Interlude

DJ Nu-Mark - Take Me With You (Edit)

 

Santigold

Incredible show. The costumes, the backup dancers, the band. The vibe! She killed it.

Self-Portrait

A Firestar is Born

Lola's favorite superhero, from this show.

Jarrow

Dance Party

Wish List

TDK Boombox:

On Hollywood and Marriage

Michael Ian Black:

Hollywood has given us two, equally false, notions of marriage. Either it’s the joining of two gorgeous young people "destined" to be together, or as a wheezing and cold institution inhabited by miserable and middle-aged wheezebags, usually meant to illustrate a counterpoint to the love the gorgeous young couple in the film will share once their destinies are realized, and they are able to finally be together against all odds. Yawn. Boring. Wrong.

In my experience as a husband of thirteen years, marriage is neither of these things... It’s doing laundry. It’s paying bills. Cleaning the kitty litter. Marriage is a hundred thousand tiny tasks you share. It is peeling vegetables and changing lightbulbs and giving each other quick kisses and wishing for each other “a nice day.” It is coming home and smelling dinner cooking, and running out on a cold winter night for antacid because she has a headache and cannot sleep. Sometimes marriage is being pissed off at each other for weeks at a time. And sometimes it’s walking into your children’s bedrooms and watching them sleep.

Hollywood wants us to believe their promise and we want to believe it. So every once in a while, we agree to sit in a darkened theater and lie to each other for a couple hours... But for me, the real movie magic are all those tiny slices of time I have stored in my head, flickering images of my wife taken over the last thirteen years. It’s a movie I watch every day.

Mother's Day

"You know what's special about Mother's Day? I get to be in your house with you to celebrate it."

Fresh Guacamole

Lola's First Email

Lola asked me if I could send an email to her very best friend from school Lyla, who is away on a trip this week. Here is what she dictated to me.

Dear Lyla,
Please come to my house when you are back from your trip. I love you. I'm going to have my birthday celebration with you when you come back to school. Please, Lyla when you are back will you give me a big hug and we can fall over. It rained and you missed it. I had a giraffe umbrella. I missed you at sports camp, Addie missed you too. I sure know you are my friend. I miss youuuuuuu!!!
Love, Lola

Here is Lyla's response:

Dear Lola,
Love. I see my Grandma and Grandpa J today. We will go to the zoo and the children's museum when they are here. I love you. I could play Saturday morning if you can. Miss you too!Love Lyla

Our Little Adventurer

Lola participated in a cool program at school last week where she got to rock climb and kayak. Check her out so far off the ground. She only stopped because she could not reach the next hand hold. So brave for one so small. She had a blast in the kayak with Noah, the boy who teased her at the start of the year and she has completely won over, of course!

And, by the way, pretty cool that it is actually my job to hang out, watch the kiddos and take photos. I'm a lucky and proud Mama.