Easter weekend! I’m really looking forward to signing off and being with my people. Like a lot. I feel like I haven’t been very present lately and it’s gnawing at me. I hate when I’m not present enough as a Mom. The work/life balance is tough for me (and something I lay the guilt on thick for.)
Notes for the road…
Taaaaarget! Believe it or not (this is easy to believe, why would I lie about this?), this is a picture not from my last trip to Target but the time before that. Last time I forgot to get one in the blessed family bathroom this trip the way I usually do. And what is a Target post without a picture of me and my people. Let’s do this!
Easter egg decorating. The one time a year I buy white eggs. Though every corner in town has piled high a mound of dirty, ice-flecked snow, and the skies are most often still a dingy gray, Easter is coming. At least I think it is. Last year I recall making a pot roast on Easter and having it be a, surprising to all, 75 degree day. I think about the menu now to prepare. Warming foods. Heavy foods. After all, there are some flurries swirling about as we speak. But then the weather could do a total 180 like last year and there we are, sweating over our Martha Stewart pot roast and roasted vegetables in a hot kitchen. Best laid plans.
A picture to beckon spring! This has been a busy week for me, and I’m so looking forward to putting the computer and phone away this weekend and being with the family starting right NOW. Tonight we’re going to have a movie night. Any good recommendations? Send them my way, please! What are your plans?
Some weekend reading…
01. Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It’s available on Netflix! right! now! Go watch it. I was scrolling the other night and of course looked no further once I saw that it was there. Love that movie. I did a rendition of “Inside You” with Steve after we started it the other night (lol). I’m trying to have a strict 10:30 bedtime lately, so I didn’t watch the whole thing, but I will return to it for sure. It’s been a favorite for a long time.
02. Food Network with the boys. We have the Food Network app but sometimes I forget about it. The other day I remembered Barefoot Contessa (not like I ever forgot her; I make her food all the time. But I had sort of forgotten about her show.) and I’m telling you watching her is like hypnotic for me and the boys. I used to watch it with Lindsey back in the day. It feels like so much more worthwhile TV than most cartoons, and they love it! I’m dreaming that it will make them a little more daring to try new things when they see her preparing them. (They’ve also watched the Kids Baking Competition and are loving that as well.)
03. This Essie nail polish. Just picked it up at Target and it’s like the perfect spring color, never mind the weather is not at all spring like. (Waiting for snow to begin any second now. No, like actually. We’re supposed to get hit tonight.)
04. Armchair Expert. It’s my latest podcast listen and I really like it. I’ve listened to one and a half so far (Kristen Bell and 1/2 of Jimmy Kimmel’s) but it’s the one I’m reaching for most. It’s just a casual conversation about the struggles and triumphs of being a human really, with a good dose of storytelling in between. I’ve been a fan of Dax since his Parenthood days, and then his marriage with Kristen Bell (love her too), so it was an easy sell for me.
05. This video of a baby elephant cuddling with a human. I almost never watch FB videos, but I’ve watched this one like four times. I love it. I wish I could cuddle with a baby elephant.
Easter’s around the corner, and maybe you’re already prepared, and maybe you’re not. (If the latter is you, you’ve come to the right place!) I’ve rounded up some of my favorite baskets and fillers today. And man, we already have baskets (similar to #4, from Target a couple years back), but that #6 is insanely cute to me right now. Here’s a few fillers I got for the kids, and a few things I’m still thinking about…
There’s certain times that feel very “I have arrived” as a mother or home owner. When I asked for a Dutch oven for Christmas and was thrilled when I got one. When I want to post about a robe and slippers because they’re my favorite things ever. And now posting about a rewards chart for my six-year old. I am a Mom, I have been for years now, so why do posts like this surprise me?!
I snuck this picture this morning while he was still fast asleep. I feel like he’s sleeping a little later lately–which totally makes me think he’s getting older (duh) and going to start sleeping more like the teenager he practically is (stop, Bridget.).
Some notes for the road…
Parker had an old point-and-shoot camera a few years back. It had been sitting around, mainly collecting dust, since its previous owner had retired it in favor of a DSLR or, let’s be serious, an iPhone. I gave it to him, and he was thrilled. He got it just before we left for our big sabbatical abroad. Once we came back, he used it for at least a few more months, before it finally bit the dust.
The title of this post alone is a little “womp womp.” We had a 70+ degree day a few weeks back, so when we were walloped with two storms recently–one that was more high winds and rain–and the other that dumped quite a bit of white snow and even a 24-hour power outage on us, it’s a little (a lot) less welcome. Parker–who can be a bit of contrarian such that back in December when I’d tell him summer is my favorite season and he’d retort, “I like winter.”–is even stating the obvious, “I hate winter! I want summer back!” That brief taste of bare feet in the backyard was enough to do us in. Come at me, spring!!
