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LAST CHANCE to SAVE $65 on winter classes!
TODAY is the LAST DAY to SAVE $65 on winter 2014 classes! Call us at 212.792.7590 (Chelsea) or 212.792.7591 (UWS) by 6pm or register online by midnight: http://www.appleseedsplay.com/classes
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great fall recipe to try at home
Try this great recipe at home with the kids!
apple turnovers
ingredients:
- 1 large apple, peeled, cored, and cut into 1/4-inch pieces
- 3 tablespoons apple jelly, heated
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 sheet of phyllo dough
- 2 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- cinnamon sugar to sprinkle on the turnover
direction:
- Put oven rack in lower third of oven and preheat to 400°F.
- Butter a large baking sheet.
- Have your child help stir together the apple, jelly, cornstarch and cinnamon in a bowl.
- Spoon onto phyllo sheet and fold into a triangle. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.
- Bake at 350 until golden brown and crispy.
We want to see your creations - share your child’s dish with us on our Facebook page!
For more yummy recipes like this, check out our COOKing monsters classes.
apple turnovers
ingredients:
- 1 large apple, peeled, cored, and cut into 1/4-inch pieces
- 3 tablespoons apple jelly, heated
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 sheet of phyllo dough
- 2 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- cinnamon sugar to sprinkle on the turnover
direction:
- Put oven rack in lower third of oven and preheat to 400°F.
- Butter a large baking sheet.
- Have your child help stir together the apple, jelly, cornstarch and cinnamon in a bowl.
- Spoon onto phyllo sheet and fold into a triangle. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.
- Bake at 350 until golden brown and crispy.
We want to see your creations - share your child’s dish with us on our Facebook page!
For more yummy recipes like this, check out our COOKing monsters classes.
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A Fight Gone Bad for a very GOOD cause
On October 19, 2013 our Director of Operations, Janelle Rooks, will be participating in a Crossfit competition called Fight Gone Bad. What is Fight Gone Bad?
Three Rounds of:
1 minute – Wallball shot
1 minute – Sumo deadlift high pull
1 minute – box jump
1 minute – push press
1 minute – max calorie row
In this workout you move from each of five stations after a minute with one minute rest between rounds. The clock does not reset or stop between exercises. One point is given for each rep and each calorie rowed. We’re tired just writing about it!
Janelle’s gym, Crossfit South Brooklyn, is using this grueling competition to raise money for the Brooklyn Community Foundation. Every dollar raised goes towards grants to help community programs including but not limited to after-school programs, urban gardens and senior activities center.
To support her efforts we are holding a membership raffle. Tickets cost $5 each and all proceeds benefit fundraising efforts. One winner will be picked at our Chelsea and UWS locations on October 18th. If you would like to contribute you can contact the front desk and buy a raffle ticket or donate to her team at the link below:
http://www.crowdrise.com/tbd2/fundraiser/janellerooks
...3, 2, 1 – GO!
Three Rounds of:
1 minute – Wallball shot
1 minute – Sumo deadlift high pull
1 minute – box jump
1 minute – push press
1 minute – max calorie row
In this workout you move from each of five stations after a minute with one minute rest between rounds. The clock does not reset or stop between exercises. One point is given for each rep and each calorie rowed. We’re tired just writing about it!
Janelle’s gym, Crossfit South Brooklyn, is using this grueling competition to raise money for the Brooklyn Community Foundation. Every dollar raised goes towards grants to help community programs including but not limited to after-school programs, urban gardens and senior activities center.
To support her efforts we are holding a membership raffle. Tickets cost $5 each and all proceeds benefit fundraising efforts. One winner will be picked at our Chelsea and UWS locations on October 18th. If you would like to contribute you can contact the front desk and buy a raffle ticket or donate to her team at the link below:
http://www.crowdrise.com/tbd2/fundraiser/janellerooks
...3, 2, 1 – GO!
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Buying OXO products helps Cookies For Kids' Cancer!
Need some new kitchen gadgets? This fall, look for specially marked OXO products bearing the Cookies for Kids’ Cancer logo. OXO will donate up to $100,000 to support research for new and improved therapies, and the products are awesome.
http://www.oxogoodcookies.com/
http://www.oxogoodcookies.com/
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FLASH SALE on winter classes TODAY ONLY!
Visit us at the front desk or call us at 212.792.7590 (Chelsea) or 212.792.7591 (UWS) until 6p or register online until midnight!
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FLASH SALE TOMORROW ONLY!
