the jump

take 1

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take 4 YAY!

 

 

my four valentines

chicks

in a few weeks they can roam freely in the backyard

and in six months they will be laying eggs ^.^

her first suitor

Snow is 11 now. This afternoon, a boy stopped by with some nutty bars. As I took this picture, I told them they kinda look alike. One of them replied, "Yeah, except we are not brother and sister, we are boyfriend and girlfriend."

Snowcones, merengue and waltz :) What ever happened to playdates spending countless hours setting up playmobil and legos???

They laid in the hammock out in the backyard. Maku was nosy enough to follow them around. Marc and I were nosy enough to spy from the back window while chewing on yummy nutty bars.

here is Snow...all smiles hours after the boy left

And here I am...bemused.

I took a snapshot hoping to capture the strangest mix of emotions I was experiencing. This is what I got. Me. Feeling (and looking) 11 years older. *sigh*

i spy...

...with my little eye...

blue fingernails

a purple door

a pink camera

marc's cracked iphone

hockey happiness is...

...getting to your seat and realizing only a piece of glass separates you from the rink

...cheering, screaming, and doing the wave (it was Capitals vs. Lightning - for those who want to know :P)

...being welcomed in somebody's lap when pucks and players slamming onto the opposite side of the glass where you are sitting terrify you

SLAM!

...zambonis

...shootouts

...and being 10 years old and having a puck land in your lap at your first ever hockey game.

well, actually, it landed on my shin (ow!) then bounced off. i managed to grab it but lost my grip. it then slid across the floor, we struggled with someone who jumped from three rows behind us. after a few seconds of pinching and nudging - wine spilled and camera banged - the puck was ours!


and after the game...

it's this

this

and this :)

plus one

This is Ollie. We adopted him last week. He is a 3 year old maltipoo.
He brings us smiles, giggles, and fleas :)

Welcome to our family, Ollie. We love you :*

laundry bits

looking through pics...

missing blogging :)

it's a process :)

all moved in with Marc and his cat Prairie - and Maku and Snow of course ;)
moving in with someone as an adult is such a complex thing or maybe because there are two other little hearts involved.
i have been going through a lot of mixed feelings; a sense of uneasiness within my calmness, happiness tinted with dismay, seemingly content but burdened at the same time.
yep. one of my few gloomy posts...but like i said happy but sad :)

i take solace in friends and family (and a little bit of alcohol here and there), ^.^ i find it soothing to listen, dance, and sing to my favorite music but i somehow find daily comfort in the simplicity and nakedness of what is around me. i like my furniture plain and rough, i like my cupboards barely full, my fridge almost empty. my walls almost bare. unembellished and unadorned. stark and primitive.
i do not like to display machine-made art or one that is suffocating under a piece of glass. i do not like to keep things in case i need them one day.
i am whining, i know. i am quickly learning about compromising. something i never had to do before. i don't know why, maybe because i shared similar views with that certain person i lived with throughout most of my adult life or simply because he spoiled me to death (until he got tired of it and left --heehee).

and now, as i hang framed prints and laminated photos :P, i look at pictures of my old place-- missing how my home was and at the same time feeling a bit triumphant that i am finally growing up and, well...compromising :) --> this is my effort to look at the bright side :D
and no, you will not see photos of my cluttered walls :)
oh hey, i went to las vegas the other week. maybe i should talk about that ;) or how i need to change my header, i've had that sea urchin pic for over a year now :)

cousins

family of 13

5 kids
8 grown ups
1 dog
and 10 gallons of water a day :)

it has been 5 1/2 awesome days. and no, i do not keep track by the empty water jugs
but it is so fun how consistent we have been with our water consumption ;)

9 more jugs of water to go...then we have to part once again :'/

visiting pennsylvania

i find myself under this tree again after two years
but this time under different circumstances ;)
it seems like decades ago when i posted this
but really it was only about a hundred blog posts ago
how things change :D

mug shots :D

awesomeness :)