what you CAN do

Earth Day is drawing to a close on this side of the world (does it even exist elsewhere... anyone? Court?) but that doesn't mean we have to close our eyes on the reality and necessity of everyone doing their part. My neighbor is an environmental rockstar. She makes all of her own cleaning supplies, composts with the best of them and recycles everything. I try to be inspired by her. I don't do so well. But i really want to. I do really well with tangibles so in honor of Earth day I cleaned up and out my laundry/mud room to make room for cute blue recycling bins! For more inspiration visit JMB here and here! oh yeh - and here (the girl can't stop!)

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Happy Earth Day

let's take care of the planet and not let this happen okay? okay.

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(more) lizzie fortunato love

ny mag featured an interview with them a couple of weeks ago. see what they learned here!

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yessss! ... NO.

so, when lipstick jungle and cashmere mafia debuted (in sync, i might add) i was certainly of the camp proclaiming they were (BOTH!) going to suck! i started watching both. before i could determine which one sucked less, abc decided for me. i really got into lipstick jungle until they moved to Friday nights. Then, or perhaps it was before, its cancellation was announced. between the Friday night airings and the inevitable end coming soon, i gave up on it. i then heard nbc had re-evaluated their decision, rediscovered it on hulu and got re-hooked. just to learn last night that it has in fact been cancelled. does nbc just not want girls to watch their network at night? ugh.


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{wish} we were here

i started writing this post randomly but with Courtney cyber-jaunting a few weeks ago (and for real next) and Cassandra style (e)scaping i got inspired and am going to re-live a few (sort of) recent vaycays of my own over the next few weeks. starting here:

last March Kristen, her husband, my husband and me spent some time in Mexico (and it should be noted that Kristen's oldest (2-year-old at the time) daughter sincerely thought we were at the local Mexican restaurant the whole time).


day 1















the view - seriously. and i was drinking champgne while taking this picture. doesn't that just make it that much better?


day 2

dinner on the beach (i know it sounds cheesy, and it was - but it was lovely too. just try to tell Jim that, right Kristen?!)





















& a jalapeno martini


day 3




















the beach beds. lying out in the sun will never be the same (until i one day convince my husband we need a concrete pool with such beds in our backyard - but not this backyard, it's much too shady ;) )















oh yeh, and the swim-up bar...


day 4

tulum (thanks joanna!)

and the best authentic mexican food. ever. (my stomach is growling just looking at these)

and the cutest souvenirs (the dresses, not the girls)

day 5















the beach. i have a thing for beaches anyway but this one was particularly serene.















with the coral, which i seriously considered risking my re-entry into the United States by taking (thank you to Kristen and Matt who sternly advised me against such a stunt)


did i appreciate how lovely this place and this time with this company was while i was actually experiencing it? i've got to do better about stuff like that. hopefully doing this will help. xx


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s i s t e r s

I'm so happy life gave my children sisters. I wouldn't have it any other way. I am one of three sisters and now my girls are (so was my mother by the way and her mother). It is a fun girly world we live in! When Jim and i told Mary James and Molly that they were going to be having another sibling, we really had no idea of the reaction - but we couldn't have asked for a better one out of mj and couldn't have expected anything else out of Molly (she really didn't care either way).

And if there were any question, there won't be after you watch the video - we are from south Georgia and yes, we sound like it. Also-sorry for the bumpy video..i don't know what was going on there!

luckily, that excitement was carried over once Mills joined us and her sisters love her (now, each other that's another story..but with Mills, they are smitten)

taco bar

a few weeks ago (during the emergency beach trip) i finally had an opportunity to dine here. love. it. and the best friend i got to enjoy it with - whose birthday is today! happy, happy MEG! xo

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