No NJ?

snow your love

Taken at Lake Montebello

quacky holidays!

Taken at Lake Montebello

blissed. blessed.

veggie rice sandcastle for the kiddo

MOM, no pictures NOW!

try try again

so I started the month of November with the valiant intention of participating in Blogher.com's NaBloPoMo or National Blog Posting Month. it's a challenge to post content to your blog once a day for 30 days.

I really had the most sincere intentions.

then about a week into the challenge the hubby, kiddo and I up and rapidly moved BACK from new jersey to maryland (in case you missed it, we'd just moved to new jersey in july). it was a massive undertaking with just daddyluv and I, and was done hastily since our finances had reached the 'point-of-MUST-return'. so blogging fell by the wayside.

and yes, I could've written about the experience as I was going thru it, the exhaustion, the stress, the cost, yadda yadda yadda. but honestly I just didn't wanna.

it sucked. it depressed me and I cried a lot. I got sick, hell all three of us got sick and we're just feeling fully well again. I relied on daddyluv to keep us financially and, more importantly, emotionally stable because I simply couldn't manage either. I wish I had it in me to have documented the experience but right now just remembering the experience is hard enough, I'm not in the mood to solidify it in writing.

it sucked.

but it's done, that part at least, and now we've been welcomed into the home of family. we're safe, we're comfortable, we're healthy, we're together and we're good. very, very good. so I am in the mood to start again. start the whole 'blog post a day' business again, that is.

so for (at least) the next 30 days I'll share something with all those who care to look. either photos, music, information or inspiration, occasionally I might even write something! :) I'm just gonna share!

and this time if things go all wacky (and that could happen at any moment) I'll share a cat video from YouTube or a photo of babyluv or something. #FakeItTilYouMakeIt

glowing post Badu

period

a few months ago daddyluv and I were discussing the usefulness of teaching kids about dinosaurs. he was thinking that lots of kids go through the whole 'dinosaurs are awesome' phase but only a handful become archeologists or paleontologists. so what's the real benefit?

I told him I see a couple benefits like the reading benefits of getting kids to enjoy learning words like tyrannosaur and pterodactyl or the ability to teach a child that things die but they become part of the earth and are never really gone.

or it's for the pure geeky delight of having my 3 1/2 year old say to me 'mama, you see that green dinosaur? he is from the Jurassic time period. there is also a Cretaceous time period. but mama, what time period do we live in?'

do you have any idea how adorable those words sound in a preschoolers 'scooby doo' accent?! #NerdsUnite

by the way, we live in the Quaternary Period, it began 2.6 million years ago. I looked it up.

my feet make me happy

babyjive

we got to spend a few hours with my dad (known to babyluv as PappaDoc) and his family yesterday which was wonderful! piles of good food, good drinks, good talks and good laughs.

so at the end of the night, after dozens of little talks and hundreds of giant hugs, what kernel of wisdom does my father, the great educator, world traveler, builder of institutions of higher learning pass on to his grandson?

PappaDoc: (to babyluv) hey!! you know why I love you!? cuz you are my--
babyluv: (shouts) MAIN MAN!

both in their best jive speak. thanks dad.

#JiveTurkey #WisdomOfTheAges

puppy pillow