first day of summer

Today is the first day of summer!  To celebrate I took the boys to pick strawberries, which is one of my favorite summer activities.  Tonight we are having our traditional ice cream for dinner to celebrate too!  I would love to hear how you celebrate the longest day of the year.  Please share in the comments.

that's a wrap

One of my friends loves scones.  All summer I had intended to make her some. I knew I was going to see her one afternoon last week so I bought all of the ingredients. Then I ran out of time.  I decided the next best thing would be to make her a basket with all of the ingredients and the recipe and let her make them whenever she wanted.  I measured the dry ingredients and put them in a mason jar.  I even included a stick of butter and tucked in some paper napkins with strawberries on them.  I printed out this recipe and tucked it inside too.  This would also be a lovely hostess gift or a thank you to someone who has been "berry" sweet.