from the week

i love the crap out of this kid. 

cookie monster in our bed at the end of the day makes me feel warm and fuzzy

lola cat

our fiddle leaf fig from ikea

i thought it was wednesday every day this week. this might be why the week seemed to fly by. also, it's almost june? we're just about half way through the year. so far, so good. 2013 has been good to me. like, really, really good to me.  

i'll be posting a photo a day during our trip next week in a tiny effort to disconnect. i hope you have a wonderfully long weekend full of bbq's and adventures.

packing up and shipping out

the best donuts i have ever had in my life.
at duck donuts in the outer banks.

this weekend we will journey on a 250 mile car ride through memorial day traffic/hell to the outer banks in north carolina. that being said it sounds like i am not looking forward to our trip, but i am totally out of control pumped. i've already packed our bags in my mind. now i just need to get around to actually packing them. here are a few things on my list. . . 

1. my canon rebel t4i that chris and aurora gave me for mother's day. i want to capture every moment and make a little movie of our trip. 

2. these overalls. they're super light weight and will be great to throw on over mah babe suit.

3. trickling springs whole milk for aurora. we love that their organic milk is pasteurized at a low temperature. when milk is pasteurized at a high temperature it kills the good/beneficial bacterias and can break down the vitamins and minerals in the milk. so basically aurora is getting all the goods. suddenly i feel like a milk snob. 

4. my ability to fly by the seat of my pants. cannot forget that. traveling with a little one can be ridiculous. i just need to remember that if i'm not stressed chances are she'll follow my lead. and if all else fails, i bought a whole mess of crayons, coloring books, and stickers that will surely entertain. 

perfection

painting by melissa staiger

this nursery is bad ass. it's got great light, beautiful art, and it belongs to the sweetest baby boy. we've got major nursery envy over here.

chris/week five

a month or so ago i was walking aurora around the block while chris was in a record store. an older woman approached me and said "the sun is in your baby's eyes, she looks very uncomforatble. what are you gonna do about it?" she said all of this very loud. loud enough that people stopped and stared. i was enraged, but managed to keep my cool. i would like to give this woman the benefit of the doubt, that she was trying to be helpful in some way, but i cannot. the tone and manner in her delivery enraged me. what gave her the right to talk to a complete stranger like that. with that being said i'm positive she was just talking to talk/hear the sound of her own voice.

since then chris and i have had a few other crazy encounters with the general public. so we've been talking quite a bit about human behavior. mainly along the lines of how are we going to instill values, morals, and manners into aurora. 

during one of our discussions regarding the above i asked chris the following question.

what is the best and what is the worst quality people possess? 

answer: "best quality - compassion. with compassion comes understanding. we could all use a lot more of both.

worst quality - false sense of entitlement. it seems that more and more people feel they deserve something for doing next to nothing, if nothing at all. i'm not sure where it comes from, but it needs to disappear. quickly."