le grand tour

Dear Mom,
We have just bought our 21 day Eurail pass and this is our plan.......

Bordeaux, Barcelona, Lisbon, Madrid, Marseilles/Aix en Provence, Geneva, Florence, Rome, Venice, then take the ferry from Venice to Patras, Greece, then Athens through Bulgaria to Bucharest then Budapest, Vienna, Prague, Hamburg, breathe, Hamburg to Paris where we will stay for two weeks.

16 cities

21 days

!

WE CAN DO IT

nicole has just sent me an e-mail - quoted above - after purchasing their 21 day eurail pass.

it just has to be the most worthwhile and most gloriously, 

fully-immersed way to spend 21 days of your life.

savour........

makeover

"mom, i want to give you a makeover."

"mmmmm, ok gabi."

(do i take this personally?)

so, being a cold and gray winter afternoon with nothing better to do, gabi and i headed up to her bathroom

where she had all the needed tools and supplies labeled and ready....

before

during 

after

wow gabi, you're not a beautician, you're a magician!

it's funny.  at some point during their tween years

each of my girls has wanted to take on the healthy challenge of 

straightening my hair!  pretty well done, gabs.

ok babycakes, it's your turn now.......

before

during

after

"you gorgeous little thing, you!"

that was fun!!