Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
“Who kept the faith and fought the fight; the glory theirs, the duty ours.” Wallace Bruce Summer is here! Isaac loves pineapple, watermelon, cottage cheese, etc. He’s gained a couple pounds this week and is a little chunk! We celebrated Memorial Day at our friends the Sharp’s BBQ and Isaac splashed in the kiddie pool…
Dusk and our enthusiasm settled softly over Fushimi Inari Shrine. We were only halfway up the mountain, the mosquitoes were buzzing around our tasty baby, and it was getting darker by the minute. We turned around. Lanterns flickered on as the sunlight faded, fanning shadows through the legs of the thousands of torii gates that make the…
27 days old on the go! Isaac took his first train ride at three weeks old. What. Were. We. Thinking?! Japanese people don’t usually take their babies out of the home for their first month, sometimes two. We discovered this when we showed up to church with Isaac a week after he was born. “What…
Huge omission! The whole room theme centered on this precious silk elephant from the Bangkok Night Market. He’s aqua and gold with a peachy saddle. And the lamp he’s next to is a traditional Japanese Obon lantern that symbolically guides you home. I bought saris in Singapore because Jill and Chrissy did. Jill unfurled yards and yards of…
I LOVE the nursery! It’s colorful, fun, very ‘us,’ is cute without being babyish, and is easily convertible: switch the crib for a bed and it ages nicely, or if we ever go in a different nursery decor direction, just about everything would drop seamlessly into other rooms in the house. I would take that…
This is an embarrassingly First World problem—Mari’s Passport Diaries (the blog, not me) was having an identity crisis. I am blogging about blogging—a new low. Chris, Isaac and I walked through some Florida swamp on an elevated boardwalk this weekend. We left our house, strolled, got home in under two hours. This is such a…
What’s more fun than lunch with a friend? Lunch with a friend, a couple babies, and some alligators at the Swamp House! Just kidding, we didn’t see any alligators…this time. “Come back in a month, when the water gets warmer, and they come out of the Escambia River and up in here,” said a friendly…
