(*Unless you are a chorus girl from the 1930’s and are in the middle of rehearsing for a Broadway musical.)
I recently spent a Saturday in NYC – a place where I get an eye-full of of whatever is cool and trendy – I saw a lot of rompers on all body types. And I have to say that my conviction remains solidly in place – rompers were meant for babies and not us ladies… in public, anyway.
Okay, maybe poolside is an acceptable place to wear one of these jobs – yesterday I saw a lady in one and it made sense by the pool.
I don’t know where my fashion authority suddenly comes from?! Do you? I just feel what I feel and then decide to get bossy about it, I suppose. Perhaps Joan Rivers will read this and invite me to be on her show where she and her daughter make judgments about who looked good at the Oscars and who looked silly. Because, like Joan and Melissa**, I know what I am talking about! Can’t you just see me? I’d say, “WHAT was she thinking wearing a ROMPER to the Oscars?! I just want to wrap her up in a pastel baby’s blanket, tickle her under he chin and say coochie coo!”
(**Seriously, who decided to make them fashion gurus? It’s a little odd. On the other hand, I am TOTALLY QUALIFIED to boss people around and tell them what they can and can not wear!)
I have become a “lazy bones” in the blog department.
The thought of uploading pictures sends me into an emotional tail spin. Well, not really – I just thought it would be fun to sound dramatic.
Any-who – if you want to see something cool, from a person who, unlike myself, is a faithful blogger – go and check this out.
So you know where you are being directed it is two short videos of songs that my family performed at Chas and Sam’s wedding lunch.
What happy memories!
The boys sang a really fun song, which they dedicated to Chas and I think they come off looking pretty swell. AND my cute dad plays the ACCORDION! Not to be missed, my friends. (Accordion to me, you are the best, daddy o’mine!)
The girls sing a song that is very meaningful to Sam. I was just trying really hard NOT to cry (many tears were shed at the luncheon). The tears shed were”tears of joy”, but even tears of joy are not what you want to be experiencing when you are trying to SING OUT! I couldn’t even look at Sam for fear of springing a leak. At the end watch for Sara (Sam’s younger sister) wiping away her tears of joy with her trusty napkin. And I would like to explain why I bop my head around the whole time – I was DIRECTING everyone when to come in. That is what older sisters do. They feel the NEED to direct a group especially when that group is made up of mostly younger sibs. Lead, guide and stand beside, it is in the DNA of an older sister.
And if you need me to further sweeten this deal…it is in HD! That stands for “HIGH DEFINITION”, suckaz!
Don’t miss it.
Because who knows when I will reform from my lazy blogger ways.
Here is the latest and the last attempt at cramming the whole family into the slide show. I think I got at least one photo of every single person who was present at the reunion. Millie noticed all the new pictures, but then, she has watched it about 100 times. You might not spot the differences, but here it is, all the same.
Happy viewing and/or reminiscing, as the case may be.
If you are a regular visitor to this blog you will have noticed that I haven’t been writing much lately. My friend Jen contacted me last week to see if I was still alive. If only there was an “out of office reply” in such situations as these. Maybe for a blogger it could simply say, “Still here, just not feeling it.” I haven’t been feeling like posting. No reason. Just not feeling it.
I don’t think I am alone in this feeling, it happens to all of us who have blogs. Right? Sometimes the urge to blog leaves momentarily.
It is the summer holidays after all. And we ARE feeling that!
(thank you, Target dollar section – your sunglasses selection, though small, was just what our summer holiday needed)
And speaking of these lovely, long summer days I have been revisiting my slide show of our trip to England. Those were some good times! I miss that place and those people. I have just finished the final version of the slide show. One with a picture of every member of the family who was there. I don’t actually know if anyone cares…but I did it all the same. My children still feature more than the rest, but I am the mom who is putting the darn thing together and so it goes, suckaz!
Will post the final draft of that slide show soon.
Are what we are experiencing in the fair state of Utah.
Our days are packed with ’em.
Things like…
Sleeping under the stars with Grandma
Oh, this is such a treat!
Millie has been DYING to go camping or sleep in a tent in a sleeping bag in the great out doors for the last year. She’d spoken to Grandma about this before we arrived and as we were driving home from the airport she asked Grandma again, “When can we sleep outside?” And because Millie’s Grandma is Khaliel the very night we arrived her wish was GRANTED.
It was a full moon after all and Grandam felt that just couldn’t be missed.
Even Clara got in on the action.
We woke up to the sweetest mountain air and birds chirping and Aunt Tess (who’d pulled up her own mattress at 2:00 AM when she got home from work). Pure Magic!
In my opinion, the city of Provo hosts the worlds very BEST parade. It lasts about 3o minutes and is essentially two high school bands, a fire truck and bunch of kids dressed in red, white & blue riding their bikes and throwing candy at you.
Of course I got misty eyed when the band started to play, “This is my Country.” Nuff said.
We have also:
Fed the ducks
Swung on swings
Gone to the candy store
Had several bubble baths
Given exclusive concert performances
Eaten at fine food establishments
(the kind that sell “fry sauce” and are the perfect place to spell words with french fries and practice reading)
Gotten our hair cut
Been chased around the house by uncles, danced in the living room with aunts, played in the sprinkler, picked lettus from the garden with Grandpa for salads, visited with friends, played with cousins…
I love to shop with Millie. She thinks that everything I try on is wonderful.
