:: Project Life 03.24.13 | {currently reading} ::

My daughter, O, currently attends a Mandarin-immersion school. We are so glad to be a part of this wonderful school & community. As parents, we are asked to volunteer our time to the school. Since I'm one of the very few parents who is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, I volunteered my time as a mystery reader for some of the classes. It still amazes me how 6-year-olds, with no background in Chinese could converse with me without an accent. More amazingly, they are able to read at least 100+ characters! The young mind is such a marvelous thing.

:: Project Life 03.22.13 | {on the wall} ::

I'm sure you've noticed that I am an iPhonography addict. There's something intriguing about making art out of a snapshot. Shoot, manipulate (I use Camera+ app exclusively) and upload. Instant art. To document my photographic journey with my iPhone, I printed iPhone photos on textured card stock, trimmed them to size & Washi-taped them to the wall in our faux mud room. Oh how I wish for a real mud room one day. Another obsession for another day...

:: Project Life 03.11.13 | {weather} ::

Hard to believe this is Spring...BRRRR!

:: Project Life 03.20.13 | {fresh} ::

Fresh sunfish poké at the Mitsitam native food café, National Museum of American Indians. Such a wonderful departure from the usual museum fare.

:: Project Life 03.19.13 | {in the house} ::

Remember when you were little and your grandmother didn't allow little children with potentially grubby hands near her living room furniture...even though it was all covered in 1"-thick clear plastic slipcover??? Well, I'm not as strict with my children, but I do have a no-marker-or-pen-in-the-living-room policy. Once in a while though, somebody slips through my watchful eyes and leaves evidence behind. Purple glitter marker on neon green sticky note. Brilliant.

:: Project Life 03.18.13 | {light} ::

To most, the hearth is the symbolic center of the home, the place where the family gathers and shares. For us, our hearth is the dining room. It's not only where we share meals, it's where our children create beautiful works of art; it's where they practice their writing; it's where Daddy tells make-belief stories to coax the children into finishing their dinner. Under this light, we are a family.

:: Project Life 03.16.13 | {in the middle} ::

I found this photo in my "to be filed" folder. Better late than never, I say. It was a great shaded resting place on a hot, hot Manhattan day...playing in the concrete jungle gym.