While I feel happy and very lucky to celebrate today with my mom here in London, I can’t help but think about my cousins who lost their mother this past fall. The new normal is certainly difficult to get used to. My thoughts and hugs go out to A & M today.
via MamaTita
xoxo
Love, J.
Ah…Monday morning. I’m feeling a bit jealous of those people who have an extra day off today!
This weekend I learned that when my mom was growing up in Italy, Easter Monday – la Pasquetta – was a day for packing up the Easter Sunday leftovers and taking them to a space al fresco (outdoors) to have a picnic with family and friends.
I think Lorea Sinclaire’s Tiffin lunch kit would be perfect for a beautiful Easter Monday picnic, don’t you? Mind you – the way Italians tend to feast, we would need quite a few of these!
The Tiffin Lunch Kit by Canadian artist Lorea Sinclaire, photo taken at IDS2012 by Jordana
I would love to continue this tradition but work calls instead. How about you? Do you have the day off today? What are your plans?
p.s. I can’t believe I didn’t know about this Italian tradition before yesterday.
It’s my oldest nephew’s birthday day. He’s three and he loves (loves, loves, loves) trains…especially Percy…
Percy is the Number 6 green engine. He’s one of Thomas’ friends.
Happy Birthday Duke!
p.s. I don’t have kids but it’s amazing how much I’ve learned about Thomas and Friends over the past year from my now three year old nephew!
Happy Father’s Day to all the new and more experienced dads out there.
Fantastic Man, $210, Barneys
Happy Father’s Day Dad!
We bought you a gift but it has nothing to do with cologne. We know you’re more of an Old Spice kind of guy anyway.
When I was a kid, my mom used to have a white bicycle like this one:
via Matchbook
My sister and I used to call it the Miss Piggy Bike.
The bike still comes up often enough in conversations. I think this is mostly because apparently my sister and I made her sell it at a garage sale (I think I was 7 years old but that’s not the point). Even though my mom would never use it now, she still talks about how much she loved it and that she regrets selling it all those years ago.
I spent Mother’s Day with my mom in Toronto and when we came across one of these bikes in a Queen West shop window we both smiled and we couldn’t leave it until we said a few words about the Miss Piggy Bike.
Aw. Memories.