signing off

it's spring break. 

even if there are no beaches in my future, i'm going to spend this week with my kids.

i'll see ya when i see ya!

what are you doing for spring break?

book 4

listening to harry potter on cd is fantastic. FANTASTIC! i've only read through the entire series start to finish, twice (in a row--i've read each book about 5-10 times individually, but all 7 in a row only twice). i learned some new things and cried a lot. A LOT. it was a very different perspective to listen instead of read.

• when hermione, ron, and harry become friends because "there are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other". knowing what that friendship will turn into, what they will go through together and do for one another...i can't even think about it without tearing up again.
  
• when harry gets the invisibility cloak at christmas. the sacrifice it was for dumbledore to give it to harry, knowing that it was one of the 3 hallows. it was painful.
  
• the first time harry sees snape and how much snape hates him because he looks just like his dad. but i want to know what went through his head when he saw lily's eyes.
  
• in book 3 how scared hermione gets when they're trapped with sirius black in the shrieking shack, but uses her logical mind to work out what's going on by the end. it's her first experience actually with harry at the end of the book when their lives are in danger.
  
• lots lots lots lots lots lots lots more.

i finished book 3 thursday night and my library doesn't have book 4. my sister has 6 of the books on cd and the ONLY one she is missing is book 4. what are the chances? i'm dying for book 4!

do you like listening to books on tape (or cd, i guess)? i know i have a few readers that have not read harry potter yet. why not? get moving!

i need to go back.

i took the kids to the library yesterday and planned on taking them to play at mcdonald's afterwards. i needed something to do while they played so i grabbed a book off the new arrivals shelf. i didn't get a chance to start reading until zoe's nap and then i read all day, every chance i got, and finished last night at midnight. i will not be telling you the name of this book (i was at the children's library, so this book is juvenile literature at best, and very stupidly predictable at its worst). but i LOVED it.

lovedlovedlovedlovedlovedlovedlovedlovedlovedit.

the story is about a girl whose parents send her to a paris boarding school for her senior year of high school. and she's mad about it. ha! right. like that would ever happen. but i can't get this stupid book out of my head now.  i have this ache inside me , a need to get back that i can't describe. reading about the places i went but more than that--that this stupid girl gets to LIVE there. couple that feeling with my envy over whoever gets this experience of being an au pair for an american family in paris...to live there for free and experience paris as a local, i just can't stop thinking about it. somebody turn my obsessive brain OFF. every time i woke up in the night, scenes from the book were running through my mind. i woke up this morning, starving, wishing for pain au chocolat, fresh croissants, and crepes. and then my sister-in-law posted today that she's leaving for france next week. it's all too much. someone take me back!

try not to notice my dorky pose, i was trying to bend over so you could see both me and point zero and it...didn't work out.

(the reason i'm showing you this dorky picture of me at point zero outside notre dame is because this spot plays a pretty important part of the story of the nameless book. and it's one of a very few that i've never put on the blog...because of its dorkiness.)

we have to go back... WE HAVE TO GO BACK! (name that show)

where would you go if you could go anywhere right now?

favorite photo friday - 03.01.12

i really hate the strip of light across her face but i didn't want to move her and risk losing her interest. she's been really into puzzles lately and it's just too cute.

random thought thursday

i'm ready for summer.

i would say spring but that entails wind,

so i am skipping my spring readiness this year.

if this dress had a different top

(and wasn't $300),

i would purchase it for my summer wardrobe

and wear it 3 times a week.

******

today dave is working from home

so i can drive to albuquerque

to go with my niece to the temple for the first time.

can i tell you how surreal it was to write that?

my NIECE is getting married in a week.

******

my legs are shaky.

all that sitting

must really take it out of me.

******

did you see the real housewives of disney

on saturday night live this week?

i was DYING.

lindsay lohan is sooo lucky

they wrote that sketch while she was hosting.

******

how do people keep their smart phone faces clean?

i borrowed somebody's phone on sunday

and when i handed it back it had a huge imprint

of my face on it. so gross, and embarrassing.

******

i texted my dad yesterday to see if he was having fun in albuquerque.

he said "oh yeah, i took their car to get serviced

and had their tires rotated. fun."

always being a dad.

******

i love the chevy sonic commercial song.

******

the previews for last night's psych almost put me in a panic attack.

i haven't watched it, don't know if i can.

the shining is by far the scariest movie i've ever seen

and even a spoof of it is probably too much for me.

******

have you watched the kony video yet?

i haven't had a chance but it's starting a firestorm.

awesome.

******

isaac popped zoe's jumpolene last night.

that was $40 well spent.

******

this week i started work on a quilt.

that's right, i might actually use my sewing machine

for a second time.

(emphasis on "might").

******

my mother-in-law sent me a clipping

from entertainment weekly (i think?)

with an article about the hunger games movie.

it was an awesome article

but even more awesome

is my mother-in-law.

******

peaches mama?

the family dropped noah off at preschool this morning. like usual, zoe hung up her backpack next to noah's, "signed" her name on the sign-in sheet, and got a toy to play with at the table quietly. she does this every day and says "bye-bye" to me, hope in her eyes that just this once, i'll actually leave her there. i didn't. but on the way out, she spotted the snack for the day: cups of diced peaches. her eyes pleaded with me, and she said "peaches, mama?"

"we can't eat those ones, but we have some at home."

"home! okay!" she cried and ran blissfully to the car.

only there weren't any peaches at home. we ate them all at dinner last night. so she had cereal, but after we rinsed out her bowl she looked up again and said "more? more peaches mama?"

"no, they're all gone. we'll have to get some at the store."

she ran to the front door, shoes in hand, ready to go to the store. how could i resist her request? we needed a few things anyway, so off we went. 4 peach cups and $65 at safeway later, we arrived home. she ran to the table.

"peaches, mama?"

happy in my ability to provide exactly what my daughter wants (and feeling a little virtuous about her healthy request) i opened up her peaches and gave her a spoon, then proceeded to put away the groceries. a minute later i felt a tug on my pants.

"how were your peaches, baby girl?"

"no, no peaches. i no like it peaches."

and just like that, life with a two year old begins.

monday at the foleys