I always say I'll never do it again but here I am going on a farm field trip with 28 7-year-olds, learning about Angora rabbits, chickens and two New Zealand pigs named Thelma and Louise.

22 things my children have taught me

"I'm going to give this to Maggie" Sean said showing me a leaf he had picked up while walking around in Rotterdam.

"well, you know Maggie is very busy today and maybe we won't be able to see her. we're here to bring her some things for her children in Nepal, remember?"

"but we took the train and came all this way! I really hope we get to see her."

little did I know the universe would conspire to grant my boy's wish, and teach us lessons we will never forget. thank you all so much for supporting BlinkNow Foundation and Kopila Valley Children's Home by purchasing prints and Polaroid postcards on my etsy shop this past month.

Sean gave his leaf to Maggie.

from a photo shoot with my boys in jardin des Tuileries for Small Magazine Winter Issue.

Toy-A-Day

I love that Sean and Will are growing up thinking it's a fun, inexpensive and small but meaningful way to help the environment.

come home handmade soap

waking up in that undecided state that eventually prompts us to drag the kids away from early morning cartoons and bundle them up for an impromptu day at the beach.

and it's the most normal thing in the world.

beautiful eyes gazing over me as we drove by the Seine river. reminding, once again, that we are together.

Women Are Heroes: a most wonderful book, project and exhibition by French photographer JR.

"each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and some pure foolishness."

- May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

catching up after school as if they'd been apart for months. talking about Pokemon cards, Christmas wish lists and their best friends Basile and Baptiste's upcoming birthday parties.

its the little things

back from the local library with two different editions of this book chronicling the adventures of Nicolas and his friends with odd names such as Eudes and Agnan.

note: no speech bubbles or Pokemon. I couldn't be happier.

Sunday lunch at Kunitoraya, one of our favorite Japanese restaurants in Paris.