one day and deal with the consequences. Yeah. I think I need to come up with a strategy somewhere between those two for next year.
Always so lovely and inspiring to come a visiting at your space xx
gorgeous : )
Yum! Even the broccolini... Ax
pineapple and chestnuts are highly nutritious. They probably more than balanced out the chocolate! These things are all a matter of perspective...
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