The weather gods were nice to us Easter Sunday. After a cold, foggy, and drizzly Saturday, we had a warm-ish, but breezy Sunday. Good thing we had gone to IKEA Saturday to pick up some new outdoor furniture! The family came over and we had a great Easter Sunday BBQ! After we ate, we sat the baby girls on the lawn for an Easter egg “hunt”. Kadybug, who is almost 16 months, was able to pick up the eggs and put them in her basket. Then take them out, then put them back in, and so on. Mads, on the other hand, picked up one egg, and just kinda shook it to make noise. It was too cute!
T-minus 14 days…
…until vacation. Our friends, B + L are already there. Check out their blog for some great pix! Reading their blog makes me want to be there now! Still have no real set itinerary for our side vacation to Ireland, have the first night’s lodging and the last, and we’ll probably make it along as we go.
Neighbors, gotta love them, again…
So, the park/playground down the street from us is under major renovation and is set to open in a month or so. The local community groups have started organizing planning meetings, starting tonight. The “discussion” between dog peeps and the anti-dog peeps is starting to get nasty. For example, flyers that have been posted announcing the meeting have been ripped down in places. Someone, ahem, took the time to write on the paper that was still attached to the lamp post “Dog owners – stop ripping these announcements down”. Instead of cleaning it up or posting a new flyer, this person took the time to leave a note! Hello?! It makes me so upset that people can be so intolerant…especially in San Francisco. The local dog group isn’t asking for much, it’s been suggested that timed-use of the field be introduced. In Santa Cruz, dogs are allowed on the beach, off leash during certain hours, like 6a-8a and then again 6p-8p. What kids are at the park at this time anyways? Well, the other than the kids that have brought their dogs to the park? And the anti-dog contingency is against even that proposal! They’re not open to compromise one bit.
Issues like this I’m starting to realize what a stodgy and stick-in-the-mud neighborhood we live in. Now that Mollie Stone’s has taken over Tower Market, people are complaining about the increased garbage…one woman’s been complaining that of all lawns, dogs tend to do their #1 on her lawn. She’s gone so far to set up a video camera and record and count all the dogs that come by to her lawn. 83 in a give day, I believe she said. A video camera, seriously? Umm, someone’s got a tad bit of time on her hands, don’t you think. Then there’s the flower thief. In the wee hours of the morning, someone’s been driving by homes and chopping off flowers from people’s front yards. It’s been alleged that a local flower shop is the culprit. Oy. Then…there’s an “empty lot” in the ‘hood. Empty lot meaning mostly rock cliff overgrown with weeds. Someone’s complaining that people and pets are dumping too much trash there that kids aren’t able to explore. Yah, take away the trash, I probably still wouldn’t let my kid “explore”. I wouldn’t even let my dog in there.
And here I am complaining about the complainers. Mayor McHottie wants to know why families leave SF? All this complaining on relatively insignificant issues? Reason enough?
Eh, anyways…y’all don’t come here to hear me rant…you want to hear that Mads’ has cut in her bottom two teeth and has started crawling, or something along those lines. Well, she has cut in her two bottom teeth and has made big improvements in the self-mobility department. 🙂
With my lack of posting, S wondered if Kellybean, in all it’s glory, is coming to an end. True, that I haven’t been posting with a fervor like before. It’s not like we’re doing absolutely nothing, we are out and about…but, honestly folks, by the time I get home, take Lucie out for a walk, feed Mads dinner, give her a bath, make dinner for S & I, take Lucie out again, it’s 11.00p and the last thing I want to do sit in front of the computer and write about how slow my day was, or how Mads’ almost started crawling, or how more apparent it is that Lucie is slowing down (sad!). The weekends, you may wonder? Ha! We’re going on vacation at the end of the month, so that should provide me with enough fodder for a couple posts – especially since the only thing planned is our flight to/from Cork and a rental car. I’ve got to look at this with a new set of eyes…I’m also getting tired of the color theme.
S & I did manage to con my mom into watching Mads last weekend so that we could go see a flick. Since we haven’t been keeping up-to-date with what is THE movie to see, (for the record, I offered to see 300, but S passed), S conceded we decided to see The Lives of Others, the German film that won for Best Foreign Film. I thought it was great! To see the character transformation unfold was…nice (for lack of more appropriate term), despite the subject matter (the East German Stasi and their eavesdropping program – hum, sounding a little familiar?). By the end of the movie I could safely say that I was emotionally vested. Though I felt sad for the main character, I did leave the theatre with a warm, fuzzy feeling. The 2 hour 17 minute run time didn’t bother me at all.