What are you up to this weekend? Toby turns two on May 25th (here's a photo of him as a newborn!), but we've having his birthday party this weekend. It's an afternoon picnic with pizza, and strawberries on popsicle sticks. I'm excited, and he definitely knows something's up. Have a great one, and here are a few fun posts from around the web...A nine-year-old writes a blog about school lunches.
Whoa. Now those are high-waisted pants.
Pinup style is back.
Biking to the supermarket!
Ice eggs for little dudes.
How common is your birthday? (Apparently people have more sex in the winter:)
Rad home makeover.
Just got this red colorblock bag for the summer.
This lion is part of the family.
How to photograph a newborn.
Moist chicken every time.
Salads for dinner.
Make your own colorblock flats.
A beautifully honest post about struggling with infertility.
And a bonus for all readers who need glasses or sunglasses: Get 20% off at Lookmatic. xoxo
(Photograph by Billy Kidd)
I will be studying all weekend for my exams. Oh, but it's just another couple of weeks and I'm done. Have a lovely weekend!
ReplyDelete(btw. love that pinup style is back. Maybe that comes with the more natural and healthy body shapes of the 50's too.)
Love the bags and the bike, would love to DIY my own but all the supermarkets now have those electronic brakes that prevent you from, ahem, borrowing them.
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend too, and happy birthday to Toby :)
OMG, so I looked up that LIFE spread about the lion. Did you know that was Melanie Griffith's family? I never knew that about her! Even freakier, at one point when Tippi Hedren, Griffith's mother, was directing 'Roar' in 1973, and the lions on that film set (not the lion in the LIFE photo spread) scalped - yes, SCALPED - Jan de Bont and injured Melanie and her father Noel Marshall. What on earth is with people trying to tame wild animals? So freaky!!
ReplyDeletethat home makeover was also featured on apartmenttherapy.com a while back... it looks like HEAVEN! i love all the lush greenery in the room with the intense colors and pops of white :D
ReplyDeletePS I am definitely still rocking that hair tutorial for the 2 plaits as one :D
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday Toby!
ReplyDeleteMy son's #1 is on the 27th...we are doing a low key picnic as well. Strawberries on popsicle sticks sounds fun. :)
Enjoy!
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Aw Happy Birthday Toby ! You guys will have a wonderful weekend celebrating !!
ReplyDelete& I am having a Stella & Dot necklace ($198) giveaway on my blog & would love for you to check it out :D
that birthday chart is fascinating. i guess my birthday (9/30) isn't as special as i once thought...the whole last two weeks of september are blacked out!
ReplyDeleteI love playing "why is your birthday the day it is?" game. One time we guessed that a friends' parents probably went camping over Labor Day and found out later from his mom that that was totally what happened. That chart is utterly fascinating!
ReplyDeleteHappy early Birthday to Toby!
Hope you have a great party Toby! I am so excited about nine-year old's blog NeverSeconds! How great is that?!
ReplyDeletehappy weekend!!!
ReplyDeletei'm loving the oscar sunglasses :)
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ReplyDeleteAw, it sounds like such a fun party for Toby! Happy weekend! x
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Those photos with the lion are amazing!!
ReplyDeleteHa! Those pants are absurd! I can't even imagine my husband's reaction if I came home wearing those! :D
ReplyDeleteI love the lunch blog (what a clever kid!) and the birthday chart, although I have to say I'm surprised that more people are apparently making babies in the wintertime...I for one feel much sexier in the summer. (Sorry, is that TMI?)
love the color block flat tips, what a fun weekend project!
ReplyDeleteSeems like you phoned that one in.
ReplyDeletehope everyone has a great weekend!!
ReplyDeleteI seriously look forward to Fridays just a little bit more because of your weekend posts. :)
ReplyDeleteMine in November is very uncommon.
ReplyDeleteApparently, people do NOT have as much sex in the deepest, darkest, coldest parts of the winter/early spring (which is still really winter in northern climes.)
Hey! My baby girl turns one on may 25th! What a coincidence! And I remember reading your blog when you were pregnant. Who would have guessed that our babies would share a birthday!? Anyways, hope you have a wonderful weekend, xx
ReplyDeleteI will be studying, studying, studying, this weekend because it's one week until exams. That biking to the supermarket picture made me laugh, what a sensible idea! hahaha I hope you have a great weekend, and wish Toby a happy second birthday from me on the 25th!
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Toby and I share a birthday!!! :)
ReplyDeleteI turn 30 next Friday!
Happy Bday sweet Toby :)
xoxo Martie
Yikes those pants are crazy haha! Happy Birthday party to Toby, strawberry Popsicle sticks sound awesome!
ReplyDeleteThat lion -- wow!! A pizza birthday party sounds fun too. I think I had a Smurf party when I turned 2 or 3 -- being a child of the '80s, I supposed it was inevitable hahaha
ReplyDeleteFriends over for homemade pizza this evening. Off to purchase a tent tomorrow, for a Memorial weekend camping trip in the planning, enjoying the sunshine hopefully. Have a good one.
