And now, this darling Vespa has been documented by my camera, as seen on my recent walk around the neighborhood. Wishing you a wonderful weekend friends, we will be taking a tour of the Noodle's new school and working on the campus cleanup and hosting our family for Sunday dinner.
Also, I'll be sending safe thoughts for those of you on the East Coast all weekend long.
xo,
Jess
We went on a little getaway with Jeff's mom this weekend to the quaint and quirky Ocean Echo Inn. We did not bring laptops and I only used my iPhone for photography, maps and weather.
Today I am so excited because I am going on a field trip. You can read all about in my guest post at the Green Phone Booth.
Happy Monday friends! I am slowly on the mend, and I did get out of the house quite a bit despite feeling cruddy because a girl can only take so much of sitting 'round in her jammies. Right? So Friday after seeing my doc and getting antibiotics, I took the Noodle to a park and then a movie (darling by the way).
Saturday was my father-in-law's birthday and we met at his alma mater, Cal, for lunch. Afterwards, we meandered over to Jack London Square in Oakland and while we couldn't rent a motorboat as requested by our enthusiastic little sailor boy, we did find a place to rent kayaks. Surprisingly, I am the only one in the family with previous kayaking experience! I was quite proud of that actually. The wind was a bit much for me, so I got dropped off fairly early.
Yesterday was a lovely day spent at home in warm sunshine. I made lemonade with lemons from a friend's tree, and served it to my little guy and our neighbor's son (same age) out front in their clubhouse. You had to be invited, and then you had to sign in to their club in order to enter and then finally you were allowed to decipher the club's name. I helped them write in a cipher*, a most basic substitution kind, which we learned from the Dangerous Book for Boys. I would tell you the name, but then you know what would have to happen. Heh heh!
But none of this is the point of this post. This video is the point of this post:
Rather, the soundtrack to this video is the point of this post (but I thought the video was pretty enough to share, how about that sun flare at the very end?! Love!) While everyone was out swimming yesterday in the late afternoon, I took it upon myself to start trying to learn Fur Elise on the piano keyboard!
This has been a dream of mine since 2003! I have learned the first two bars, is that what they're called? I got stuck because I didn't know where G# was but I have figured it out the sharp (and flat) keys this morning. So back to the keyboard I go after posting this. When I have successfully learned the entire song, I promise to make my own video and share it here on the blog.
How was your weekend?
* Another dream of mine? To be a spy. :)
Good morning! Our weekend turned out to be bursting with fun. Friday we had a good storm and by the evening, the skies were dramatic! I took a few photos on our way to see Disney's Alice in Wonderland at a school pajama party with pizza. Kid heaven!
Yesterday we met a dear friend of mine and her family for an epic adventure at the coast. It was so epic that we completely lost track of time and the hike back to the cars took much longer than expected. The only sour note of the weekend was that we had invited my poor MIL for dinner and she arrived on time, but we didn't. She waited and waited for us at home, but by the time we reached a place with a cell signal again, it was much too late and she rightfully gave up on us. We feel terrible about it and we're scheming a way to make it up to her.
How did your weekend turn out?
* Very harsh lighting conditions but you get some idea of where we were yesterday.
This weekend I hope to do some catching up. Four-day weekends are fun and all, but they leave me rather behind on the everyday things like housework, paperwork, cooking, and the general organizing that a family seems to need to keep functioning. Not to mention, there is a collection happening right next door for the school rummage sale and I'm definitely in the mood to do some purging. Also there has been a lot of Valentine makings going on around here lately, and now I'm in the mood to do some crafting.
But mostly I plan to catch up with my camera because I finally have a new pack of film!
To kick off my hopefully productive weekend, I'm meeting a friend for a cocktail this evening so we can catch up with each other. I can already tell that my plans for the weekend are unrealistic because we have a non-local birthday party tomorrow, plus I have some school volunteer projects to do. It's the old too-much-to-do-and-not-enough-time-to-do-it problem.
What are you doing this weekend?
I had the most wonderful day in Alameda yesterday with two great friends. We left bright and early and slowly made our way from the back to the front of the antique fair. The weather was perfect: blue skies, not too cold and not too hot. I got some treasures which I will share with you tomorrow. Mean blogger!
Here are some of the treasures I did not take home.
It was an honor to document this special occasion for a truly beautiful family, inside and out.
The very best part was while I was out walking with my camera, a little dream came true and I met someone very special. I am crazy in love.
Art for the big-hearted, radiant woman who is ready to immerse herself in beauty.
