song in d minor

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ever feel like your dreams are a song?
                                almost like they have an intro, a chorus and a great ending?
i am reading a book that is producing vivid dreams.  my imagination and mind never seems to rest whenever a good book is in my daily schedule.

last night too, i fell asleep to sleepless in seattle and woke up in love with tom hanks. gross and sweet at the same time.

i like love it.

le petit

a few weeks ago, my sister-in-law lindsay + my bff wendy + me had a petit tea party.

it was pretty much one of my favorite afternoons in so long.

we dressed up in our pearls, our lace and feathers.

we brought over our kids to my brother and wife {lindsay's} house down the street from mine.

micah helped dip the large strawberries in the homemade fudge linds made!  such a cutie!

linds has been extremely creative and thoughtful lately.  she first of all took wendy and i to our favorite thai place the night before my big family trial to ease my nerves.  

then this tea was the saturday before it all as well. 

she made wendy and i these adorable wool coil hair clips.  

it takes her a lot of time but somehow she manages to do it when she does it!

she bought both of us adorable...

mugs from anthroplogie!

it was such an unexpected surprise.  

she is the best gift giver i know.  i am so grateful for linds.  

she didn't have to do all the bells and whistles at this tea but she did...

i wish i had the recipes to each of these but i don't.  all i know is it tasted better than any place i have been to.  we were able to help a little so i got to see how the salad was made - it was partially warm potatoes with grilled chopped onions - all homemade dressing.  the sandwiches are a devine special that linds always makes for my birthday.  

yes, gluten and dairy pills were taken before this meal. 

i was still in food hangover after.

amazing job linds.  

i am watering at the mouth thinking how delicious this food was.

for drinks we had organic peppermint tea with real mint leaf, tangerine lemon zest tea, mango passionfruit tea, and a few others.  also organic sparkling pom-grape juice with tangerine zest.

dessert: homemade chocolate dipped strawberries and cream puffs.

we were having a fun conversation and all of a sudden wendy "hit the bottle" ... it pretty much was the best candid moment of our fancy tea.  i think my tight skirt almost burst from either the food or the excessive laughing.

here is how we found our boys in the room next to us...

we had such a great time.  i think we said that a dozen times.  we want to do it again and again....
which we will soon but this time for the kids.

we are throwing a small "mad hatter" party soon for the alice in wonderland premiere.  i don't think i want jack to see it and some of the moms agree unless we are proven wrong that it's okay.  instead we are going to have a few of their friends come over dressed as either alice or a mad hatter on march 5th.  we will have a lopsided cake, herbal teas and talk about it being our "very unhappy birthdays!"  we will watch the original disney version of alice in wonderland and have a lovely time.  we are looking forward to it.

disneyland

we had a lot of fun.

i always love taking jack here.

it's a special place for children... and the children in all of us.

this time was really fun because it was...

the first time jack has been with his cousins.

quote...

"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control."
- Unknown

jackson's world

those that have been reading my blogs for a while, maybe have seen previous posts of jack's photos.

i love seeing other's perspectives and views...

especially when it's your toddler/little man.

how he sees the world.  

i have enough pictures he takes to do at least a post a week...

here is the most recent from lunch with friends.

my friend lisa made jack pout by asking him to stop taking pictures of her while she ate... 

it was pretty funny.

there were about a dozen of these tongue pictures... i'll spare time.

i let jack buy the table some chips and salsa.  he is such an independent little soul.

oh and here is a note i sometimes i want to write when we come here:

dear wahoos in san clemente,

thank you for always being so kind to us.

knowing our names when we walk towards you to order... then knowing what we order.

always having the best vegetables.

raquel really needs a raise.  he smiles enough and is good to everyone that he deserves it.

rodrigo is also a great hard worker that could deserve a raise.

we have left many chips on the floor and maria is always cool with it.

she could get a raise too.  we like her.

also, that gum-ball machine near the entrance kills me.  could you move it near the back?  jack must always beg me for two each visit.

jackson loves it when you call him nino, but dora the explorer hasn't explained to him what that is.  

thanks for the free spanish lessons, amazing chips, cilantro sauce and having brown rice now.

we love you wahoos.

love,

melissa and jackson

{pequito nino y mama malissa}

le love

good morning!
i am such an early riser.  i slept over at my friends house and woke up at 6am.  really?  yeah.  i wish i could hand out my energy sometimes.  i slept in bright red tights and red flannel so i feel perfect right now.  she has a temperpedic (sp?) king size bed, so i feel like i am across the room from her right now.  i will hopefully have a bed like this.  it's pretty much a dream bed. 


hmmm, what's on my mind.  not much really.  it's valentines day!!!! so fun!  valentines day in my home growing up was like easter.  we would have a basket of candy and heart shaped things and my mom would give us pink/floral pajamas.  

