{this moment}

Soulemama's Friday Ritual. I am joining in this week.

Summer, Oh Favorite Season of Mine

What is there not to love about this season? Brown/red shoulders, chubby baby bodies shimmied into tight little bathing suits, plastic pools and dinners outside... I wonder if sumer would be so fun if it happened all year long? Somehow I don't think so, but I can't imagine why...

We just got back from a trip to see my family in Texas and from a close friend's wedding in California only to find the last vestiges of Spring burned into green greeness here in New Jersey. Funny that I likely would not have noticed it had we not left for the month of July but seemingly all colors merged into one in our absence.

There is much work to be done around this cozy little, messy little place of ours. Vegetables to be harvested (cucumbers! tomatoes! even a pepper!), lawn to be mowed, lots and lots of old but new now toys to be played with. Ahhh, summer, please hang around a while...

Remember to Breathe

I am not exactly sure how to reenter this space. It has been so SO long. I don't think I have ever been gone for such an extended period of time. How I have missed this little corner of the world--the safety of it here, the real coziness, the support, and the quirkiness of it all. Normalcy is {somewhat} returning to our lives. We have survived our third move within a year and a half and a kitchen renovation and are no worse for the wear {so far}. I am looking forward to posting again regularly with kitchen and garden updates from this topsy-turvy life. Happy Summer to all of you! xo

Happy Mother's Day

::started with purple sparkles, ringlets, blue silk, then irises, and vegetables, wine and noodles. What a day::

We Interrupt The Regularly Scheduled Programing...

to announce a Dog the Bounty Hunter spotting. Approximately 8:15 p.m, Barnes and Noble, Clifton, NJ. Long, blond , permed and bleached. Awesome.

In The Playroom

We have spent an extraordinary amount of time indoors lately due to all of the sickness. The drama that unfolds in the playroom, both real and make-believe, is the stuff, the story in our lives right now. Princesses and dragons, marriages and brawls, elephants and dinosaurs, light and dark.

Outside

Lately I have been trying to be more aware o my surroundings, more in the moment, less in my head. I have spent much too much time dwelling up there these days. There is a whole wide world outside of it. Last weekend (before our latest round of sickness, this one involving yours truly. Ugh.), I sat outside with my knitting watching the snow melt away before my eyes. Dripping from one branch to another. Some squealing from my children in the background but mostly just me, my knitting and the drips. Lovely.