passing time

on hot summer days when we're not at the pool or the beach.

making superhero masks. modeling clay birds. enjoying the last glass of elderflower drink and making pizza for dinner. creating dragons for the dungeons. drawing robots.

that elderflower drink was good. my amazing mother had brought flowers from her garden and made a bottle of the best summer drink ever. sweet taste of denmark mixed with lemons from our garden.

just a year ago my boys pretty much never felt like drawing. or anything else that involved sitting down at a table. today they all love drawing and creating. i guess everything comes in it's own time and we just need to be patient and stop worrying.

wishing you a wonderful weekend.

old school angry birds

one day last month, sick and home from kindergarten. at some point even the iphone got boring (or confiscated by the rightful owner to, you know, actually making phone calls).

then good old building blocks got out and mixed with the world of angry birds.

fast forward one month and i have another kid home with fever. meaning we're taking a break from beach and pools this week. but if you're out there, in water world, keep an eye on your little ones and go check out how drowning doesn't look like drowning.

the other day in the pool a little girl almost drowned. right next to where we were sitting. only her dad noticed, and ran from a far to get her out. the rest of us sat rigth there and pretty much managed to overlook that among all the happy, splashing kids a girl was drowning. scary.

feeling blue

eilat blue that is. that gorgeous turquoise of the red sea.

we decided on the wednesday after my mom arrived to drive down to eilat. and so we did the following day.

we stayed for two days and then drove back home. it was two lovely days of dolphins, diving and beach time. and a bit of wind surfing.

sharing a moment

sweet little ones.

yesterday i saw this girl dance down in nevet tsedek. so beautiful and so talented. thank you, sara. the show was very intensive. beautiful, and yet i felt tense all the way through.

my mom is here and tomorrow we're off on an adventure hoping to meet magical creatures.

a look on the inside

a couple of weeks back we had an afternoon snack session in the garden. with some books.

for a few years the overall book of choice, the book that the kids have returned to over and over again, has been an animal encyclopedia. it is literally falling apart. the front and back covers are long gone and the pages have been taped and reattached several times. It’s been going along to the kindergarten, the beach, on plane rides and on car trips.

lately other fact books have turned into favorites. such as a book about the human body. things like how we detect smells, the layers of skin, how the muscles are build, how the lungs work, the heart pumps, and the fact that there's a spiraling "snail" inside the ear. i tell you, this is gold to know, read and talk about.

all this stuff on the inside is so fascinating (yes, it is!) that it has to be reexamined through drawings. of muscles, blood veins, the heart, the brain, eye balls, you name it. oh, and of course - and as as you might have noticed already - a stomach full of bowels and food inside those bowels (proudly displayed by daniel in the second photo in case you wondered).

bonus info: that black spot in the lower left corner of the stomach is a schnitzel bite.

something about light

yesterday around bedtime i heard myself tell the kids that yes, they'd have to go to bed soon even if it was still light outside. because in the summer the day continues into the night.... seriously?
luckily they didn't ask me what exactly that's supposed to mean. or see how i rolled my eyes at myself.

we'll be going to denmark this summer. as usual. they'll just have to get used to days going well into the night. i love the long, light summer nights of denmark. i'd like to go even further north one day and try those summer days that last all through the night.

here's to summer light.

a flying act

the trick is to keep the string tight. all the time. loosen it too much and the kite falls, slowly, spiraling down. but you can't pull either .it's got to float on the air, flying high.

it's pretty much like so much else in life, a constant balancing act, not too much, nor to little. find the balance or it will crash, eventually. then get it up again. and in between remember to notice how pretty it is. i sometimes do.

this weekend was great in all its lazines with beach, food and family.