“You look SO cute, Mommy!” is the only thing she ever says.
Nice, right?
So the other day, I bought something very much out of the ordinary – with her special guidance.
This here shirt.
Think “Good Will Hunting”, think the bar scene when he gets the girl’s number, and the Harvard prep doesn’t – but now imagine this dialogue only with a slight alteration.
Will -“Do you like CARROTS?”
Harvard Prep -“Huh?”
Will – “Do you like carrots?
HP – Yeah.
Will -How ’bout these carrots.”
Oh, if only they had cast MEEE instead of Minnie. I would have been amazing in my carrot shirt, I tell you!
I digress —
When I put my lovely carrot shirt on this morning, the one Millie really thought I should get, I discovered something really special…
you’ll never guess so I’ll just tell you what it was,
THIS
Attached to the tags was a little bag of carrot seeds with the instructions to “grow your own”.
And grow our own we shall!
Our plan is to grow a bunch of carrots for the new woodland creature who has decided to make our back yard his abode
Awe! a baby bunny!
We have MANY woodland creatures who have made burrows of their own in our back yard:
a HATEFUL ground hog and it’s GROWING family (NOT a fan) a dozen chipmunks (barely tolerable) and millions of squirrels (also hateful)
But the baby BUNNY, well, I LOVE IT!
By the way, for your general information, we are leaving for UT today.
I will be wearing my carrot shirt and the girls will be wearing their little “Senorita dresses” in anticipation of the great Mexican food we will be eating very, very soon.
Can someone explain this current decorating trend to me?
Perhaps you haven’t noticed it – but now that I have brought this to your attention, look out! You will see this EVERYWHERE!
What is the deal with how pillows are being “fluffed” where they are made to look as though they have two pointy ears. I tried to do this to some pillows on Millie’s bed (the pressure of the trend is getting to me, see) and it LOOKED WEIRD, yo!
Please, feel free to share your thoughts on this matter.
Have you been hankering for a slide show? Well, even if you haven’t you’re getting one!
Why I feel the need to make one every so often is a mystery – even to me. Well, not really, I know why I do these. They make me feel very, very happy. I love making them as much as I love watching them.
So, here is the latest endeavor in my slide show escapades.
Without further ado, may I present for your viewing pleasure, for a limited time only, The Dawson Family Reunion!
This is only a “rough draft” version. I would like to have every single family member represented and currently the following faces are much missed: Jenny, Glynn, Stephen (we seem to have a bunch of the back of you but would love to have a few of the front of you as well), Steve, Allison, Tom, William, Gitte, Emily, Sophie, Nick, Lucy and Mary.
If you happen to be one of the above people or if you happen to have a lovely picture of them from our weekend, would you send it my way?
Stay tuned for the FINAL draft…which will be completed eventually.
Before we left on our trip I was fixating on Wellingtons. Everyone in our family was in need of them. And I didn’t want just any wellingtons, I wanted CUTE ONES, of course!
I searched way more than any normal person would for just the right thing for Clara and Millie and there was nothing out there that I liked.
Initially I settled on these, for Clara
They look alright here, but on her feet they just looked SO DARK BROWN and they were way too big and she couldn’t keep them on. So back to the store they went!
When I couldn’t find anything I really LOVED I decided I’d just pick up something at the thrift store for cheap. After all you never know what treasures you’ll find at the old thrift store!
Cute, but not what I’d been searching for. They were $6.00 so I just figured that would be that.
And then,
(I know, you can hardly wait to hear what happens next…)
While we were in England I found them! The wellies I had been searching for!
THE PERFECT WELLIES!
I know this may sound totally ridiculous to some people but these just make me happy! They are so stink’n cute! I only wish I’d bought a pair for Millie too!
I had to retire my 12 dollar brown and white polka dot wellingtons from Costco because recently they sprung a leak. At the last minute, as in a few hours before we left, I bought these…
It was an act of desperation – because I had spent all my time fretting over Clara and Millie’s wellies I hadn’t really looked for myself! I felt a little bit like a poser wearing bright RED Bendels knee high wellies – but Jan’s family was nice and told me they were “elegant”. I’m not sure if that is actually”English Code” for “tacky American”.
I’ll never REALLY know
because they are all “so darn polite!”
How about them brown stripes up the back, eh?
(FYI – they are lined in brown and cream stripes.)
Are you thinking what I am thinking?
I think these are about as HOT as a pair of Wellington’s get!
Va, Va VOOM!
Or perhaps you are thinking…
Tacky American!
(Every family needs one so I am just doing my duty!)
just when everyone is getting sick of it and giving up their blogs, guess who is getting on the blogging bandwagon...me! That is about the time I catch on to whatever is trendy and cool, long after it is trendy and cool. At the very least I hope to amuse my sisters and my mom. I know how to pick an audience, don't I? I am not entirely sure if there will even be a theme but if you stay tuned perhaps we'll figure it out together. oxox Lize