TOMORROW ONLY - SALE ON WINTER CLASSES!
$150 OFF apple seedlings (2/3s) registrations!
$100 OFF all other apple seeds classes!
$50 OFF Music Together and Developmental Movement!
Offer expires at midnight tomorrow. Stay tuned first thing tomorrow morning!
$150 OFF apple seedlings (2/3s) registrations!
$100 OFF all other apple seeds classes!
$50 OFF Music Together and Developmental Movement!
Offer expires at midnight tomorrow. Stay tuned first thing tomorrow morning!
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Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Moms in Training
Calling All Moms in the NYC Area!
Join Moms In Training to get in shape with other moms while raising funds for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Moms In Training is a flexible, 8-week workout program specifically for moms, occurring every Saturday morning at 9am in 7 locations throughout NYC:
• Central Park (72nd Street) - Manhattan
• Madison Square Park - Manhattan
• Washington Square Park - Manhattan
• Pier 25 (Tribeca) - Manhattan
• Prospect Park - Brooklyn
• Astoria Park - Queens
• Clove Lake Park – Staten Island
Enjoy additional free educational/fitness classes & social events throughout the season for moms & the entire family. The program culminates with a 5-mile run or walk in Central Park on November 17th or a 15K in the Bronx on November 24th. Moms of all fitness levels can participate!
Program Dates: September 28th - November 24th
Moms In Training Kick Off Events (kids welcome!)
When: Saturday, September 21st from 9 to 10am
Locations: Union Square, Upper East Side, Battery Park, and Park Slope
Enjoy breakfast, learn about the program, receive your Moms In Training shirt when you register, and hear inspiring stories about the impact you will make in the fight against cancer. RSVP to melissa.miller@lls.org for location details.
Learn More and Register Now!
Watch the Moms In Training video to learn why the program has inspired over 200 moms!
Questions? Email melissa.miller@lls.org or call 212.376.4765.
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Facing Fears of the New and Different
This story was first published on August 31, 2013 here. (insert link: http://www.myempathyproject.blogspot.com/2013/08/kids-show-review-justin-time-aka-facing.html)
Janet is our guest blogger from Growing Empathy, where she be talks about her life as a working mom of two and her attempts to make herself a better person. For more info about Janet, check out her awesome blog here!
Janet is our guest blogger from Growing Empathy, where she be talks about her life as a working mom of two and her attempts to make herself a better person. For more info about Janet, check out her awesome blog here!
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September employee of the month...Darius!
Darius, Darius, DARIUS…you know Darius is near when you hear the little ones calling his name! Darius has become a household name among our Upper West Side families and that is why we couldn’t be happier to announce that DARIUS is the September employee of the month! His relationship with families is exactly what we hope for from our staff and we couldn’t ask for more. His kindness, wonderful sense of humor and easy going attitude has made him a favorite among both our families and staff. Not only do we appreciate Darius' attitude, but also his amazing work ethic on the floor, in the classroom and on the playground!
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MOST AWESOME indoor playspace 2013
apple seeds has won Most Awesome Indoor Playspace in the 2013 Red Tricycle Awards for the second year! Thank you to everyone who voted for us!
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Wednesdays with Wendy: Anniversaries
Welcome to this week's Wednesdays with Wendy!
Wednesdays with Wendy: Anniversaires
by Wendy Bradford
The end of summer has brought--along with record humidity and, recently, back-t0-school chaos--nostalgia to our household since my husband and I became a couple. As a writer and as a mother, it is what I do best: return to the places and times my story began, changed, developed, and opened.
The approach of Labor Day marks several anniversaries. At the end of August, on a lake in Upstate New York, ten years ago this summer, my husband proposed we get married. He jumped in the lake to ask, while I sat in shock, in a paddle boat, and worked hard to not drop the ring in the deep water. A couple of weeks ago, on that same date, we visited that lake with our three children. We remembered that bright, easy Sunday when we headed out toward an island in the middle of Lake George, my husband nervous and withdrawn, myself tired, hungover from Italian wine the night before. And what went through both my husband's and my mind as we revisited that moment, our three young children in tow, gazing now at the sunbathers on the shore? "Had we only known then..."
