Photo via Happenstance
It's Friday afternoon and we're headed to the beach
for the first time this Summer!
Have a wonderful weekend, wherever you may be :)
XOXO,
Leigh
Showing posts with label Weekends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weekends. Show all posts
Friday, July 15, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
happy sunday + welcome
Image via MFAMB
I hope you're having a great weekend and are looking forward to enjoying a lovely Sunday!
I want to say a special hello and welcome to the many new readers who have stopped by in the past week, since Marvelous Kiddo was featured on Blogs of Note.
Thank you so much for visiting -- I love your comments and emails!
Stay tuned for lots of goodies this coming week ;)
XOXO,
Leigh
Friday, July 1, 2011
happy long holiday weekend!
Image: American Music Festival – New York City Ballet: 1988, serigraph poster,
I hope you have a fun, safe, memorable weekend!
See you back here on Tuesday...
Friday, June 24, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
wow. thanks.
Oh my! I can't begin to tell you how much the response to my last post has moved me. It is so wonderful, exciting, powerful to get a sense of who is actually out there reading my blog, and I want you to know that every single comment and email that I receive is so very deeply appreciated. Thank you so much for reading, and thank you so much for saying hello! You guys are the BEST and I love you!!!
These are two of my favorite photos from the weekend. Above, Jackson and me, mugging for Photobooth while still in bed, early Saturday morning. Below, Walker onstage with Taro for the introductory speech on opening night of the Our Time pre-teen shows.
Friday, June 3, 2011
saying "hi" + a surprise...
In the month of May, 53,125 of you visited Marvelous Kiddo!Who are you? How old are you? Where do you live? What do you do?
Take a moment to introduce yourself or just say "hello".
Thanks for visiting.
Have a wonderful weekend!
XOXO, Leigh
PS: Be sure to check back in on Monday...I have a fun surprise and I can't wait to share ;)
Friday, May 20, 2011
words for your weekend
“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package, I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave’s a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that’s what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.”
--Joan Didion,
in a commencement address at the University of California, Riverside,
in 1975.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
May
Walker, 20 months old on May 1, running beneath the crabapple blossoms in Central Park.
Happy May, everyone!
Friday, April 22, 2011
Happy Weekend
I hope you're already enjoying a lovely weekend! Taro and the boys and I are headed downtown to hang out at an Our Time workshop all day, so we're looking forward to a lot of fun and friends. Later, we have plans to watch E.T. for the first time with Jackson (a movie that's kind of a great resurrection allegory in the spirit of Easter, if you think about it!) He's my little cinephile and really excited to see it, especially since we had this conversation outlining the plot:"Mom, what's an E.T.?"
"It stands for extraterrestrial."
"What's extraterrestrial?"
"An alien life form."
"What's an alien life form?"
"Well, some people think that with all the stars and planets and galaxies in the Universe, that there is the possibility that other creatures exist on other planets -- kind of like humans or animals -- but they're so far away we just haven't met them yet, or figured out how to communicate. This movie is a pretend, imaginative story about what might happen if a little alien creature came to Earth and became best friends with a human little boy."
"OH! YOU MEAN LIKE A PLAYDATE? COOL!!!"
In other news, here are some fun links:
Redbook asked me to contribute some of my tips for a lasting marriage! You can read what I had to say, here.
XOXO,
Leigh
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The Green Flea
Everyone's always talking about the Brooklyn Flea, but I'm rather partial to the Upper West Side's own Green Flea.
Besides, I can walk there ;)
Photos taken on my phone last Sunday.
Friday, April 8, 2011
three things for your weekend
1. Quote via this must-read blog.
2. Image from this guest post I wrote this week.
We have a busy, exciting weekend leading up to the Gala on Monday night! I'll see you back here on Tuesday or Wednesday. Ciao.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Weekend Link Love
Photo via Child of the Moon
I hope you have a wonder-full weekend!
Here are some links I loved this week:
Rad handmade jewelry (I just had to buy a ring and a pair of the earrings)
Aura had her baby! (She's gorgeous, and I LOVE her name)
XOXO, Leigh
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Weekendy Links
Photo via Rachel Swan Design
Some of my favorite pieces of the internet, found in recent days:
What were your favorite finds?
Friday, March 4, 2011
rainbows for your weekend
It seems like every image I've saved in the last week has been inspired by rainbows, so I thought I'd throw them all into a post and share! Enjoy the colorful goodness and have a wonderful weekend :)
XOXO, Leigh
PS: What are you up to? Today we're going to visit Jen and Steven at the Pulse Art Fair, tomorrow we're hanging out with friends, and on Sunday I'm joining Nancy to meet Ina May!!!
