sleepover!

these boys love eachother!

 

Meg and Crys...WE LOVE YOU !

...because you always send cards and letters and care packages at just the right moment....and because you make amazing and wonderful forever art (below)...and because the world is so much better because of YOU

Maurice Sendak

Impossible not to feel something when reading his words.  Concise and true, always.
And I will never forget the way he animated Little Bear. Never.



"There must be more to life than having everything."

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”

“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”

“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...”

 
 "Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross."

“And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!”

Emmett's Work

Great!

I want to remember this!

 Talent show 2012!
My camera died at the very beginning of Silas' capoeira demonstration but luckily Zane's moms
sent me the video of his and Emmett's original song.

I love the talent show. (One year, Cam, you guys all have to come. It is seriously fun...especially if you enjoy people watching, of the younger variety!)

A good one Cam.

Read this article.

The Myth of Sustainable Meat.

(...and look, that cow has a heart

on his head!)

This House is One of MY FAVORITES

click in it to see it big.
I love that it is kinda falling apart....and the wisteria....

Love this one.

Caine's Arcade from Nirvan Mullick on Vimeo.

what do you think?

Emmett and Silas want to play basketball in the street every single day.
So we need a sign. But we don't want to be annoying...just get some attention so people slow down.

"Slow Children at Play" always bothered me because my kids aren't slow.


This is nicer, but condescending?



This one looks official but am I allowed to stick a sign out in the middle of the road? And it also seems a little bossy.


I think I choose this one. People would slow down and look all around for the horses.
Kids would be safe and everyone would be too perplexed to be pissy about it.
I'm ordering it.

Flowers!

ARt, the huNtingtOn MusEuM anD a ReaLLy GoOd TimE

So, we went to LA to bring Mac and Jordan to see American Idiot, the Green Day musical that Mac got as a Christmas present...but we also went to the Huntington Museum AND Botanical Gardens and the Museum of Contemporary Art. It was really really fun because these kids are such interested and interesting people!
We also discovered the Standard Hotel which you just have to check out. It's cooler than it looks!

Three Red Heads!

Happy St. Patricks Day!!!
(we are missing our other lovely gingers....)

New Bunny Enclosure

You gotta click on this to see Lion's cutie little face. They love it out there.
We bring them in at night.

Surf Lessons from Crys

Meg and Crys took Em and Si to the beach for some winter fun. The best part, besides Emmett standing up on that board all day...Megan's enthusiasm!


We love and miss you guys!!

This is MY LAUREN and her family from Maine!!!

Check it out! Swallowtail Farm and Creamery!

this is amazing



EN POINTE! from The Apiary on Vimeo.

(thank you caroline for sending it to me!:)

mama

New School, New Carpool

Good-bye San Diego High International Studies...Hello High Tech High International. ( I wish all the schools we know had short names like Walden. Wouldn't it be cool if the HTH schools were instead called something like Whitman, Poe and Tolstoy! )

Mac is so happy. And this is the only picture I was allowed to take. (One day I will have to sneak inside to get a better shot of its inner beauty for you Cam.)

And I am so happy to share the morning commute with Aida and Pablo now. It's not easy (or smart) to take pictures while driving but I just had to...

Trips

You know we are serious about saving money to do some

traveling when I make a savings jar. Right now

we want to get the kids to Indiana to visit Megan and Crys

and then all of us need to save up to get

to New York to visit Craig, Cami, Finley, Bebe and Grancops.

Eventually, Nebraska....and then, one day... Italy, Africa, France!

;)