Herfst Quickies, and a First Place-ish Kind of Day

My Sunday included some pretty terrific things, which were welcome guests after a gray and taxing week.

1. Beginning: I slept until 9.00 while baby daddy folded the laundry, cleaned the kitchen, and wrangled the kids.

2. Middle: I was totally tickled and honored to win first place in the Expatica I Am Not a Tourist blog competition, the spoils of which included meeting some fine new peeps and a free spot in one of the Amsterdam Writing Workshops.

3. End of the Middle: I (nearly) finished a meal on a cafe terrace, in between hail storms, while both kids snoozed in the buggy. At the same time. This kind of thing just doesn't happen very often. Much obliged, little people.

4. End: Right before carrying big bunny to bed, the two of us crafted chestnut critters together. Well, kind of. He sorted googly eyes and dictated where the glue and feathers went. Photos to come; in the meantime you can visit our goofy darlings from last year here.

5. End of the End: A newly de-bearded mustached guy brought me a late dinner in bed.

Thank you, day.

Quickies: Barcelona

I'm taking a break from scaling Mt. Laundrypile, which has been slowly accumulating and procreating in every corner of our house, to give you some more España, this time the margin notes to our brief adventure in Barcelona. I like thinking of iPhone photos that way: complementary, not entirely necessary, but as a lens to better understand a broader experience.

Quickies

This one's kid-heavy, people. Grandparents and the child-crazed, rejoice. The rest of you may want to sit this one out. 

I basically have just been doing the following things, and only the following things for the past month: 

1. trying to shower twice per week

2. taking pictures of mostly my kids, then getting SUPER EMOTIONAL that I'm not taking nearly enough. (Still playing the hormone-blame-game.)

3. neglecting doing dishes

4. trying to pull off sweatpants with oxfords and a leather biker jacket, amongst other sartorial abominations. 

So, I guess you might want to stick around, at least to make fun. And in case you missed any recent installments of Quickies, you can catch up here.

xxx+o,

Jess

Quickies, Through Time and Space: The Forgettables

So, I guess this is kind of a series now. I'll go with it, and officially replace my Sunday Snippets posts with Quickies ones. These "in-between" moments are so sweet and capture my days so perfectly that I feel the need to share some of them, not just the ones I've perfectly focused on and framed.

Quickies, Through Time and Space: Berlin

Following my recent turn towards a more mobile lifestyle, here are some quickly-snagged moments from our brief exploration of Berlin. If my more in-focus look at this splendidly quirky city wasn't enough to make you go airfare-hunting, I hope these do. Everyone, look BERLIN-WARD! 

Go. You'll love it. Pinky swear. 

xxx+o,

Jess

Quickies, Through Time and Space: Bazouges-sur-le-Loir

Right up until the very moment I lifted my iPhone out of its slim little package, I was anti-smartphone. Completely. Once, in 2009, I bought a Blackberry and returned it the same day; the constant access to the Interwebs was too much for me to handle. I liked being unavailable sometimes. I liked that online was a place I could get to from a computer, and nowhere else.

Sunday Snippets (on Tuesday): The Week, in Retrospect

Sunday Snippets: the week, in retrospect

A Game of Catch(up): The Last Three Months, in Retrospect

Although recent history says I failed through and through at taking my lens cap off every day for the normally weekly Sunday Snippets posts, my camera wasn't entirely idle. Here's a peep at some of the sights that've been following me around for the past three months...

xxx,

j

Overdue Sunday Snippets

I give much credit to any blogger who produces consistent, quality, proofread material, but I cast a fair bit of doubt as to said blogger's humanness if she's pregnant and/or with a new baby. Seriously. You who fall into this category are humanoid cylons, right? Totes sorry for outing you.

Sunday Snippets: the week, in retrospect

Sunday Snippets: the week, in retrospect

Sunday Snippets: the week, in retrospect

Sunday Snippets: the week, in retrospect

Sunday Snippets: the week, in retrospect

Sunday Snippets: the week, in retrospect

Sunday Snippets: the week, in retrospect

My faithful and weekly series, Sunday Snippets, has been defunct for three months. I was so exhausted by our travels and by recent developments (pun intended) that some days, I didn't even touch my camera, which automatically derailed Sunday Snippets; it relies on me taking a photo of something, anything, every single day. 

Once I got out of the habit of uncapping my lens daily, it was difficult to automatically do. Until this week, for some reason. Normally the fun of this series is that there's no text, only one image from each day. 

Thus, I'll shut up now.

xxx,

j

Sunday snippets: the week, in retrospect

Sunday snippets: the week, in retrospect

Sunday snippets: the week, in retrospect