Origami Mobile

Hi friends! While on our desolate and heart-warming Vermont Vacation this summer, my college best friend Lauren came to the woods to hang out with me! Lauren is an art teacher in the Hudson Valley, NY, and brought Origami papers to host "arts and crafts" with me. We folded fancy papers into dolls...and the dolls became a mobile for Justine's Baby Girl, whose shower we were attending that weekend in Maine!

I dug through the previous home-owner's wood collection for the hanger, we cut up an iridescent, lavender, hippy-dippie skirt for dangling branches, and finally sewed on lime-yellow faceted beads.

FUN time! I LOVE arts and crafts...and to know that our friend's new baby girl (due in November) would set her eyes on this project made us happy.

I'll post pictures of Justine opening this whimsical homemade mobile at her alfresco baby shower next....

Is Vermont in America??..a CA perspective!

Hi friends!!

I have been saying to Kim the last few vacation days, "Aren't we in America??" I guess we are...we are just rural!

Monday, the internet guy came out to our house and informed us that there is no room on the satellite for our little connection/house. We aren't getting internet at home right now. We do pass DSL Fairpoint trucks on famously scenic route 100....the proof that infact DSL interenet will be made available to us soon...we won't be able to move here for our experimental 1 year with no web access...this is how Kim would run her SD, CA business from the woods!

While that guy was on our roof, we lost home phone/land line. Kim was on the phone with the satellite people, and the phone went dead. It always comes back, though!

We have no cell phone reception, we've chosen not to pay for voicemail service, and the power went out all last night. We DID catch Top Chef on Bravo last night...but right after it ended, an error message interrupted the screen reading, "Satellite loss due to rain and cloud coverage,"....

We are REMOVED!! However, we are having a restful, fabulous time! Apparently, after some desolate reflection, I needed rest from the dizzy spin I do in SD. And we all know Kim needed rest from a haunting EDD audit this last year and a changing business.

WE visited a Wells College friend of mine yesterday in Plymouth, VT...ten minutes outside Woodstock. Anneke's historical family home is a 200-something year old farmhouse, with authentic basement mud floors and low ceilings! It was so interesting to be inside a real old American house.

I'll post pictures of Anneke. Our meet up was inspired by our sons' need for a playdate...they're both two year old toddlers... Collin even taught my Hud how to say "Mine-s", and his dad, Chris, a professional painter taught Hud how to paint!

I'm in Waitsfield, VT right now at a cafe, Kim walking Hud around before we get groceries and host Angela and Jason for the weekend. We're making blueberry pies with all the picking berries we collected yesterday! And, if the sun comes out again, we'll lay out on our wood deck and then walk the creek! Till the next wifi!

Our little house in Vermont...and moving there!?

Hi friends! You're never going to believe it?? Although, after some reflection it makes perfect sense that our little family would want to spend all FOUR SEASONS in our other home on the other side of the country, it does seem CRAZY! We are considering moving for one year to Vermont...the Green Mountain Forest, to be exact. (Our little yellow house is an additional blog attached to this blog, and I'll be posting more pictures and details there...)

I guess after not getting pregnant, Kim and I fell into fantasizing about some other new adventure...so we're thinking about (and I'm already casually planning...like; investigating preschools, selling cars, posting our SD home for rent), moving Spring of 2011...and remaining for ONE YEAR in Granville, Vermont, aka, desolation!

We're discussing ways in which we'll succeed there, like making sure I get around people, perhaps taking a part-time job with super earthy cool bohemians, maybe even selling my really Californian jewelry at their farmer's markets?

We've imagined Kim buying Ultrasound equipment and casually scanning for Vermont doctors and facilities. We feel like two teenagers planning to sneak out at night! Do we really get to do this?

We're scared as hell, but the thrill of a new adventure is appealing! Hudson is 2 and 1/2, will be 3 and 1/2 upon moving....he's our really cool third roomate, and I'm drawn to the idea of counting on each other to survive...which is the exact sentiment that lends itself to the notion that together we're planning a thrilling escape.

I'll write more later about our FEARS...but Hudson just pooped and I already gave him five minutes on the clock without me bugging him to change his diaper!