The Week in Moments: Spring Break

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Last week the kids were off for Spring Break. We spent half the week at home and half the week at my parents' house in Encinitas. (And my Nana's Del Mar garden wonderland. Linking to all posts by/about Nana in three... two... one, zero, etchere's a guest post Nana wrote once ...) Last Sunday, we surprised the kids with a bounce house just because and it was one of THE greatest ideas I have ever had in my life. (We are going to make this "surprise! there's a bounce house in the front yard!" a thing in our house, we've decided. Because this is the stuff memories are made of and sometimes, you just have to jump jump for your love, jump in...)

Other week highlights include watching butterflies mate (heyyaaaa!) at The Natural History Museum/forgetting to bring a change of clothes/forgetting that there was a water feature/driving home with naked children, visiting Quail Gardens San Diego Botanic Gardens and forgetting ONCE AGAIN to bring a change of clothes, beach days, finding a perfectly symmetrical heart-shaped kelp float that seems to be a genetic anomaly and felt like one of those magical heart-shaped signs... of what, I don't know, but even Fable agreed.

"This is an amazing sign, Mama!" she said.

"Right!?? I was thinking the same thing!"

All these years of being my daughter are starting to rub off on her. Also, Yoga. (Fable is taking Yoga after school and it has changed her life. And mine because I was never a Yoga person but now that Fable is so into it, I have become her Yoga student and am learning all sorts of amazing things about mindful eating and peaceful warrior...ness.)

Namaste.

As for Archer, I bought him Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on Tuesday and by Thursday morning he was on book two.

He had no intention of reading them because everyone else is reading them and then, last night he turned to Hal and said, "These are the greatest books of all time."

My parents have a pool and kindly heated it for the kids so they could swim. Bo is literally diving off the sides into the deep end and giving us all a heart attack even though she has her trusty Puddle Jumper floatation device strapped to her everywhere. Meanwhile, Revi refuses to go anywhere near the pool but will happily float around in her fishy raft in the jacuzzi, so long as someone is very very close to her.

We managed to survive our first candy-free Easter. Mostly everyone ate eggs and my Nana's French Toast. And bacon much to my chagrin. Bo called Bacon "meat chips" and asked for "ten more, please" after trying one when I wasn't looking.

And then I sobbed in the corner and my Nana was like, "but they come from happy pigs! Sustainably raised!"

"MEAT CHIPS, MAMA! TRY IT!"

Anyway. We had a really lovely week. Lots of adventures and sandy scalps, skipped naps and skinned knees.

These photos were taken from the other side of this post. Totally worth the unpleasant moments because, man, is there ever some beauty up in this piece. Post-it notes, abound.
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