Friday Fatigue

Today was a crawl-back-in-bed kind of Friday.

The original intent of this post was to write about motherhood-work-life balance. Joanna Goddard has some great posts about the juggle. Instead, as per usual, a series of things that take priority over the blog came about: eat, brush teeth, kids laundry, school volunteer work, work-WORK ... Then, even more distractions via Instagram and I happened upon this pic (above) posted by Mary Manning. Perfect summary of how I feel this morning! The image is from a series by Felix Weigand of rotary printed newspapers, "This Week" in 2007. Here's a quote about it.

Then to keep the procrastination rolling even more: I was listening to Desire Lines by Deerhunter on repeat, so I figured that I may as well look up the lyrics – and was happy with what I found as it seemed appropriate with my mood. The song also has a familiar Eno riff in there.... right? Needle In the Camel's Eye. I'm not crazy.

Sooooo, here's this rambling post instead! :) Thanks for sticking around.

Peanut Butter Jelly Time + SF Bay Area Discovery Museum

image from the Family Guy

Every Friday morning, our house wakes up in a Peanut Butter Jelly Time dance on our bed, excited for the weekend to come. Like most, at the beginning and end of the week, I tend to have a lot on my mind. Fridays, mentally wrapping up the week behind me and looking ahead to the weekend's plans. This week, my thoughts have sadly been with the people of the Philippines, in the midst of the Super Typhoon Haiyan and the shooting here at LAX.

Looking ahead to this weekend, I'm keeping it positive as we are traveling to San Francisco to celebrate my grandmother, Paw Paw's 95th birthday at a big Chinese Banquet with my extended family that we rarely get to see. And I'll spend time with my parents, including my father on Veterans Day, who served as a Marine.

image via the Bay Area Discovery Museum

I love visiting the Bay Area. One of the kids many favorite play-centric places is the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito. I miss the Willow Sculpture by artist Patrick Dougherty. But his current installation, Peekaboo Palace at the Lookout Cove is no less magical. The adventures the kids create there are infinite. 

Have a lovely weekend.