365 project: more birthday earrings!

These awesomely cool earrings were designed by Chloe and put together by Sherry. I absolutely love them (the earrings and the girls)!

365 project: writing in shaving cream

Part of Kman's homewaork assignment was to write his spelling words in shaving cream. He liked it and I thought it looked cool.

365 project: spilled crayons

365 project: Forsythia branches

365 project: fabulous new earrings from Lydia

On Sunday I got a surprise early birthday present from Sherry's friend Lydia who I have met exactly once. She MADE me a beautiful pair of earrings like the ones I fell in love with and pointed out to her at a nearby shop. How nice is that? I cannot get enough of these babies and have worn them everyday since I got them! Thank you so much, Lydia!

365 project: Ruby hugging a statue

I forgot to take a picture on this day, so I decided to post this one since it is funnycute and because Ruby wasn't in the other picture from our nice park outing on Thursday.

365 project: view from mom's back deck

365 project: beautiful day at the park

Here are Sherry and Chloe under a lovely blooming tree.

365 project: daffodils in the dining room

365 project: cooler swimming

The craziest of all the nuts trying to swim in a cooler containing very cold water.

365 project: bug magnet

365 project: cloud reflection in windows

365 project: Fel's chocolate bar

365 project: the usual

When I was little my nana always made me a special meal of things I liked: plain yogurt with wheat germ, rye toast, apples and peanut butter. I loved it so much that she made it for me all the time and that's how it started to be called "the usual".

365 project: blackout photo

We had a city-wide blackout and this picture was taken during it.

365 project: pretty dishes from mom

365 project: drawing with Fel

365 project: red zinger tea and steam

365 project: zooming home

365 project: kid art

365 project: beads in plastic bag

365 project: life is good

this is the tag from RB's birthday present.

365 project: crystals on the brain

365 project: upclose cute-ocity

This picture was taken at the park when we were shooting off Keeler's new rockets. He was sitting on my lap and I love the teeny bit of sunlight, wrinkles and freckles on his nose.

365 project: stink-eye

Here you see Krip giving me the extreme stink-eye just because my intuition was on the fritz.

365 project: Eliott's post-bath wrinkly raisin fingers.

365 project: pulled over

Keeler decided to dress up like a police officer today and thought the reason we got pulled over was so that the State trooper could compliment him. That was, unfortunately, not the reason.

365 project: something springy

365 project: moon shoes removal

This is The Big Easy taking off moon shoes at our friends' house. This was a part of a video I took. I was fooling around with it and learned that you can snapshot parts of the video. I like learning new things through this here 365 project.

365 project: my life is full of gorgeousness

I love love love this boy, too!

365 project: eerie sepia-ness

This is a picture of a picture of RB and me playing at Veteran's park years ago. The original was taken by the lovely Krip. In this one, you can see the eerie reflection of my humongous head as if I am spying on this young couple from the past.

365 project: lamp reflected in breakfast cereal milk

365 project: hat sideways

I love love love this boy!

365 project: crystals and a seashell in a box

365 project: dining room lamp

365 project: celery and shallots

365 project: some pencils

365 project: tough guy, chocolate mouth

Here is Eliott, now 4 and a half, with several new tattoos, looking fierce and menacing.

365 project: front door and wreath

365 project: my main squeeze

Words fail me.

365 project: Keeler's love note

When I got up today, Keeler had written this message for me on the wall.

365 project: Lucky Charms, best cereal in the Universe

It's what the cool kids eat...when they aren't naked lounging or group bathing.

365 project: wintry mix

The picture situation today was mixy and aggravating. I spent over an hour trying to get this one photo and it never worked out. I decided to go with this one because there is a lot happening in it and today was a day that had the feeling of a lot happening in it. Plus, it has our new friends, Laura and Evan in the background which is cool.

365 project: Keeler's Rild

Keeler built this LEGO structure and this photo, with the neat shadow window, felt like a glimpse into his incredible mind.

