And playing with our favorite toys and Allure magazines.

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In today’s Subscriber Segment I answer some of the questions, comments and emails I’ve received in recent weeks, talking motorcycles, wardrobe malfunctions, and Lady Gaga.

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When we travel to Canada we usually stay right in Moncton (New Brunswick), but this time we stayed with my aunt in Riverside, which is only about an hour outside of town but feels like just about the middle of nowhere.

It’s also one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been to.

New cousins getting to meet for the very first time.

My cousin’s daughter is excellent at sharing, as evidenced by the fact that she deposited every single toy in the house directly into my son’s lap within five minutes of his arrival.

It was all very exciting…and apparently more than a little exhausting.

The bracelet stack I wore all weekend long (L to R: Courtesan Studio red stretch bracelet, chloe + isabel silver bangles, Sisco Berluti stack bracelet).

Thrift stores are a treasure trove of very awesome, sorta retro, incredibly inexpensive toys – that thing above plays “rock ‘n’ roll” and “classical” versions of Old MacDonald (in quotations because…well…they’re fairly loose interpretations of those particular genres) and is my son’s New Favorite Thing. (Just remember to clean thrifted toys well before taking them home and double-triple check that there are no small and/or broken parts that could prove dangerous.)

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Obsessed.

They’re soft and light, come in great colors, are cozy enough for indoors and more than cute enough for outdoors, and I cannot stop buying them for people, including my son.

Click here to check them out.

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AUNT JO’S WATERMELON SALAD (sorry for the sorta lame photo – I had a baby in one hand and an autofocus camera in the other.)

In a large bowl, toss together cubed fresh watermelon, halved Bocconcini mozzarella (little mozzarella balls; get the good-quality stuff that comes packed in water), a handful of chiffonaded mint (click here to learn how to chiffonade), and a sprinkling of good-quality sea salt.

Watermelon, Tomato & Basil Salad

Lemonade Spritzers garnished with watermelon wedges

Watermelon & Gin Iceblocks

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and so I picked up a couple of little souvenirs:

A wire magazine rack/log holder that I’ll be spray-panting gold and setting next to our Eames-style rocker (yes, there are probably more practical things to carry home from another country, but $1.99 for a little midcentury decor action is not something that I sneeze at)…

And a floaty pink dress (twenty bucks at the Canadian equivalent of TJ Maxx) to wear next Saturday to do whatever it is that we end up doing, and then again to Stephen and Dave’s wedding at the summer’s end.

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Went to town for lunch.

This is town.

This was lunch. (Bay of Fundy lobster roll, yum.)

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