Matilda loves Horton Hears a Who. We bought the audio book to listen to in the car and she nearly has it memorized. If you don’t know the story, its about Horton the elephant who has great hearing and is able to detect a world of people living on a dust speck. He protects them [...]
Someday, I will do a real kitchen renovation. (And I already know who I want to hire to do it!). For now, I am working within my budget which means new paint and tile instead of the vinyl floor. Before: After: We also did a new bathroom floor and vanity and installed some new hardware. [...]
I love IKEA. You can’t beat the prices and I think their reputation for low quality goods is undeserved. Many of the items we bought at IKEA has held up quite well in comparison to furniture that I we bought at Crate and Barrel. And the design is wonderful. Even though we can afford to [...]
Matilda was introduced to Disney princesses when she was 20 months old by her older cousin. At the time, she was fascinated by the dolls and later the dresses. I decided that I would not fight back against it and let her have her princess dolls, sheets, and books. After all, I liked princesses back [...]
Pablo and I have a design company called Hanee Designs. We generally do not do any marketing as all of our work comes via word of mouth and we have more than we can handle. But blogging for the family has been so much fun that I decided that I need to blog for the [...]
Pablo got me a new light fixture for mother’s day! Before After Its called a Nelson Saucer Lamp. The design is by American designer George Nelsen. It was designed in in 1947 and is part of the permanent collection of the MoMA. I love the way it goes with my mid-century design chairs! //
This is my garden one year ago And this is my garden this year! The photos are exactly one year apart. I guess the plants just needed time to put down roots! //
I read a great article in the New York Times yesterday that addresses my previous blog post. From: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/health/04cost.html May 3, 2010 Teaching Physicians the Price of Care By SUSAN OKIE When Dr. Ryan Thompson, an internist, was a medical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston a few years ago, he worried that he [...]
This is what is wrong with healthcare in America. Matilda had a bronchial infection, so the doctor prescribed antibiotics. The particular antibiotic that she prescribed cost us $53 (with insurance). If I did not have insurance it would have cost me over $80. Is azithromycin SOOOOO much better than $4 amoxicillin? And is the doctor [...]
I have watched Koreans eating live octopus on TV a couple of times. A couple of months ago, we watch Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations visit a place in Flushing Queens where the prepare live octopus several ways. We knew we had to try it! We went with friends Julie and Dave (and the kids) and [...]