365 project: brotherly love

Today's photo decision was the hardest so far. I took a bunch of pictures of the kids after school and a lot of them were cool. I picked this one, finally, because I liked the shadows on their faces and also because I think this shows their personalities the best and that, deep down, they really love each udder.

project 365: breakfast, plate and fork

Today is a glorious day and I am in love with my life. I am having a great time with this photo project and everything looks beautiful and feels beautiful. Also, the sweetest thing happened: Eliott took over folding the laundry and said, "all for you, Mom." He is an angel from Heaven above and/or the red-headed, blue-eyed Barbarian Bodhidharma.

365 project: ooo, baby, it's a big ol' swirly world

This is a photo of the refrigerator magnet that I made to look like a swirly blue and green world. I really like it.

365 project: lilac bush at night

I am copycatting Krip and Marth and taking a picture a day for the next year. Here is my inaugural photo which is a picture of a branch of the lilac bush in our yard, just starting to get some buds on it, in the middle of the night. This blog is about to get more posting action than it will know what to do with.

These are a few of my favorite things

This blog needs some tender love and affection in the form of a favorite things list:

1. white broccoli pizza and orange soda

2. the sentence Keeler made up for his spelling test, "I like the way I live."

3. inter library loans

4. feeling snoozy and snuggly on cloudy days

5. blooming tea

6. the kids' stinky and heavenly breath when they first wake up

7. having the greatest friend in the world and a million trillion jokes between us

8. working on the crossword puzzle with Ken and insulting each other the whole time

9. reading books out loud with RB

10. footage of Vince Papale leaping around in the end zone, on cloud nine. and "who's nuts" shirts

11. a Deaf contestant on the Amazing Race

12. banana walnut chocolate chip muffins

13. Keeler saying "chhhhh...chhhh....we're breaking up" while talking to Marth on the cell phone.

14. Eliott's serious face when he is trying to explain something

15. Eliott's tough and menacing face when we line up to play football

16. Gordon Wiebe's artwork

17. zen koans and great books about them

18. The Band's song "The Weight"

19. snowflakes that magically look like paper snowflakes

20. becoming friends with a really neat lady in town

25 things about yours truly

It took me such a long time to finally make this list and now I want the world to know: 1. I adore my library system. 2. I quit my first job by way of a harmonica solo. 3. 99% of my spoken sentences come out like gobble-dee-gook. 4. I call Keeler and Eliott “creepy kids” to their faces pretty much every day. 5. Mr. Rogers is my #1 role model. I absolutely love him and cannot watch his show without crying. Also, we have the same favorite number: 143. 6. I have been a vegetarian since birth. 7. Before I became a crazy Eagles fan and discovered Postsecret and This American Life, Sundays used to fill me with dread. 8. I have social anxiety, but I am really fascinated by people anyway. 9. In my early twenties, I lived at an ashram in Upstate New York for a month. 10. I believe in the goodness of mankind. A fortune cookie told me so. 11. I really enjoy my own company. 12. After college, I travelled the country for three glorious months with my very best friend in the whole world. It was dreamy. 13. If I had a lot more money, patience and confidence, I would unschool the boys. 14. I am fluent-ish in American Sign Language. 15. I have been keeping a journal of words and/or drawings since I was in middle school. 16. I am a descendant of Spanish royalty. 17. I often find it difficult to make decisions or progress in any direction because most of the time I feel like my brain belongs to two people with totally opposite opinions about everything. 18. I once stood up a date by hiding between my bed and the wall while he knocked and knocked and finally went away. 19. If I didn’t have kids, I would most likely become a Buddhist nun. 20. I am a totally disorganized mess and I feel pretty bad about it. 21. If I could re-do Keeler’s first 3 years, I would. Everything I thought I was doing right, I have since decided was screwed. 22. RB and I separated briefly and got back together in part because of a receipt he saw in his wastepaper basket at work that said, “R.B. LOVE BUGS”. 23. I feel like if I could just figure out the meaning of life I could finally relax. 24. I have a weird obsession with the buzzards in my town. They seem to follow me around, so I guess they like me, too. Or maybe they are just waiting for me to die so they can eat me. 25. I wish I were braver about making friends.