J. is leaving today for London and Tokyo. He will go literally “around the world” in the next 6 days.
Miss you already.
xo
Snapshot Sunday ~ Around the World.
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Another chapter closed.
Well, so much for starting the Harry Potter books when Em was 10 or so…and slowly working through them. Like one book per year.
We just finished #4 tonight and the MINUTE Jamie turned the last page there was great discussion about when we could start book #5…and see the fourth movie. (Mama’s rule…have to read the book before you can see the movie.)
Potter mania has overtaken our lil’ girls. Addie, too. Today she didn’t have any homework so she created her own little HP book.
Yeah, I don’t think there will be any holding them off of the last three books….
Crafty Tuesday
I can hardly call this “crafty,” since I borrowed the idea from Eat Drink Chic, I copied her ideas (she gives the signs away as download files – but I needed them to say something different…so yes I did model them on hers right down to the very perfect font!), and Em cut most of my signs out for me. BUT, it is the only even close to crafty thing we have done this week. So here goes.
My bestie in Texas gave me the idea for Back-to-School Sundaes and since we started on a Monday this year…we decided to make a party out of it – and so we had Sundaes Sunday.
Yep. Happy customers.
First Day of School.
We have a 2nd grader and a 4th grader in the hou-ezz.
Great first days all around. Em is ecstatic that her BFF is in her class and she claims that “Mrs. A. is the NICEST teacher ever!” (Yeah, she DOES say that every year about her new teacher, but this year it is FOR SURE!)
She was thrilled with the little curls we were able to coax from the curlers last night. Although it was as straight as could be when I picked her up from school. Ah well…welcome to my world, kiddo.
Addie’s hair, on the other hand?! Wow…we had a little afro-curls going on.
It was like the curls she had in her toddlerhood so many years ago. She was a little frightened by them, I think. “Um, mom? Do you think we can just put it in a bun or ponytail?”
And so we did.
She had a great day, too. Her BFF is in the other class this year, but her other 2 BFFs (remember when you had 20 best, BEST friends?) are in her class so she is happy.
All in all, a success I think. They were both REALLY ready for bed at 8pm tonight and excited for tomorrow. So yeah, I’d call that a success!
School Curls.
Hey Mom! How many nights before the first day of school did I look like this?
I guess it is now paybacks for all the times I made you put my incredibly STRAIGHT hair into curlers overnight…only to wake up to barely a slight wave, the next day.
But she wants curls for school tomorrow, so we hauled out the sponge curlers again tonight.
And Addie, not to be outdone, requested a few curlers in her hair too…
We’ll see what we get tomorrow morning!
Well, now…this is embarrassing.
It has been nearly two weeks since we have checked in here on the ‘ol blog. No excuses, just been busy – and I mean, CRAZY busy. The girls start school tomorrow, as unbelievable as that is, so I guess in all reality…summer is ovah!
So how did we spend the last few weeks of summer? Let’s back up a bit, shall we?
Mama left her little birdies and Daddy for five.whole.days! Me and my best girls headed up to Santa Barbara for a yoga retreat. We stayed at the St. Mary’s retreat house that has been turned into a monastery.
A gorgeous, serene place with an incredible mountain view.
We did yoga inside, outside, on the beach.
An incredible week full of yoga, hikes, meditation, and peace – and we all came home Zen Mamas.
We celebrated an anniversary quick like, and then the Voris family went on a little roadtrip to Monterey. Despite forgetting J’s suitcase we managed to have a wonderful weekend together.
No, we didn’t leave J. behind, he was just taking the photo, so Mommy would show up in a photo or two for a change. See here he is…when we hit the Aquarium.
And Gracie tried her hand at scuba diving. I wasn’t entirely sure she was going to do it. It sounded like a great idea at 10am when she was watching the other group, but as the day wore on she got more and more nervous.
But she didn’t back down.
She got all suited up. They got to wear dry suits – I was so jealous!
She did great. It was funny to watch them because their guide would pull stuff up and talk to them about it, and our sweet little brown-noser would pull her regulator out every time to be the first to answer questions.
Her first words when she came out of the ocean, “It was AHHHHHWWWESOME!” I think she is hooked.
Addie in the meantime made it her mission to hunt down some otters. She claims them “just as cute as kitties!” Thankfully we got to see a lot of them.
One of the nights we went out for seafood and had this lovely view.
And the otters visited us.
It was a perfect little way to say goodbye to summer.
19 years.
Tonight we celebrated 19 years of being married. The girls came with us to celebrate, and J. called it our famiversary. Nineteen years ago was the start of our family…even if we didn’t know at the time that our family would end up looking like this…
I’ve never doubted that marrying you was the best decision I have ever made. Thank you, my love, for nineteen wonderful years and for helping create the most excellent little family.
All my love – all my days.
xo,
c.
Still here…
…kind of. I know I missed Crafty Tuesday today, but I’m heading out of town. By myself! Well…me and 3 of my best girlfriends. We are heading to Santa Barbara for a yoga retreat with our fantastic yoga instructor. I can hardly wait, I’m so excited. I leave tomorrow and won’t be back til Sunday. Wishing you all peace and a wonderful week – we’ll see you all soon!
Snapshot Sunday ~ Ahhh…weekends.
A little late today with our Snapshot. Mostly because we have been trying to soak up our weekend. Is it really already nearly Monday?
Beach Days
Our favorite way to spend a Monday, in our favorite place, with some of our favorite people.
We were coming off of a kind of rough week, so when the beach beckoned, we just had to say yes. And, it was a really nice way to start our week. But, as you can see Em was still not quite 100%. We had tried to trek to Disney on Saturday, but ended up coming home a few hours later, and Em spent the rest of the weekend camped out on the sofa fighting a fever and fatigue. Poor thing.
And then, of course, we had the finger trauma on Addie’s end. Addie’s index finger vs. the car door. Yes, it is indeed broken and in a splint for a few weeks until we can see the pediatric ortho-surgeon to make sure it is healed properly. Thankfully, it is on her left hand, and…although this is horrible to say, thankfully it was Addie who shut the door. I felt horrible enough, I can’t imagine if I had been the one to cause it, too.
Fevers and fingers are not slowing us down over here. Hope your summer is cookin’ too!