ReplyDeleteLove the lunch blog - great idea from a young blogger.
I will be attending events and trying to sneak in a little rest. Great tips listed. it sounds like you will definitely have a fun weekend!
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday Joanna, and happy birthday Toby.
ReplyDeleteAs for the 'salty' comment from Alison, pffft, don't get so uppity over a link. Joanna is great about crediting where credit is due, I'm sure no disrespect to you was intended!
OMG I loved the little kid's blog about school dinners! And he seems to have become a bit of a superstar now haha!
ReplyDeleteAlways look forward to your weekend round ups. Congratulations on this amazing blog.
Isabel
Ha! I grew up on a farm and we used to freeze carrots, apples, etc., for cows and horses in a big brick of ice... never thought to do it for my kids. Awesome!
ReplyDeleteOmg, those pants are too funny. So ridiculous! I love the home makeover. Gorgeous color (and I'm not generally a fan of blue.) And, those ice eggs are too cool. I'm going to have to try that with my kids this summer. They would have so much fun with that.
ReplyDeleteThe lion in the family photo spread is just horrible though. Despicable. Wild animals deserve to be WILD ANIMALS! They are not, and should never be, pets. If they need to be in a sanctuary for some reason, they should still be treated as naturally as possible. They need space, nature, and freedom.
EEEK, happy birthday TOBY! gosh, time flies! my guy, REXFORD just turned 2 as well:
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xo, shari
Hi Joanna,
ReplyDeleteI just came by a new blog and I instantly thought of you;
www.susannekaluza.com
She's a Norwegian journalist who writes about everyday life with children in Scandinavia and much more. I'm not affiliated in any way, but I remembered your previous posts about scandinavian parenting and such, and just had to pop by and leave a comment!
Love your blog :)
Have a nice weekend!
Louise
ahaha more sex in winter... that's a good one! But actually, not every country in the world is cold at that time... I think you'd find the increase in births around September is due to the holiday season, not the temperature.
ReplyDelete@ alison and divya... you don't own the image, so nobody has to credit you at all. Crazy talk!
ReplyDeleteAlso, it appears on other blogs months before it appears on yours... have you given those blogs credit? Doubt it.
I saw one of those hybrid shopping cart bikes in park slope a couple years ago. Blew my mind! :)
ReplyDeleteIn the Australian summer my Mother refused to use the oven. Instead we had cold salads + sandwiches. I'll have to check that book out for this coming summer.
ReplyDeleteToby is so lovely! I'm in love with babies.
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I was just flipping through my latest issue of Whole Living - when I got to the last page I thought, "sounds like Joanna," and sure enough I glanced down further and it was you! What a beautiful photo!
ReplyDeleteThe lion is so cute.. A bit scary, because I've watched too many of those shows where wild animals kept as pets turn on their owners. But a sweet set of images for sure!
ReplyDeleteAnd those are pants are a bit TOO high-waisted.. they make me giggle!
Also, I just have to let you know that as a long time reader whose mouse tends to wander the page as I'm browsing, the P&G Future Friendly ad on the right is pretty irritating. It blasts sound every time I accidentally roll my mouse over it and startles me!
those LIFE lion photos are amazing! do you happen to know what issue/year those photos are from? I can't believe the picture of the lion sleeping in bed with the child...I'd be so scarred!
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I love your weekly links. That blog by a 9 year old is great! The birthdays are thicker in winters, I think it means people have more sex in summers :) (9 months before the birthdays(?)) I fall in the dense part :|
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday Toby! My daughter Charlotte turned 8 today, so this weekend she had a 'black & white' party. I can't believe it was eight years ago that my life changed forever, and that we are already past the 'fairy party' stage! Boo hoo!!
ReplyDeleteLoved your trapeze story-I think I would be too chicken to actually jump off! Good for you. xx
In all the time I've followed your blog, I somehow never realized that Toby and I share a birthday! While it's sure to be spent far differently than my 21st will be, I hope he has a great one :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing our Ice Eggs post, very glad to have discovered your gorgeous Blog. Happy Birthday to your little Toby!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Toby!!!! I'm sure the party was awesome.
ReplyDeleteWill definetely do ice eggs with my daughter, what a great idea for a hot summer day. This bike project is weird, I wouldn't go for it, but bithday chart seemed interesting. It appears I was born in the right season in summer :)
I once saw on TV that it's not that people have more sex in winter, but that women are more likely to conceive during colder times, so their babies are born during warmer times and are more likely to survive.
ReplyDeleteDid you notice the category on the school lunch blog for pieces of hair in their lunch??? Oh my, how terribly disgusting...that's one thing that absolutely repulses me. I love your lists of various things. Very entertaining.
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ReplyDeleteLoving the links for the biking, the home makeover and the colourblock flats. I've got a pair I've been wanting to do over since I've seen tutorials floating around recently.
ReplyDeleteI am in love with your enchanted blog, your attention to every charming detail is adorable and very artful. I am definitely a fan :).
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ReplyDeleteGreat pants and well worth having a party in. My kids have similar pants as well.
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