so close

Today was my last day of Saturday school. On Tuesday Lev and I go on vacation. I'm ready!

oh lovely

The cherry blossoms are blooming in Chicago. It is March. Let me repeat that, because I didn't quite believe it the first time I wrote it: the cherry blossoms are blooming in Chicago in March. And the trees outside our front windows are turning green and I am so happy that the weather heard me back in February when I said, "You know what? I think I would like to have only one more month of this city in the cold and gray. Okay?"

sunrise

The morning, this morning.

Spring at last

We are enjoying eighty-degree weather here in Chicago and have been doing so for the past week. Levy and I were out walking yesterday and we noticed that the trees recently began blooming and blossoming. Sometimes living in the Midwest isn't so bad. (But most of the time we miss the beauty and surroundings of our old coastal lives.)

this is where I'm at today.

relaxation nation

Today these slippers came in the mail at work. It seriously took all that I had to not rip off my shoes and wear these the rest of the day.

Housey stuff

Something really important happened this weekend!

And what follows is a picture of a cabinet that seriously took a year for us to make up our minds on. But it's beautiful and Lev and I are glad we finally took the plunge!

And some other pictures.



This reminds me of when you are taking a picture of a dog and it sniffs the lens.



marching

I just read some of my posts from last year and they filled me with hope and happiness. At this time last year I was looking forward to starting the job that I now have (and love); we were three weeks and three days away from finding our lovely apartment of which I probably post too many photos; and we weren't even married yet! Strange. I feel like my life has been like this forever, but a lot can happen in just one year.

Levy is turning 34 on Saturday. I think I may have outdone myself. Not to reveal too much, but let's just say that his two main interests should be satiated come tomorrow. I also just got back from picking up his ceremonial lemon-with-strawberry-filling cake at the bakery. I have to say, the script on the cake is much better this year than it was last year. Cake pictures to come.

In the mean time (and speaking of posting too many photos of our apartment), check out the incredibly radical rug that we just got! Those are lions!