Like most women, I carry my life in my bag. The whole thing.
There's a good reason for this: I have to physically tote anything I want to put on or in my body along with me when I leave the house, because guess what's not happening in my life? Things like planning for snacks or putting on a face of make-up. I mean, I love the idea of sitting down and lingering over coffee and the newspaper...it's just not even in the realm of possibility lately, not when there are two people who need cereal (three kinds, all mixed together in highly specific proportions) and tooth-brushing and dressing and toy-locating and et cetera et cetera.
So I take it all with me. Makeup, snacks, jewelry, toys, the works. It's the only way.
Spook Town
OK, so I spent the past three years living one town over from Sleepy Hollow - a.k.a. Washington Irving's town, a.k.a. where the Haunted Horseman lives, a.k.a. Halloween Central. They really know how to do the Halloween thing over there, so I was expecting this year to be a little bit of a downer, spectacle-wise.
Ahhh...no.
I have never in my life seen a town get into Halloween the way that the town we went to for trick-or-treating (Los Gatos, where our friends live) does. There were light shows. Some kind of nuclear power reactor display with steam and alarms. Costumed locals performing a fully-staged Thriller dance. A Britney Spears I'm a Slave for You snake that licked me (thereby eliciting from me exactly the reaction you'd expect, which was panic).
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Blue jean babies. (My favorites for little girls are these and these; favorites for little boys are these.)
I just discovered this pillows-and-throws brand - I stumbled across it at a store in Burlingame - and aaaaaaaaaahhhh I love it. And the prices are really good, especially for pieces that feel this luxe. (This blanket and this pillow are my personal faves.)
Friendsgiving On The Way
Ohio | 2013
If you've been reading here for awhile, you know that for the past few years, we've road-tripped to Ohio to spend Thanksgiving with Kendrick's extended family. It's a trip that we really love - it has historically included things like seat dancing, Quaker Steak 'n' Lube wings, stops into the Cracker Barrel gift shop, and sometimes a pregnancy announcement - but this year that trip is obviously not in the cards. All the stuff that we've "traditionally" done around the holiday season is going to be a little different now (we've decided, for example, to have my parents come out to stay with us before Christmas and then fly to see Kendrick's family right afterwards), and I guess that's a little sad...but it's also going to be fun, figuring out what our new traditions are in this new life we've landed in.
Anyway, for this Thanksgiving we're doing something we've never done before: staying at our place and hosting a few East Coast friends who are driving up from LA. Our own kind of little displaced-New-Yorkers-gone-Californian party.
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