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Weekend @ Home

11 Oct 2010

Lots of unimportant pictures to post…


Oscar’s Ghosts plus one more happy ghost.


Fall colors – a morning of snuggles and syrup


Lucy helped open some of Molly and Greg’s wedding presents. (center)


Watching the Giants (Torture) beat the Braves (Barely).

Chief’s Newest Photography Show

11 Oct 2010

Thursday evening we went to the opening of my dad’s new Nudes show. Everything looked terrific, and the best thing about it is that it’s at his print lab, where a lot of other photographers go. So it’s really cool for him to be accepted by the ‘club’. All of his networking people are seeing his work! He even sold a large vintage print while we were there. Nice work.

Oscar took a lot of these, as you might guess.

The New Restoration Hardware

10 Oct 2010

Girl’s recon trip last Thursday.
Had to check out Resto’s new digs at 188 Henry Adams Street in the old Ed Hardy Antiques Showroom. (Not like I was a regular there – I think I went once with Harriet & Cecca in high school.) The place is making waves because it is a Chain store, and open to the public as opposed to The Trade. Heavens. Not sure which is worse. Read a good article if you’re interested.

It was soooo lovely. Madie, Kiera and I all agreed, the prices are so stratospheric, we might as well have been in a museum. (Full of faux antiques.) Oddly, the goods were so out of our budget that we weren’t even pining over anything. Or doing the number crunching in our heads. So it was a great little trip with a quick bite at an outdoor table in the warm sunshine.

I wish I had taken a photo of the polished cement floors there – that was probably my favorite. (I didn’t like their crunchy pea gravel outside – it looked fine but what a mess – I’d never choose it for myself.) Here, for fun, are some of the things we liked a lot – and a ridiculous price example for the thing I found for Lucy:

And here are the quick snaps I did take. :)

Kindergarten Update

08 Oct 2010

We got a schedule this week! I was just thinking how nice it would be to have one, and then one came home in the back pack! I usually ask Oscar what he did each day when we’re driving home, or at dinner. Now that I have the schedule I can prompt him a little.

Some of the reports are probably only interesting to parents, but here are some examples just in case.

  • “Jacob is getting better, but Robbie is still really bad. He still does that Roaring thing and gets in trouble..  And he still tells Jacob to get Ashley. So now he got Ariel and Jacob in trouble.” {FYI, Robbie is an adorable little blond headed sweetie pie that stands in front of O. at the morning bell.}
  • “Math is numbers. From Italian we know how to count from Uno to Dieci.  Okay it goes like this: “Uno, due, tre, quattro, cinque, sei, sette, otto, nove, dieci. That’s it.”
  • “So PE. We have new games, and some games we’ve played before. My favorite one is Monkey in the Coconut Tree.”
  • “We don’t have very much Free Choice. It matters if we’re being good, we can have it, and if we’re being bad we can’t have it.”
  • “So Journal. I don’t usually get to do that because I have work to finish. Most people have to finish their work during journal time. The work we’re finishing is from some other day. Like if we’re doing a connect the dot, and we didn’t get to finish coloring it.”
  • “Cafeteria is too loud.”
  • “The last thing I want to tell you about is Recess.  Today, at the last recess, I was looking around for children who were playing violence and doing bad things. I’m helping my teacher see people who are doing things that get them in trouble. I’m trying to help Ruth so no one gets hurt from the violence. {How much violence was there today??} Nothing. I mean none. But I was looking for it anyways. Because you never know when it will happen.”
  • {And did you sing about pancakes today?} “Uh huh. It goes like this….