{found}

now that i have grown up, i still carry on similar traditions with jack but since he's a boy and doesn't really care for all of that i gave him a bouncy ball with a red heart in the middle that lights up if you bounce it hard enough.  he loves it!  he asked me how i got my heart in there.  i told him, "its magic!"  

this is the day i dropped him off at the airport to fly to san francisco.  he made this for his dad at preschool.  in the mail two days ago i received a valentine from him that he colored for me that read:

"i love my mommy because she gives me kisses"

pretty much set me for this weekend.  my heart is full.

this weekend without jack has also been consumed with much.

i don't want to bore you with what i did, but i do want to dedicate this post to amore.

i'll get all gooshy for the last day.

a married friend of mine and i had some tea the other day and she told me something i maybe can't forget.... 

"melissa, men are like buses.  theres a new one every 15 minutes. for you, every seven."

it got me thinking... ahhhh.  

okay, i am ready to commit.  

{fffffound}

i'm admitting this on my blog...

{ahhhh}

so there is that one thing i did hint to in the beginning. i had one of the cutest proposals.  he said i could share it...

he {sorry keeping his name private} called me to talk.  we talk a couple times a week.  he and i are very close friends and have been since i was in college.  

he told me five reasons i should marry him. 

they were adorable.  

he told me think about it in his sexy accent to think about it and get back to him, but then called back an hour later to see if i was thinking about it.

it was really sweet.

anyway, that was the big secret.  

i didn't say yes, but we are still great friends.

if a guy is reading this - highly doubt it, this would be another cute idea for your special girl.

i saw this picture and thought it was so boon and very original.  {above} 

so...

now that this post is taking me longer than expected...

{here}

in response to a card my friend sent to her new boyfriend this valentines, he said these exact via text message, "i totally have birds flapping around in my stomach right now."

pretty much set the tone for my favorite quote one valentines day.

{diana rumble photography}
last night a friend of mine through a great chinese new year party.  we all opened up homemade fortune cookies.  the fortune the three of my friends opened was hilarious. it is the year of the tiger.  what does that mean anyway?


so here are some more gooshy, lovey dovey pictures that make me happy... and why.

{keller lookbook}
she just is in her own world, on top of a building in a mysterious city filled with people in their own world doing their own thing.  she is happy and content or possibly in like. maybe love.

{hannah from hello mr. fox}

as a girl, if you get old things from grandmas, it's exciting.  i will never forget the owls i received from my dad's grandmother.  i fell in love with owls then and there in carlsbad, ca.  my other grandmothers have given me their earrings and necklaces in the past.  i love putting them on from time to time.

{original illustration by ashley goldberg}

"you know you are in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams"

-liss, AUS

today... i will wear lip gloss.

straighten my hair.

{found}

+ wear a bright red dress.

{found}

i hopefully will watch 500 days of summer. that split screen scene has got to be my favorite part of any love-chick-flick.  i am all about whats real.

{found}

i will probably not do couples yoga like my yoga friends are, but the thought of it is lovely.

i like this picture more than couples yoga.

{found}

i want to have non-dairy yogurt.

in japan.

i still want to see those blossoms come in april.

i want to take jack.

or go by myself.

i am already in love with japan.

{le love}

amazing picture.

ah-mazing.

i am going to write with chalk on the sidewalk something 

sweet so when jack gets home, he feels some loves.

this is my valentine.

jackson gives me flowers.  

he picks me flowers anywhere and everywhere.

if we are in a house, he will pick a flower from fake flower plants and give them to me.

his dad sent this picture to me since jack wanted to give me this flower from san francisco.

so sweet. 

maria taylor is one of my favorite song writers/singers.

this is one of my greatest love songs.

Lyrics to Two Of Those Two :
There was a time two fearless minds
Where we packed up for a new place
A college town with a musical sound
And everyone had a new face
There was something there
Maybe it was the trees
Or the flowery air
Or that everyone seemed so glad
They were there
And we were two of those two
We were two of those two

We got a house in between a homeless shelter
And a coffee shop
We painted the walls until we couldn't reach
I said, "It looks cool this way, let's stop."

There were always people there
Maybe it was the music
We played on the record player
Or that everyone seemed so glad
They were there
And we were two of those two
We were two of those two

And those were the times
The quietest days
We'll sit and smile and remember
Nothing could feel the same
We were so free
We were in each passing second

And you can't sustain
Anything, everything must change
So be thankful for everything
And I am
I am
I am