28 June 2011

A few pictures

Hi:  a few pics:

Iain and I making fused glass projects last week....next week we get them back!


Here's Iain on his last day of 2nd grade with Mrs. Ross:

Iain and Ria

Ria on Adventure day a few months ago:

Ria at her school last month, doing her favorite thing:

21 June 2011

It's here!

Ah....summer has arrived....EEK! 92 degrees!

I have to put Ria to bed with her anti-hot-water-bottle, a.k.a. a huge ice pack wrapped in a towel and a pillowcase, in order for her to fall asleep in her hot room. She looks so cute desperately clutching her ice pack!

05 June 2011

NZ family is home

Our NZ family have moved back home!

WOOT!

Welcome home, Julia et al.

WHERE IS MY SUMMER?!?!

I would just like to know where my summer is.

This is California, for Heaven's sake! Summer starts the 3rd week of May. It gets hot for a week in late April. We all turn off the heat expectantly. Then it goes cold again and most of us turn the heat back on for the 1st half of May. Then it goes hot.

But it's June. And it is NOT hot. The heat is still on and it cycles on every morning at 7 am. GRRR.

We have low to mid 60's (F). Eva in NH is having mid to upper 70's. Same for Mormor in RI. Morfar is upper 70's to 80's in Chicago. Us, we're stuck in April weather. RAIN even! We're not supposed to rain from mid April until October! It RAINED today!

Me.
Want.
Summer.

All is well. If busy. The "year of Ria" is just a few months from being over. You don't know about "the year of Ria", because it is a busy year with no time for anything but the Ria saga (she is well, just busy), certainly no time to update the blog. The year of Ria is over starting August 25. You'll get 2 years of update at that time. Then comes the "year of Mona". That involves napping, reading, massages, going to the gym, and digging out of a lot of piles of paper.

Wish us warmth.