Monday, April 25, 2011

happy anniversary!

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happy anniversary
mum + daddio!

30 years and still making each other laugh...
CHEERS! to that.
xoxo

martha mondays

mondays
have become
my day to re-group around the house...
do the laundry, re-stock the fridge, cook and clean.
i have lovingly named this day of the week a "martha monday"
one part martha stewart and one part my mom martha
...
mornings in the kitchen
making lunch box snacks:
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organic trail mix
...
and
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organic homemade yogurts with mango compote
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...
a good fridge scrub-down
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makes one feel
fresh and new
ahhhhh.

in the oven:
oatmeal flax bread

spinning downstairs:
loads and loads of laundry

good to start the week!

Sunday, April 24, 2011

happy easter!

chirp chirp!

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HAPPY EASTER!

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spring is in FULL bloom
and the sun
is finally shining

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i hope this special sunday was filled with family, chocolate bunnies and sunshine.
xoxo

Friday, April 22, 2011

words for the week

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this week was a doozy...
looooooow lows
and great days.

but

i know

everything
DOES
happen for a reason...

and
life IS good.

and

i am so
SO
grateful
for friends and family.




Thursday, April 21, 2011

glitter-fest

theresa is here for spring break
so we spent yesterday
decorating dozens of eggs
for easter
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we had a (messy) blast
blowing out shells
dyeing, glueing and glittering
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and adding beads and wire to hang
on our "easter tree"
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

good day, sunshine

this past weekend
really did feel like spring
starting
with the opening of local ice cream shops
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my summer pick- perfectly tart pinkberry-esque yogurt with fresh berries

...
and fresh tunes
on the ipod
for the file stretch of my run

Thursday, April 14, 2011

comfort food

don't you love how certain foods can bring to back in time...
to a moment
or a place
to childhood in general
to home
?
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rice pilaf does it for me.
every.time.
cold, clumpy and straight from the left-over container.
usually shoveled, yes, shoveled while standing.
it brings me back to all those evenings before swim team practice, or just home from.
i can hear my mom telling me to sit.down. and chew!
ooh, so good.


and then
there are the unexpected...
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welch's white grape juice.
i found a bottle in my in-law's fridge a few months ago
and couldn't resist.
oh, i literally felt like a kid in a candy store!
so random, but so good.
right back to after-church coffe hour-
the only place we ever got non-watered-down juice.
100% sweet goodness.

what foods bring you back?

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

(the return of) words for the week

note to self:
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image: vol.25

slouchy in seafoam

while at nido a few weekends ago
i picked up the most yummy skein of wool
in a rich seafoam green
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perfect for the autumn hat
that's been in my ravelry favorites all winter
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such a satisfying project-
big needles, chunky yarn
two evenings
...
just in time
for those
misty
moody
early spring
beach walks

favorite shop: nido, burlington vt

while up in vermont
i had to make time to stop into (admittedly in paint-covered pants) one of my favorite shops in burlington:
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a perfectly edited fabric + yarn shop right downtown.

the exposed brick
warm winter sun streaming in the tall windows
antique cabinets and wooden crates
bursting with a rainbow of organic yarns
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favorite projects
hung to inspire
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oh, my!
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and the icing on the cake-
picture-perfect vignettes
featuring japanese goodies and the best in crafting books
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it's like a little purl
in the great green mountain state!

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

the waldo family painters

march wrapped up with a trip up to vermont
to help my sister + co. paint their new house before move-in.
i can't say enough about all the help my parents gave us when we moved last year
so this time, we took our show on the road...
here we are, the waldo family paint crew:
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actually, my mom is a CAH-RAZ-Y cleaner, so she was on scrub-down-duty
(with her toxic chemicals- she brought her own because we joked that they didn't sell bleach and pine-sol in the state of VT)
...
the kid's rooms were the first priority
and we decided on neutral palette's
so those quilts we made would pop...
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pictures really son't do justice to how much BIGGER the rooms look with lighter colors on the walls.
not to mention fresh trim paint.
ahhhhhh!

but, oh no...
that wasn't all.
it kept going.
and gooooing.

until, we all got a bit wacky...
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(must have been the cleaning fumes)

happy birthday daddio!

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it's a BIG one this year for my daddio
appropriately, he and my mum are celebrating somewhere sunny
...
i hope your day is extra special, sk!
looking forward to yard-work-weekend (his gift from all us kids) when you get back...
xoxo



Monday, April 11, 2011

march, in a nutshell

ok, so when even my husband comments on my lack-of-blogging
you know it's bad...

i've been all over the place.
lots of stories to tell-
pictures to share-

this was my march:

3/8: forcing spring
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3/9: loaded strawberry shortcake in celebration of my mom-in-law's birthday
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3/18: day with my mom complete with an afternoon beach walk in falmouth, ma
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shells aplenty before tourist season!
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...
3/19-20: weekend in little compton, ri...
ahhhhh.
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3/29: salem, ma for a day with the girls
all grown up
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and brand new
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now, catching up on my 1000+ reader queue...
stress!
i feel so out-of-the-loop!
hahaha