Friends Home in Kennett

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This week’s photo album includes a 🍉 Watermelon Social where residents were able to create their own masterpiece with fresh ingredients like kiwi, coconut and berries. Yum!
Also, a Traveling Lemonade Stand hosted by Brandywine Concierge 🍋 and, a “Sunsational Soire” with Jessica Carrol on guitar!

WHAT A DAY! Even with power outages, road blocks and pouring rain we continued on to Shady Maple Smorgasbord!
A huge THANK YOU to our driver, Brian for getting us to the restaurant, and returning us safely 🚌

Chocolate sommelier Estelle Tracy's lecture on the History of Chocolate was captivating! We learned about the Cacao bean (a fruit), where it grows, its health benefits, and more, making us appreciate chocolate even more!

It’s the happy little things at The Friends Home

Supper on the Porch: Celebrating Life's Simple Pleasures at Friends Home

Saturday Veggie Vibes🥒🫑🍅

Don’t mind us, we’re taking the sea-nic route! 🛳️⚓️🏝️
Community Life Associate, Jessica took Linden Hall residents on a Cruise to a tropical island! The day included boarding passes, travelogue and quizzo, yacht rock tunes on the piano, fitness fiesta class, and a tropical sunrise mocktail with the Captain!

PAWS for People volunteers Laurel and her dog Cara visiting the Friends Home. How fortunate are we to have such a great community that takes time to visit our home

We were able to munch on the homemade pickles that we made the other day and they were SUPER! Can you tell if they were sweet or sour by looking at our facial expressions?😳😀

Beach days at the Friends Home. We know how to have fun !

Consider all the stimulating elements associated with cooking. (Smell, Sight, Taste)This morning we are making Homemade Refrigerator Pickles. 🥒 Day #1 Slicing cucumbers, adding coriander seeds, mustard seeds, garlic, dill and our brine( also, sampling the cukes)
Day #2, wait and see! We’ll post pics of our pickles!

Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸

Happy Tuesday from Sunny Friends Home in Kennett Square

Meet resident Karen from Wisconsin who lives at Friends Home. Karen went to Marquette University and was a medical tech and raised a son and daughter in Wisconsin. Karen was a champion diver earlier in her life. Karen loves the meals at Friends Home and has made alot of nice friends. Including me!

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Cheers to the weekend! Mocktails & Music on the Porch! 🎶🍹

A full house for our Performing Arts this past week. Chrissy Strong and friends performed some beautiful piano ballads for us. Chrissy is an emerging singer/ songwriter. Thank you for sharing your talent with Friends Home🎼

The Montessori approach at Linden Hall enables residents to live life to the fullest. Today, they made a delicious strawberry yogurt parfait.

Resident Joan with her great great grand nephew♥️

Our resident, Marie –

She loves dogs (especially, Murphy) and apparently, loves Murphy’s human! Murphy brings so much joy to our residents on his visits.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
Residents were treated to a fun afternoon filled with food and bingo! We enjoyed a delicious meal of BBQ Chicken or Ribs along with southern style green beans, macaroni and cheese, corn casserole and banana pudding for dessert! Thank you to our Dining Services team for the homemade food and the Community Life team for leading Bingo!

The theme at Friends Home is always fun with friends and lots of activities. Here we are playing Canasta a card game. Minds are sharp and having tons of fun!!

Enjoying the lazy days of summer at Friends Home

This weekend we were excited to host Center Stage Opera performing Hansel & Gretal. You know… Two siblings get lost in the woods and stumble upon a candy house! Our very own Friends Home Music associate, Brenten, played several parts in the performance!

Check out our Father’s Day album! We enjoyed Root Beer Floats and lots of games! Our celebration featured a delicious meal prepared by Chef Julian, including Grilled Sirloin Steak with red wine reduction sauce, smashed red potatoes, and garlic broccolini. Seared Salmon with jicama slaw, quinoa, and sautéed green beans. We ended the night with Sponge Cake Crème Anglaise and basil berry compote for dessert!

Today we celebrate our Friends Home Dads who have been a constant source of love, support, and guidance. Happy Father's Day to our heroes!

Here are some snapshots of several of our Friends Home Father’s! If you have a picture of a FH dad that you want to share, please send to [email protected]

Embrace the adventure at Friends Home! Our action-packed schedule includes flower arranging, crafting, fishing, and a nature walk at the park, followed by a mouth-watering shrimp boil and an awe-inspiring trip to Longwood Gardens.

At Friends Home, we like to experiment with new ideas. The Blue Chakra Meditation and Movement is linked to communication and creative expression. Thank you Michael and Jessica for leading this session.

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Friends Home In Kennett