There are three style trends this season that I can wholeheartedly embrace:
1. Messy Buns
2. Stripes
3. Neons (turquoise! hot pink!)
Finally things I love (and wear practically everyday) are in style!
Messy buns, stripes, and neons may not still be stylish next year, but I have a feeling I will continue to wear them for years to come. I’m savoring this stylish moment.
And every day with this adorable peanut. We had a perfect Mama’s Day.
We hope you had a nice weekend too!
What could be more fun than playing in the mud while wearing a pink poofy dress?! It’s our daughter’s idea of a perfect weekend moment.
We first introduced our daughter to the concept of evolution when she was two years old with this fantastic book, Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story
While our toddler liked the pictures, the only part she really grasped on to was that we share a common ancestry with monkeys. For months after reading this book she’d ask us questions like, “Mom, when were we monkeys?” One day she exclaimed, “When I climb trees then I’ll have a tail again! No, no, no, we’ll never have tails again!”
She recently started asking more questions about evolution, so we felt it was high time to check Our Family Tree
I particularly love this book because it explains how we evolved over time with concise descriptions, poignant examples, poetic verse, and beautiful illustrations.
With each example of an evolutionary change, the author relates that shift to us today.
Our now four year old daughter soaked up the storytelling, the pictures, and the thought-provoking story.
I do believe we need to buy our own copy.
The wait is over! The house finch birds eggs (situated in the repurposed sugar bowl of our wind chimes) have hatched.
They babies are (sorta) fluffy, (kinda) cute, and (definitely!) hungry.
May I present the baby birds living on our front porch:
Sorry, Mama Bird, for scaring you off when I came out the front door. (Evidently I am not to be trusted.) Thank you for letting me have a moment with your babies. We’re excited to watch them grow up.
Our spring perennials are beginning to burst into bloom:
While we’re certainly enjoying the flowers in our front yard, I’ve made a radical decision regarding our vegetable garden this summer: we’re not going to plant one. I feel as though I only have so much time right now and I’d rather use that to dehydrate and can crops from friends’ trees and the farmer’s market than grow a meager supply of vegetables in our tiny front garden.
(I found making this decision–even typing it here!–to be so liberating, such a weight off my shoulders. Clearly this is what I need to do this year.)
I imagine that this is a temporary move and that we’ll plant a vegetable garden again next year, but this year we have other stuff going on. I can only do so much right now. My plate is full.
Not that I’m complaining! On the contrary, life is good!
