Easter!
Finally.
We had a blast dying eggs, folding chicks and bunnies (shhh, we did those in Feb), and shooting off the rocket Easter morn’.
my family
1st Day of Spring
You all must know by now that I am a slow blogger. Even so I wanted to share a few images from our first day of spring. While picking up I from school, we saw a sign that told about a 1st Day of Spring tradition in Poland. Each year they build a huge doll out of hay and dress her up and toss her into the river on the 1st day of spring. We decided that would be a fun thing to do. Here is our version of this Poland tradition:
This is our doll. Made from the tall grass I cut down while the kids played in the yard. India picked a few strands and a thick piece from one of the fronds. I tied it all together for her. She wanted to dress the doll, but I was unwilling to throw away anything that would not a natural material. I guess we could have dressed her in old leaves… next year.
We drove to one of the kids’ favorite parks. The ‘river’ was pretty stagnant, I bet our doll is still there today, waiting for the rain to wash it away. I guess that’s appropriate since spring always seems to have a slow start.
St. Pat’s
Ok, I’m way behind. Maybe next week I’ll show our Easter eggs.
I think she wore this same shirt last year. I think she’ll probably wear it again next year. We couldn’t find the felt shamrock… we’ll have to make another. It is super cute.
“Our House…
in the middle of our street.”
Ok, I know I promised photographs of our house millions of posts ago. Well, here they are. This is really our furniture rather than in this photo. I didn’t take too many, just of our favorite room and feature of the house. The windows.
Enjoy!
Do you notice on of the photos from our Mexico trip?
Do you like my newspaper fire? It was lit for a couple of minutes only. Now I’ve got to clean it out. Not sure it was worth it.
This is the article I wrote for our neighborhood newsletter. I’m trying to get an interior in every issue… of course, being my idea, ours’ was the first house.
Rolling into the New Year
After 8 days on a cruise I brought home a few Mexican treasures and took some pretty cool photographs. My most memorable keepsake is the extra 6 lbs floating around my abdomen. I think a cruise could be a life changing event… for the worst. Great way to relax, but it seemed there was a meal every 2 hours! Suck it up for another trip to the dining room! Too bad I only made it to the last yoga class… but now, I’ve got yoga on tivo from PBS… they are only 15 minutes long, perfect amount of time for any busy mom.
Here are a few photos from Zihuateanejo… or Zihuat as my sis would say. Zach’s brother and I went on a photo excursion there. The kids were with daddy while Noah and I walked farther into the city where there are fewer gringos.
Zihuateanejo is historically a fishing town. There were so many pelicans I couldn’t believe it. But there weren’t any scavenger birds. No seagulls to eat that bit of muffin Ezra dropped in the sand. Amazing. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a beach without seagulls.
Notice the ship in the background? That’s the one we came in on.
Any and all toy cars, Ezra HAD to jump in. Too bad we didn’t have any pesos at this point. He would have loved this car to move.
I love, love, love this shot. I really want it huge for our wall. Not sure what Zach would think… but I love it!
I love the human element in this one. Another for our walls, I hope.
Aren’t the colors just awesome. Most of the images I took in Mexico had to do with color. So many beautiful colors to see. They were really speaking to me.
Ahhh, Mexico.
We kept seeing this green-blue unfinished metal. Very beautiful.