Weekend Peek

Sometimes you just need to get in your car and drive. If you are lucky you end up at a local peach farm where they make the most delicious peach ice cream. And because it has been one of those weeks, you eat it at 9:30 in the morning. You might even be lucky to get to take along a companion who happily agrees when he hears ICE CREAM FOR BREAKFAST. Of course it made the others jealous they had other things to do, but you bring back a box of fresh peaches to lessen the sting.

The next day you decide life is too short to miss out on spontaneous outings, so you load everyone up and take them down to see a man walking tall, waiting for a train, and awakening from the earth. You ooh and ahh at the local creativity and admire the genius.

You even might see a dinosaur and robot on the telly.

The Big Easy

One of the days we were in town we hopped on the streetcar to head downtown to the quarter. The first year we lived in New Orleans we were sans car, so part of our day was spent riding the streetcar. We rode it everywhere, including school, Banana Republic, and my weird temp jobs. Although we loved the experience- Mardi Gras parades were HIGHLY inconvenient (the streetcar stopped running at 5pm so if you missed it, you were in for a LONG walk), grocery shopping was a joke (luckily we had a small grocery near our house) and once Adam started rotations we HAD to have a car.

As we rode the streetcar down with our kids and pointed out all of our favorite haunts like our old 1, 2, and 3 apartments (we moved a lot while we lived there), Lee Circle, The D-Day Museum, the church on St. Charles, etc.. it brought back lovely memories and even though it could be a hassle, I miss those rides.

A little grouchy on the streetcar ride, but she cheered up

Ted loved the ride and so did Buzz.

Ted loves beignets.

Oh so delicious!

12x2 Project: January 2010

loved. loved. loved this project. i'm can't wait for next month.

1. Ted organizing his rhinos and hippos

2. Lulu walking home from school

3. Remnants of the kids invading my sleep

4. Gym

5. Ted napping while I ran errands

6. Dinner

7. My "To Do" list. How often is "mail gun" at the top of your list?

8. Making Rebecca's famous chocolate chip cookies

9. Lulu doodling

10. Ted and his painted toes

11. Lulu showing off her taped fingers after performing her rendition of Beyonce's Single Ladies

12. Playing at the park

The World Needs:

Less of the Gosselin's airing it out in People Magazine & more of Ted independently helping me feed the cat. (sorry about the blurry photo)