Images, top-bottom: Shrimiatreya on Flickr via Honestly...WTF, Zara pants via Style Essentials, Gabriel Dawe thread installations Design*Sponge, Isabella's party via Ohdeedoh, yarn gift wrapping from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts via Oh Happy Day, Rain Bow Tote by Ross Zietz via Swiss Miss.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Weekend Wellness
Oh, my. Posts have been light around here as the whole family fights what is hopefully the last nasty bug of the season. Poor Taro missed an entire week of work, which says a lot about how miserable he's been -- he never takes sick days :( The kiddos are recovering, but still hacking and dripping and generally looking wan. I have fared best, perhaps aided by sheer force of will not to succumb to the germs. Hopefully over the weekend we can all shake this thing and move forward with our newly buffered immune systems.
Meanwhile, I wanted to wish you a happy, healthy weekend! Be well.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Weekend Wonderful
Friday was shockingly, unbelievably warm here in NYC. After months of being cooped up inside the apartment while blizzards descend, I celebrated this first hint of (dare I say it?) Spring by taking the kiddos waaay down-and-across-town to East 14th Street to attend a toddler meeting of the La Leche League. I enjoyed communing with other breastfeeding moms while the boys made some new friends. In the months between my visits to La Leche League meetings I always forget how restorative and empowering and energizing it is to be in the same room with a bunch of moms who are committed to nursing their older babies and children. It just feels so nice to be able to laugh and question and share challenges in a safe, encouraging environment of like-minded mamas. It does the soul good.Afterwards, we headed to lunch at Angelica Kitchen where we devoured some delicious vegan vittles, followed by a quick pop into Stogo for desert, and then we were off to the playground at Tompkins Square Park, where it seemed that every single resident of the East Village had converged with their offspring to revel in the unseasonably balmy weather. The swings were in such demand that when we finally got our chance at one, we had to double up (see above photo)!
Once the guys were zonked, we took a stroll around the neighborhood. With two sleeping kids, I couldn't resist grabbing a snack at Momofuku Milk Bar. I figured a little splurge on one of their insanely decadent, salty-sweet Compost Cookies was somewhat justifiable after my super-healthy lunch ;) Of course, I had to ask for a sample of their French Toast soft serve ice cream while I was paying for the cookie, eeps!
By the time Walker was waking up from his luxurious nap in the Boba, it was time for Taro to be off work, so he came downtown and met all of us for dinner at Cafe Orlin, on Saint Mark's Place.
After our meal we took a circuitous route home, walking west through Washington Square Park and jumping on the C train to return to the UWS. Once home, everyone except for yours truly promptly passed out from blissful, NYC-induced exhaustion. I would've gone to sleep too, but someone has to blog about our adventures for posterity!
With such a fun start to the weekend, and other good times in store, I'm looking forward to the next couple of days.
What manner of fun things are YOU up to this weekend? I'd love to know.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Happy Weekend
Photo via The Colorful Living Project.
I am sooo glad it's Friday, friends! I have a fun night ahead of me, as I will be meeting up with a blog buddy for the first time -- the fabulous Raina from If the Lampshade Fits! I can't wait.
Sorry if my posting has been off its rhythm of late. This week has been a bit of a whirlwind for me -- I've been working on a new project that I'm excited to tell you about soon...stay tuned ;)
Meanwhile I've collected a few links that I think you'll enjoy:
Have a safe and lovely weekend!
Friday, January 21, 2011
Have a Healthy Weekend
I woke up in the wee hours this morning to the sudden cries of my (normally) solid-sleeping oldest child. He sat bolt upright, called for me, and then puked in the bed. Man, oh man. As a parent, there's nothing quite like navigating the treacherous waters of a child's sickness in the dead of night. It is disorienting and upsetting and exhausting and just downright sad for all parties involved.
Obviously it sucks for the kid who is sick, but it also sucks for the sibling who is fine but whose sleep is disrupted by the brouhaha, and it sucks for the folks on cleanup/health-vigil-duty (AKA, mom and dad).
But the weird thing is, as a parent you just deal. Before having kids, I don't think I would have had it in me to awake from deep sleep suddenly and perform tasks of organization and grace involving the swift and thorough cleanup of bodily fluids, all while comforting multiple toddlers. Neither did Taro. But now, we're like the a-team. We rock it out with stomachs of iron.
So we made it through the night, and J felt better in the morning, and W caught up on his rest and has thus far remained healthy, and after Taro left for work grandma came over, and we spent the day watching it snow, and doing the laundry, and playing games, and resting, and breastfeeding, and reading, and watching movies.
As night falls again, everyone seems to be on the rebound and it was actually a pretty magical day.
Instead of a link list, I'm going to leave you with two of the highlights of our day. We plowed through this amazing book that we recently brought home from the library:
And we watched this breathtakingly beautiful, sweet film on Netflix instant download:Both works are about bold-hearted, adventuring children. You will love them, I know.
I hope you have a healthy and wonderful weekend with a bit of magic on the side. XOXO.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Weekend Wonderful
I hope you have a magical weekend. I have some links for you here that I have to say are the most fun, inspiring, heartwarming, and downright awesome ones in a while. Enjoy!
What made you smile or laugh or think or dream this week?
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