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  • Rebecca Tuesday 14 February 2012 One response
    early valentine's daffodils
    I just realized it is already mid-February. How did that happen?I keep writing a post in my head about Elan's 1-month post-tonsillectomy update.But somehow, writing it in my head doesn't mean you get to read it. Funny how that goes.Anyway, what I wanted to say is that Elan loves Instagram. He loves playing around with the filters and choosing one his very own self. Like this:I love my new iPhone. It's my first smartphone (after years of using hand-me-down cell phones from Mikhail and even my parents).While driving Elan to preschool, I asked Siri what the weather would be today. When she responded, Elan exclaimed, "Mama, your phone is smart!" Perhaps that's the origin of the term smartphone: a 5-year-old.It's pretty. It's white. It takes great photos and video. It talks. Now if only it could fold the laundry."Siri, fold the laundry!"I've tried it. It doesn't work.

  • Rebecca - Tuesday 27 December 2011 - No responses
    completion
    Driftwood burl, Washington, August 2011My friend Andrea posted a cool free downloadable worksheet that's about completing 2011 and looking forward to 2012. I think it will be a perfect way to ease into what Mikhail and I have done around new year's these last few years: picking our word (or two, or three) for the year to come. Looking back and looking forward, that's so much what this last week of the year is for me.
  • Rebecca - Tuesday 29 November 2011 - One response
    on a cold and foggy morning...
    Someone came and frosted the spiderwebs.Or should I say they dewed the spiderwebs.Except it doesn't sound as good.Now these someones, the ones who go around frosting or dewing the spiderwebs, whichever you want to call it, depending on whether you're in a literary or literal type of mood...Are they the same someones who put flyers on my car windshield in the middle of the night?I don't think so. Two separate job descriptions, ... more
  • Rebecca - Tuesday 11 October 2011 - No responses
    yosemite, anytime
    Rocks & stream, outside Yosemite, July 2008It has been too long since Mikhail and I went to Yosemite. We've been discussing this a lot lately. We keep trying to find a little time to make a pilgrimage, but we haven't yet. In the meantime, I came across these time-lapse videos of Yosemite. Each one takes only a minute to watch. Watch the weather move in, or the snow melt, or the moon rise over Half Dome. A little vicarious nature enjoyment, and a ... more
  • Rebecca - Wednesday 20 July 2011 - No responses
    a new couch
    We bought a new couch. It was rather an impulse purchase. Now that Mikhail has A New Job, we are celebrating the ability to make purchases again, impulse or not. We knew we needed a new couch sometime soon, though the first month of The New Job, after 18 months of semi-employment, wasn't the ideal time for non-essential purchases. But then I looked on Craigslist "to see what's out there," and found a really great leather couch and a lot of not-great leather couches, the kind with all the slouchy ... more
  • Rebecca - Friday 1 July 2011 - One response
    a little close to home
    From my absolute favorite parenting-related magazine: Brain, Child. In the last issue they asked parents to write in with the funniest tact-free things your child has said. This one had me cracking up:
    "We were eating dinner one evening and the subject of hair color came up. My seven-year-old son Caleb asked, "Why do people call my hair 'strawberry blonde'?" "Well, I said, "I think it means that people think your hair is a little blonde and a little red, like a strawberry." He thought for a moment, looked at ... more
  • Rebecca - Sunday 26 June 2011 - No responses
    superhero photos
    Boy plus elephant, April 2011, San Diego ZooI've got my new camera that I'm still learning, and a rediscovered passion for photography to go along with it. As a result, I'm bucking that second-kid trend: I take more photos of both my children now than I took of Elan was he was a baby. Given that, I'm very excited about my friend Andrea's new Superhero Photo online class. She's an amazing photographer and an amazing person. Lots to learn from her. I'm going ... more
  • Rebecca - Wednesday 15 June 2011 - No responses
    this mama's little helper
    A glass of wine is my secret weapon for how to keep my patience and have fun with my kids at the end of the day, when everyone's tired and hungry and my nerves tend to get a little frazzled.Either that, or a babysitter and Zumba class...
  • Rebecca - Thursday 2 June 2011 - No responses
    the mother's prayer for its daughter, by tina fey
    It has not been over 2 weeks since I last posted on here, has it?Oh. It has. Oops.I have many posts brewing - posts saved at "draft" along with the ones that have only been written in my mind. But I do find it useful to sometimes just post one thing, you know how that is, even if you don't blog, right? Just open a few bills off the top of that stack you've been avoiding. Just go to the gym once after you've been making excuses for too long. ... more
  • Rebecca - Wednesday 11 May 2011 - No responses
    my new favorite kitchen accessory & quick peanut sauce for dinner
    We just got an electric kettle, and I'm smitten. Suddenly, I'm drinking herbal tea regularly, instead of just thinking that I should (sweetened herbal tea helps to satiate my 4 p.m. sweet/caffeine craving, without ODing on sugar or staying up all night cause I drank coffee after noon). And I no longer have that annoying situation where I turn the kettle on and by the time it's whistling its heart out on the stove, I'm upstairs elbow-deep in a poopy diaper. Or ensconced in my rocking chair, nursing ... more
  • Rebecca - Monday 25 April 2011 - One response
    sanity saver
    Shortly after Emry was born and our various familial helpers went home, I became afraid of the amount of television Elan was likely to consume now that we had a baby in the mix. Since Elan is such an early riser and Mikhail and I are barely functional before 7 a.m., morning TV and videos have long been a survival tactic for us. When he started dropping his nap around age 3, I was determined not to resort to videos to help him have a little recharge time. I thought ... more
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