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” ’cause you told me that I would find a hole / within the fragile substance of my soul / And I have filled this void with things unreal / and all the while my character it steals / Darkness is a harsh term don’t you think? / And yet it dominates the things I see”

—Mumford & Sons

“You’re wearing THAT? That’s, like, your pajamas…”

—Anna, 3/10/12, to Stephie…what a little fashionista

Anna, to me: “Do you EVER get your nails done?” Mason, off in his own made-up spaceworld: “Sometimes there are meteors, so watch out guys!” Me: “Well, yeah, like for weddings and stuff…” Anna: “Like, for wedding showers?” Mason: “Oh yeah, there are meteor showers too, guys!”

—3/11/12…hahahahaha!

Me: “What’s the best thing about being 5?” Anna: “I guess, drawing on the computer.” Anna: “What’s the best thing about being 30?” Me: “ummmmm……”

—3/10/12…the same thing? I eventually told her “being able to do whatever I want” ha ha.

“To touch something real / will help your wounds heal / like the sun on your face / the dreams of starry nights // And we are homeward bound / And I / I want this more than life / I want this more than life / I want this more than life / I want this more than life”

—Whitley

2012…still The Year!

Great news for all, all around. May it continue for the next many many months!

Anyway. Hello readers, I see from my stats page that you are hungry for new content (rather, “content”, considering the contents of this blog), and you have had none for about a week. So! Here you go. We are back from San Francisco. It was a magical, smashingly wonderful time full of good weather, lots of playing, the making of a Person of the Week poster for a certain Kindergartener, tons of candy and/or caffeination, hilarious kid quotes, lots of running and shouting, excellent food, and, of course, dear family.

FOOD HIGHLIGHTS include: Blue Bottle coffee (I blame food blogs…), the most AMAZING EGG SANDWICH *EVER* (“should we go back and get another?” -Jeff), LOTS of candy (thanks Stephie!), eating on Mt. Tam again (last time I did this was August 2001!) out on the deck of that hotel, so great, and a fancy night out at The Slanted Door, AND much more I am sure. Quite nice.

KID HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: Working on Anna’s Person of the Week poster, Mason dressing as a fireman (“I want to put on my firesuit!”), Mason’s terribleness/adorableness at playing hide and seek (“guys where are you??”/”guys I’m in here!!” LOL!!) AND the hand-slap game (just puts his hands on top of yours nicely; Anna is FIERCE!), playing “mother and baby” and Mason wanting to be the Mom…ha, Anna having a fake English accent and being a Queen in Mother and Baby, playing with the gas station and Jeff pretending to be Yoda the gas station owner (ha!!), getting nails done with Anna and playing I Spy while we sat there, and runningrunningrunning on Tiburon, Mason burying me in trucks and using the ‘remote control’ to ‘attack’ Jeff, joining in on a marine class randomly out on Crissy Field, and YELLING and RUNNING like crazy around the house. Also Mason’s obsession w/ getting the toy soldiers (“when I get my toy soldiers”) and playing with them. Also Mason putting away the chairs in the table when he hid under them (such a neat freak, and only 2…). Also Mason/Anna on scooters “Captain Anna!” hmmmmmm….. Hilarious/adorable/of course. Love them like crazy. I never knew why my aunts were so darn nice to me until I had a great little niece and nephew.

We also had a fun night out w/ Stephie/Mike on Saturday which was great. We are all basically ‘oldest’ children which can be good or bad. It was good/fun on Saturday!

We also love SF! Just not the pretentiousness. But, so gorgeous. Smelled SO AMAZING and springlike to boot!

I ALSO loved traveling with Jeff. SO HAPPY he came with!! He was a HUGE hit with the kids. “Uncle Jeff! Uncle Uncle Uncle! Watch me Uncle Jeff! Uncle Jeff, watch me!” HA!

I ALSO loved having yesterday off to sleep/catch up after the redeye with Jeff. Lazy and lovely.

I ALSO love Jeff! Duh.

Nowwwww I have 29307509467543 things to catch up on, Jenny’s wedding to plot (24 to-dos in my Todo app and counting…), a bracket to fill out, a last parks class and then a first Parks meet to help coach, and amazing weather to enjoy so I need to jet. BUT just wanted to get something out there. Happy Tuesday the 13th!