The girls love these sandboxes: princess castle for Pea and mermaids for Coco. They can be entertained with them for hours. I, of course, love that. What I do not love is the ensuing clean-up when they are done. C’est la vie…

I am obsessed with “Vogue Living Houses Gardens People,” a gift from my mother, an interior designer. I could thumb through this book for hours. And anything with Marina Rust in it, she of patrician all-American beauty? I love peeking into her lovely life. Can’t get enough of that…

The girls and I are back in Vancouver. Yay. And since the last time we were here, my oldest was limping around in her too-small rain boots, we found her a new pair in her size (I can never seem to keep up with kids and their ever-growing feet). She will never, I repeat never [...]