Real footage shot by Hugo (3) of me praying for a swift bedtime with minimal shenanigans 🎭🍷#lunareclipse
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Hugo, 3: Mommy, does your shirt say, ‘I got a new haircut’? Me: Nope. Hugo: Does it say ‘Boobs’? Me: Yep! 👚 : @suburbanriot @goodcarmastudio 💇♀️ : @sandrashowershair @harperonmelrose
The answer is always yes. 💨
Holy smokes, how’s everyone doing out there? I’m doing my very best to stay in my tiny optimistic bubble, even if it means I don’t get out much, save school drop offs and pick ups. Keeping the kids healthy and in school (as much of that as I can control) has become top priority. We chose to cancel Louie’s big birthday party and let Omicron have its way a little longer. When we told him, he cried. It broke my heart. I canceled the bounce house and the pizza and the giant cake, and we found ourselves with zero plans over his special weekend. I kept coming up with fun backup ideas, places to go, and then realized WE CAN’T GO ANYWHERE. As a last ditch effort, I ran to Whole Foods to find something festive from the bakery. It was so picked over, the only thing remaining (that also seemed relatively palatable to a 7yo) was a red velvet cake, except it had the most horrible decoration – it looked like it had a few vaginas lying on it, with a heavy sprinkling of rabbit turds on top. I bought it despite the pit in my stomach. It just felt so lame, trying to make mirth out of a shitty situation and just: poor Louie, you know? I drove home feeling so defeated, and when I pulled into my driveway I looked down at the cake sitting in the passenger seat next to me and I laughed out loud. Like a huge belly laugh. Shit, that’s ugly, I thought, maybe this will make a good story someday. I have pouted and begrudged my way through so much of these past 2 years, feeling scared, feeling heavy with resentment, wanting the world to be different in a hundred ways. But I’ve quietly noticed lately that as Omicron has been sweeping all our current plans aside (yet again), I’m recovering faster. I’m letting it roll more easily, I’m finding more peace (even if it means going on news fasts and making my Dry January a Damp January). Through the deep breathing and pivoting and letting go and making the best of it? Dammit, I can actually FEEL my resilience. And I’m seeing it in the people around me, too: my kids, my husband, my friends. What a blessing. [continued in comments👇🏻]
This is seven! Happy NYE Birthday to this amazing kid who made me a mom. ❤️
M E R R Y ❤️ C H R I S T M A S ! ! ! My week has been so, so full of high highs and low lows, and I’ll bet yours too as we navigate these crazy times…I’m wishing that we all find blessings and peace and lightness in the chaos. I’m learning a little better how to ride the waves** instead of getting thrashed by them. Care to join me? 🌊❤️ Sending Christmas love, my IG fam:) Love, Jolie **case in point: I was today years old when I learned how to break up a brother scuffle with one hand while not spilling a drop of coffee out of the mug in the other 👊🏻
M E R R Y ❤️ C H R I S T M A S ! ! ! My week has been so, so full of high highs and low lows, and I’ll bet yours too as we navigate these crazy times…I’m wishing that we all find blessings and peace and lightness in the chaos. I’m learning a little better how to ride the waves** instead of getting thrashed by them. Care to join me? 🌊❤️ Sending Christmas love, my IG fam:) Love, Jolie **case in point: I was today years old when I learned how to break up a brother scuffle with one hand while not spilling a drop of coffee out of the mug in the other 👊🏻
M E R R Y ❤️ C H R I S T M A S ! ! ! My week has been so, so full of high highs and low lows, and I’ll bet yours too as we navigate these crazy times…I’m wishing that we all find blessings and peace and lightness in the chaos. I’m learning a little better how to ride the waves** instead of getting thrashed by them. Care to join me? 🌊❤️ Sending Christmas love, my IG fam:) Love, Jolie **case in point: I was today years old when I learned how to break up a brother scuffle with one hand while not spilling a drop of coffee out of the mug in the other 👊🏻
M E R R Y ❤️ C H R I S T M A S ! ! ! My week has been so, so full of high highs and low lows, and I’ll bet yours too as we navigate these crazy times…I’m wishing that we all find blessings and peace and lightness in the chaos. I’m learning a little better how to ride the waves** instead of getting thrashed by them. Care to join me? 🌊❤️ Sending Christmas love, my IG fam:) Love, Jolie **case in point: I was today years old when I learned how to break up a brother scuffle with one hand while not spilling a drop of coffee out of the mug in the other 👊🏻
What can I say, I’m an optimist to my own detriment 🤷♀️
You’d tell me if I had anything in there, right? #truefriendship #kalesalad
Blue Friday! 💙 Free fresh air and two-for-one sun! 🌊 ☀️ #thankful
Blue Friday! 💙 Free fresh air and two-for-one sun! 🌊 ☀️ #thankful
Blue Friday! 💙 Free fresh air and two-for-one sun! 🌊 ☀️ #thankful
Blue Friday! 💙 Free fresh air and two-for-one sun! 🌊 ☀️ #thankful
Blue Friday! 💙 Free fresh air and two-for-one sun! 🌊 ☀️ #thankful
Blue Friday! 💙 Free fresh air and two-for-one sun! 🌊 ☀️ #thankful
Well. Today this HERO noticed a small brush fire next to our house(!) and told mom and dad, who immediately called 911. The ballers from @losangelesfiredepartment came to finish putting it out, since (other hero) @dmpags had strung multiple hoses together to spray it til they arrived. 🔥😳😩🙏🏻😅🚒 #holysmokes #hero #hugolove #sendwine
Well. Today this HERO noticed a small brush fire next to our house(!) and told mom and dad, who immediately called 911. The ballers from @losangelesfiredepartment came to finish putting it out, since (other hero) @dmpags had strung multiple hoses together to spray it til they arrived. 🔥😳😩🙏🏻😅🚒 #holysmokes #hero #hugolove #sendwine
Happy Halloween Eve! 2 brothers 2 pumped yet weary parents 2 pumpkins to carve 0 helpers to clean out the insides 5 changes to face designs after carving commenced 4 near misses with carving tools and kid faces 63 whines 4 wines 2 pizzas 147 tears 3 boy fights 8 incidents including raised voices 58 Kit Kats 1 mosquito in the house 18 irrational fears about squirrels nibbling finished pumpkins on porch 18 conversations about the probability of said squirrels actually coming 2 pumpkins carried inside anyway just in case squirrels 1 adorable photo shoot 🎃👻🧡💀👨👩👦👦
Finally some good news! 🍷
Don’t tell my sweet, dead grandma but this year I swapped her pumpkin pie recipe for one by @onceuponachef and my LORD it smells good up in here 🎃🤐😍🦃 Happy Thanksgiving Eve, all my American friends! 😘