Fourteen years ago, the saturday of Labor Day weekend, my husband and I moved here from Boston. We barely knew each other, had no jobs, no cash, a tiny studio apartment to share, and a wish to build a life in New York City. Until our first child was born, we returned each Labor Day to the same restaurant where we had spent that first night in New York--a Mexican restaurant on the Upper East Side at which we had spent money we didn't have on frozen margaritas, and wondered in silence each with our own fears, excitement, and second thoughts at the foreignness of Third Avenue. We returned each year to that same outdoor table to relive those first scary moments, days, months in New York together. They, mostly, were not happy ones. But time retells our stories; the difficult days seem romantic and simple. It is why we return to the places we no longer belong.
This past weekend, I brought my oldest daughter to the emergency room at Cornell Hospital on Sunday night. She was in great pain, and I worried it was her appendix. Six years ago, almost to the hour, I was in a cab with my husband headed to the same place. I was in labor with her. (I, however, did not vomit in the cab as my poor sick daughter did.) As she and I spent most of the night there, waiting between tests on a gurney in the hallway, I willed myself back to that night--when my husband and I were on the verge of becoming parents. I wished to relive in any way that impossible anticipation (and relaxation of the epidural!). I was more frightened then than I was bringing my child to the emergency room. (The practice of motherhood makes you tougher than you think you can be.) But even in the same building, six years later on a tremendous anniversary, I could not go back any more than I could deny I have a daughter fascinated now with the sonogram showing the inner workings of her stomach.
The thing about memories is that they tease. We remember anniversaries, to a great extent, to relive. But the past is as elusive as dreams. It is impossible to recall all the feelings, thoughts, and joys with accuracy. The good memories are so good that we want to be back in that space and time. They may delight us in the present, or bring a mix sadness and happiness; they bring us back to loved ones that have changed, grown older, or that we have lost. For all our reasons, we celebrate the critical markers of our lives, the years that pass, the constant pursuit of returning for just a moment.
Wednesdays with Wendy: Anniversaires
by Wendy Bradford
The end of summer has brought--along with record humidity and, recently, back-t0-school chaos--nostalgia to our household since my husband and I became a couple. As a writer and as a mother, it is what I do best: return to the places and times my story began, changed, developed, and opened.
The approach of Labor Day marks several anniversaries. At the end of August, on a lake in Upstate New York, ten years ago this summer, my husband proposed we get married. He jumped in the lake to ask, while I sat in shock, in a paddle boat, and worked hard to not drop the ring in the deep water. A couple of weeks ago, on that same date, we visited that lake with our three children. We remembered that bright, easy Sunday when we headed out toward an island in the middle of Lake George, my husband nervous and withdrawn, myself tired, hungover from Italian wine the night before. And what went through both my husband's and my mind as we revisited that moment, our three young children in tow, gazing now at the sunbathers on the shore? "Had we only known then..."
Fourteen years ago, the saturday of Labor Day weekend, my husband and I moved here from Boston. We barely knew each other, had no jobs, no cash, a tiny studio apartment to share, and a wish to build a life in New York City. Until our first child was born, we returned each Labor Day to the same restaurant where we had spent that first night in New York--a Mexican restaurant on the Upper East Side at which we had spent money we didn't have on frozen margaritas, and wondered in silence each with our own fears, excitement, and second thoughts at the foreignness of Third Avenue. We returned each year to that same outdoor table to relive those first scary moments, days, months in New York together. They, mostly, were not happy ones. But time retells our stories; the difficult days seem romantic and simple. It is why we return to the places we no longer belong.
This past weekend, I brought my oldest daughter to the emergency room at Cornell Hospital on Sunday night. She was in great pain, and I worried it was her appendix. Six years ago, almost to the hour, I was in a cab with my husband headed to the same place. I was in labor with her. (I, however, did not vomit in the cab as my poor sick daughter did.) As she and I spent most of the night there, waiting between tests on a gurney in the hallway, I willed myself back to that night--when my husband and I were on the verge of becoming parents. I wished to relive in any way that impossible anticipation (and relaxation of the epidural!). I was more frightened then than I was bringing my child to the emergency room. (The practice of motherhood makes you tougher than you think you can be.) But even in the same building, six years later on a tremendous anniversary, I could not go back any more than I could deny I have a daughter fascinated now with the sonogram showing the inner workings of her stomach.
The thing about memories is that they tease. We remember anniversaries, to a great extent, to relive. But the past is as elusive as dreams. It is impossible to recall all the feelings, thoughts, and joys with accuracy. The good memories are so good that we want to be back in that space and time. They may delight us in the present, or bring a mix sadness and happiness; they bring us back to loved ones that have changed, grown older, or that we have lost. For all our reasons, we celebrate the critical markers of our lives, the years that pass, the constant pursuit of returning for just a moment.
