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Song:
Bad Connection by Yaz. Mimi’s obsession this week.
Scripture:
3 Nephi 22:13 And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Pictures and Story:
Sometimes I feel like I live two lives. I have my life as a parent and then my life after they are asleep or when they’re with a babysitter. This makes for a very busy life – I do a million kid things during the day and then I work on my other projects at night. I am SO LUCKY I get to stay at home with them most of the time, and I fear greatly that time might come to an end before they are in school all day. I can’t imagine letting someone else get my kids ready every day or letting someone else have all the fun memories of activities with them. No way.
We went to SLC last week to see if it was a real option for us to move there. I was accepted into the University of Utah Law School (why be modest … they called me and asked me to go. Ha.)
They had an open house on Friday so that was our excuse for making the 12 hour trek. I was also visiting to work with NIYA Model Management. I’ve been consulting and doing internal communications things for them for the last few months. More on the modeling agency in the next post.
Anyway, here’s SLC with Minions.
Church History Museum. Top floor is a killer children’s museum.
This is one of the main reasons I wanted to become a parent. She bought a bundle of lollipops from the dollar store and I let her eat all of them at once. Just because I can.
Visiting NIYA Model Management’s studio in Downtown SLC.
My sweet little baby boy. Silas is 3 now and he’s my little cuddler. No diapers anymore, it’s bittersweet.
Mimi discovering that SLC is freaking cold.
The Discovery Museum Life Alert Helicopter.
Disco museum. I outclimbed him, but I tried not to rub it in.
Mimi crushing buildings.
The kids were the only children invited to our friend Jory’s Savory Sundays. They were SO EXCITED to go to an adult party.
This crazy piece of work is at Gilgal Gardens in the center of Salt Lake City. Joseph Smith meets the Sphinx. The whole garden was filled with inexplicable stone sculpture. I can usually tease out the meaning of work, but this who place blew my mind. It’s a must visit. 749 East 500 South. Thanks DB who showed us this masterpiece of crazy.
I love that Jude’s natural pose is Freddie Mercury’s.
One of the benefits of hanging out with photographers is that they teach your kids how to do it. Thanks SB! You were so patient and not freaked out about the kids swinging your camera around.
Jude was particularly engaged. Hoping he develops artistically in this way.
This happened. It was my first time driving in the snow and it was scary, but I managed.
Trips with little kids are hard, but my kids are fun. I love how willing they are to interact with new friends, I love that they play nicely together, I love that they eat whatever food I want to eat, I love that they have their own senses of style and are independent and happy.
Oh, and Jude’s hair? He bugged me for two weeks to dye it green. I initially said no, but what leg do I really have to stand on? Green it is.
3 comments:
I always new you existed (through your sister in Bwood, used to be in her ward) and I knew somewhat of your life in a very disconnected weird way(not through your sister, through an ex-sis-in-law of mine) but I had never read your blog until now. And I haven't stopped for the past 2 hours. We have some interesting parts of our lives in common. I am a single mom, 2 kids (although they are teens), with ups and downs that have put me in a bad spotlight amongst my old friends in California (I live in Missouri now). Anyway, the point of my babbling is that I have tried 20 million ways to put into words what its like to juggle the LDS/singlehood stigma that comes with divorce from a roller coaster of a marriage and you just summed it all up for me...THANK YOU! Its nice to see validation and understanding written PERFECTLY and IMPERFECTLY. You are AMAZING, I can only hope selfishly that you will continue to keep writing, although from the sounds of it you are entering into a crazy busy part of your life. And I will be sad but happy for you as you move on to the next adventure. Congrats! So glad I found your blog, I really needed it...really. Take care...
I should have read my comment before posting. Errors! Oh well, that's what I get for staying up till 1am reading your blog :)
I am a lurker from a friend of a friend of a friend's blog.... but I thought you should know about this if you move to SLC: http://utah.todaysmama.com/2011/05/05/gilgal-sculpture-garden/ There is a scavenger hunt for kids there. (And I am in the SLC area, there are SOOO many fun things to do and freebies left and right for just about everything from the Discovery Gateway (3/14 every year), the zoo (last Wednesday of the month from Nov-Feb), Living Planet Aquarium, This is the Place. You will have to dodge the Utah culture, but the family-friendly is SO worth it here!)
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