Sunday, March 31, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
Frog Builder
Shirt sums up my boy..... Full of constant imagining of fantastical things mixed with popcorn and music.
Children's Museum of Virginia
Today we are at the children's museum to celebrate the first full day of our spring break. This place is so cool! Time to play....
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Because any day is a good day for a carousel.
We have the most beautiful two-story Venetian carousel in our mall. I don't think people understand how gorgeous it is. Pipe organ, two stories with amazing details on the horses and canopy. The kids spin, and I look up at the paintings of Piazza San Marco and gondolas.
Library day!
Today is the twins library class. I loved watching the kids show off their homework and line up for class.
Come kindergarten when that yellow bus pulls up to our house to pick them up... There won't be tears!!! A confetti cannon send off with a marching bag will be an understatement for my excitement to finally have them in school!
Come kindergarten when that yellow bus pulls up to our house to pick them up... There won't be tears!!! A confetti cannon send off with a marching bag will be an understatement for my excitement to finally have them in school!
The Grim Reality of home renovation.
Next time we buy a house it's going to be done. DONE. No "super charming 1984 fixer upper on the land of a former vast pig farm next to the water sanitation facility and bleeds heat and A/C like a hemophiliac and you will outgrow the day you move in. By the way, the price will be unholy as its less than two miles from the beach." What's the big draw to living so close to the ocean? Asks the mountain girl. Seriously. Same house would be waaaaaaaaay less expensive further inland. But it's by the beach! On a pig farm! Next to the poop plant! You'll fall in love with that low tide smell, just you wait!
We are still working on the house improvements with the intent to run! Not walk! To a better home for our family. I seriously dislike renovation work. It unearths a wide history of nastiness. And cockroaches. And spiders that try to truck off with your baby over their creepy fuzzy heads.
Here's the floor. And the work that needs to be done. A tiny portion of the list of things we still need to do!
Next time I'm moving into a Swedish minimalist apartment/loft. So sterile that a cockroach would die from shock at the sparse opportunities to hide in their nasty shameful existences.
We are still working on the house improvements with the intent to run! Not walk! To a better home for our family. I seriously dislike renovation work. It unearths a wide history of nastiness. And cockroaches. And spiders that try to truck off with your baby over their creepy fuzzy heads.
Here's the floor. And the work that needs to be done. A tiny portion of the list of things we still need to do!
Next time I'm moving into a Swedish minimalist apartment/loft. So sterile that a cockroach would die from shock at the sparse opportunities to hide in their nasty shameful existences.
Why I hate Facebook.
I have this love/hate relationship with Facebook. Don't we all? I've had to get off FB twice for OPSEC reasons, and I loved the hiatus. I felt unbound. Kind of says something.... perhaps I was spending way too much time on something that Betty White once called "a colossal waste of time."
Fast forward to now. I understand why FB makes me so cranky. I live in a perpetual state of unknowing. When is the next deployment? When are we moving? Is husband going to be home for my birthday/kids birthdays/any given holiday? I feel sad for myself and my kids when I see others who live in a place with long, solid roots planted. I want that for me, for my kids. Hmmm... that sort of envy isn't good for anyone.
Here's the thing: FB connected me to many people that I have long since lost contact with. I sobbed with joy when I found people I helped convert to Mormonism when I was a missionary in Spain over ten years ago. I have reconnected with High School friends that I thought I'd never see again due to my hectic life. But now.... So long, FB, and thanks for all the fish!
We are currently in a state of unknowing. I'd like to personally thank congress for this upcoming furlough / sequester that my husband will be gifted. A 20% pay cut living on the Beach? Why, yes, please! What a lovely surprise. Husband has interviewed with a couple of organizations that WANT to hire him, but Congress says not right now! While they golf at their 250,000$ a year country clubs, I'll be clipping coupons this year. Thanks, sequester.
What a ride! No, but seriously. One Pollyanna part of this kind of life is that I completely and totally find gratitude for the things we have, the children I have, the health we enjoy, and the gift of living.
Time to go...
Fast forward to now. I understand why FB makes me so cranky. I live in a perpetual state of unknowing. When is the next deployment? When are we moving? Is husband going to be home for my birthday/kids birthdays/any given holiday? I feel sad for myself and my kids when I see others who live in a place with long, solid roots planted. I want that for me, for my kids. Hmmm... that sort of envy isn't good for anyone.
Here's the thing: FB connected me to many people that I have long since lost contact with. I sobbed with joy when I found people I helped convert to Mormonism when I was a missionary in Spain over ten years ago. I have reconnected with High School friends that I thought I'd never see again due to my hectic life. But now.... So long, FB, and thanks for all the fish!
We are currently in a state of unknowing. I'd like to personally thank congress for this upcoming furlough / sequester that my husband will be gifted. A 20% pay cut living on the Beach? Why, yes, please! What a lovely surprise. Husband has interviewed with a couple of organizations that WANT to hire him, but Congress says not right now! While they golf at their 250,000$ a year country clubs, I'll be clipping coupons this year. Thanks, sequester.
What a ride! No, but seriously. One Pollyanna part of this kind of life is that I completely and totally find gratitude for the things we have, the children I have, the health we enjoy, and the gift of living.
Time to go...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
DC Trippin'
I love our nation's capital. Washington DC has a vibrancy that is singular! You know how people get all crazy when they see a celebrity, reality star, pop music star? Well that's me around political players. The thought of meeting the Secretary of State or a Supreme Court justice makes my heart palpitate. I dreamed of meeting Colin Powell for years, to talk to Madeline Albright or Ruth Ginsburg. So, when our little family drives the three hours to hop the blue line and enjoy the mall. The Smithsonian! I mean, really. This trip I actually got my family into the Hirshorn Gallery. I tried my best to convey how cool Piet Mondrian is, or the controversy of Ai Weiwei. Some day they'll get it. And they will appreciate it!
Saturday, March 9, 2013
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