Delilah was supposed to be a Peacock for Halloween. But she didn’t like her peacock outfit…she’s big on saying “I don’t like it” these days. I’m not convinced she fully understands the phrase. Then she conceeded that she would wear last year’s Tinkerbell costume which has taken up residence in her dress-up arsenal, so Miss Picky Pants is more comforable… Read more →
Category: Family
Show me that smile again…
It’s one of my clearest memories. I’m three years old and I’m on gurney at Children’s Hospital downtown — there are no photographs of this moment, so I know the memory is all mine — so I’m three years old, and the gurney has bars like a crib, to keep me from wiggling out. The doctors and nurses are… Read more →
REI, Beach Cabanas, and NOT Glamping.
Me and Dee – August 2010 So when REI and BlogHer offered me the opportunity to go on a mini REI shopping spree in preparation for our family’s beach camp-out at the end of the summer, I jumped at the chance. The closest one is in the town of my youth (where my parents still live) so you know I… Read more →
Wild Thing, Keep Your Hooker-y Paws off My Baseball Team.
You know it’s not far off from what Dodger Stadium might look like if the MASHEEN went and bought himself the beloved LA Doyers. {That is a fake link – Charlie Sheen is NOT encapsulating his blood in pill form for mass distribution – I mocked that little ditty up for April fools on Twitter, but see? I told you Bo.lt… Read more →
Mega-Swoon.
I guess we know what song they have to use as the Father/Daughter dance when Dee gets married one day. (Hopefully to whoever the EF she wants!) *Swoon* Read more →
PurgedayThursday: Summer in the Yard with a Toddler and Two Dogs
There it is. Our 200 square feet of backyard bliss. Scott put in that hammock as a Mother’s Day gift to me. He also built me a fountain. {Can anyone tell me what the hell I do with a Waterlily, because I know it’s not THAT.} He built a fence, and a wall, once the girl got tall… (I couldn’t… Read more →
Peanuts and Crackerjacks
This is SO what it’s about. Happy Father’s Day Scott. We love you. You rule the most. * * * And now, the worst video of the lamest wave at a baseball game probably ever. Read more →
Dark Days
The problem with June Gloom dragging on as long as it has is that I am a person who really needs sunshine all the time. Ultimately, it’s why I put up with the craziness of LA life rather than disappearing to the MPLS or the Colorado Mountains or Provo Utah or somewhere completely inexplicably random (not that I’ve thought about… Read more →
Purgeday Thursday: Out with the old, in with the new(ish)
You want to talk about a woman who knows how to get LA purging? That adorable {and remarkably collected} doyenne up there is a serious bad ass. Her name is Kristin Nelson and she runs this thing called LA KIDS CONSIGNMENT that started with a few Moms doing a clothes swap in her driveway has become such a massive hit… Read more →
Sandbox Digging Break
Scott’s transforming our tiny yard into Delilah’s wonderland. I’ll own up. These two are growing a bond I have to try hard not to be jealous of. Read more →