Getting back from Boston was a little bit of an ordeal. There were a whole bunch of rain delays and canceled flights, but I ended up lucking into a replacement flight that went all the way from Boston to Oakland,…
A weekend in Boston
I’ll write more about the reason tomorrow, but I unexpectedly found myself in Boston over a long weekend. It was fabulous and exhausting and really really thrilling because the work I have ahead of me is going to be so…
2010 Year of Pleasures #43
I hated babysitting when I was a teen, but there was one family I would watch and it was because the mom was really into food preservation and always had home dried bananas in the house. Bananas dried in a…
2010 Year of Pleasures #42
Fall is here! And with it comes the fabulous flavor of pumpkin in all of my favorite treats. Pumpkin bread, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin spiced hot chocolate, and pumpkin flavored frozen yogurt. I don’t know if I love it so much…
2010 Year of Pleasures #41
A beautiful expression of friendship from a truly beautiful friend. I am so lucky to have you in my world, Janet.
2010 Year of Pleasures #40
Do you know how much time I have saved thanks to this beautiful, beautiful machine? No trying to steer a stroller through a maze of a line, no more trying to get around people filling out forms, now I just…
2010 Year of Pleasures #39
Bear’s out of town this week, and with how totally overwhelmed I’ve been feeling lately, I was pretty panicked about it. But then I decided to just seize this opportunity to do whatever the heck I felt like whenever the…
Thrift store SCORE!
Over labor day weekend while Atti was playing with Grandma, I took the opportunity to sneak away with Bear and his dad to do a little thrifting. Ventura is a great little beach town with some wonderful shops, and I…
2010 Year of Pleasures #38
I found these while out thrifting over the labor day weekend. Do you know how hard it is to find vintage patterns in a modern size? I saw these and immediately hugged them to my chest while rapturous visions of…
2010 Year of Pleasures #37
Our beautiful antique tulip chair has finally died. For some reason, 50 year old plastic did not hold up to the two giants who live in this house. I nursed it along for as long as I could. I even…