Summer Date

A summer afternoon with E. Just the two of us. What makes for a perfect day for E?
Bike ride to the beach.
Build a booby trap.
And of course, ice cream.
Pretty sweet.

Fashion Fantasy

Fifi during "French Night" one of our themed
Saturday night dinners during the long, rainy spring.


Sometimes when I'm having my morning coffee, reading the New York Times, and surfing my favorite blogs, I get completely swept away by fashion fantasies. How cool to live in Paris where everyone looks incredible all the time. The women are beautiful (they aren't wearing sweat pants or tennis skirts) and they are drinking coffee and/or wine. Which frankly, I'm not ashamed to say, sounds perfect. Of course I'm deeply intellectual in the fantasy as well. It's not just stylish good looks. It's brains too. Enough brains that sitting is a cafe drinking is sustainable (not sad and drunken). My children are off at their special school for small, stylish, intellectuals. Sigh! My smattering of college French doesn't enable me to interpret this site, Punky B's Fashion Diary, but I love to cruise there anyway. And I always check The Sartorialist.
Fascinating.

Hello Friend

I'm back. I took a break. I was just reading the paper, cruising the blog-oshpere, eating bon bons. Yeah, that's what I was doing. Just chillin'..... Actually, it's been a whirlwind. Kids are growing, flowers are blooming, blessings are many. We've been on field trips, business trips, spontaneous road trips, and stay-cations as well. After a rainy spring, we are gearing up for some summer fun starting in the beautiful Midwest. Hurray!

Here are some moments from the last few months:

rodeo in Carefree, Arizona; kite flying in Gas Works Park; spring in the Arboretum wetlands,
Easter rituals, elementary school graduation; spring in the Sonoran desert; furnishing the house.