Category Archives: Clarendon

Oscar’s Field Trip to the Arboretum

19 Apr 2013

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We went to the San Francisco Botanical Garden at the Strybing Arboretum in Golden Gate Park. I wasn’t sure of the official name so I looked it up. (Don’t confuse it with the other cool place to see flowers, the Conservatory of Flowers.)

I’ll spare you the history, location and other details – all are found in the above links.

I always ask about tulip trees when I can. This volunteer said they are all in the magnolia family.

It was a really beautiful day, and the kids enjoyed this easy and fun escape.

Auction Art and Otherwise

02 Mar 2013

I finished my school Group Art Project last weekend, so I had a calm week. A giant thank you to Cheap Peet’s Asst. Manager Benjamin, for framing our artwork so quickly! Now I’m looking forward to tonight’s spending spree (ahem, ‘school auction’). It’s for a good cause: our childs’s public school education. Wanna buy a raffle ticket? Just kidding.

This is the collage I made, that will be up for auction (click to see it larger). Below are snapshots of the process, and a description:

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Busy Mommy

21 Feb 2013

I realize I have not been blogging lately.
Is this the time I always wondered about, when I would lose interest?

I don’t think I’ve lost interest entirely.

Instagram is a big contributing factor. I bet if there was no Instagram, I’d be posting more pics here.

After my big Clarendon art project is wrapped up and shipped off, I hope to be free of commitments to others, and able to focus on more selfish endeavors..

Here’s the over due hot mess that I’m sitting next to.
Pray for me that I can throw it together in the final minutes!

xoxo

Carnival Costumes

27 Oct 2012

Oscar wanted something festive that wasn’t his REAL costume that he will wear on Halloween (Wednesday).
Lucy just wanted to get her hands on the grass skirt and bikini top that I was trying to hold back.
SO today they had a little fun with these… And I snapped these shots as we were headed out the door.

– “HULA PRINCESS” –

– “GIRL” –

Sources: Everyone wanted to know where I got such a great grass skirt. You’d never guess. And Oscar is wearing an unknown label hand-me-down dress from Clarice. It’s a size 5, and now it will go back into the storage bin of clothes that are waiting for Lucy.

One More Birthday Event For Oscar

28 Sep 2012

In Oscar’s class, they celebrate all the birthdays for the month on the last Friday.

I baked some XL chocolate chip cookies. Kiera hooked me up with the deluxe packaging (thanks!!). I used some old green paper that I had left over from Christmas cards three years ago. I thought it struck a nice balance between snazzy and homespun. Mark said: “Dude, they’re 2nd graders. They won’t care”

That’s Oscar’s teacher Prudence, and Natalie. Her birthday was Sept. 6th.
(I was kicking myself that I didn’t figure things out… I should have written Happy Birthday Oscar & Natalie! Oh well, mental note for next year.)

The class sings Happy Birthday 3 times.

The first one is in English, the second in Italian, the third is “silly”. You can click this to see it larger.

Oscar probably enjoyed passing out the cookies even more than eating them.

See all those girls on the left? I Love them. I should have tried for a better pic of them, but time was flying, and I’m lucky to have got what I got!