17. Water
{tastes so good}
January 17, 2012
isabel and alistair
January 17, 2012
When I first moved to Boston right after college, I was a nanny.
I found this amazing family in Charlestown and worked at their house for a year and a half. Isabel was 16 months when I first arrived, and there was a little sprout just cookin’ in the oven. Alistair was born just shy of 2 months after I began.
I fell in love with these kids, as nannies often do. If you’re lucky, you become a part of the family.
And I was lucky.
They were (and are) the two sweetest little kids.
I loved that job. And I loved that family.
I’ve kept in touch the best I can. Sometimes we see each other a lot, and other times months go by before we get together. It’s the way of life I guess, but more than anything, I miss them.
A few years ago, I was asked to be Alistair’s godmother. Of course, I accepted, and I have never felt so honored. We used to call him monkey. He was walking at 8 months and he never stopped jumping! At his baptism he was 3 years old, and he wouldn’t sit still the entire time.
He’s a pretty special kid:
“Anna, watch me wink!”
Mostly, I am just so thankful to still be a part of their lives. I love watching them grow, and they are growing so fast before my eyes.
The other day Meg and I went over to visit and have dinner.
We met their new dog Otis and watched them play together like best friends do.
I love how they are so close. Just like me and Meg.
And most of all, I love how evident it is that they still love me, how I’m still important to them even though I’m not around much.
That means the most to me.
Alistair had a surprise birthday last year and as soon as he walked in the room and everyone shouted HAPPY BIRTHDAY!, Isabel ran up to him and said in the cutest voice, “Alistair, Anna’s here!”
And that kid ran up to me so quick and jumped into my arms.
There is nothing more satisfying than that.
I love you, I-bell and Monkey. I love you to the moon. ♥
the best new app that ever happened to me
January 16, 2012
Oh my goodness. Oh my goodnessssss.
Do you people know Flipboard yet?
It’s super fun and really amazing. A m a z i n g.
My friend Hannah told me about it last week and I have been raving about it ever since. I decided I needed to blog about it for two reasons:
1) To get it out of my system.
2) To let you in on the goods!
Unless of course, you already know about it, which just would be the case. I’m usually behind the times in the trends. If this is the case, just shake your head at me and move along with your day. I can handle it.
For those of you that don’t yet know about Flipboard, it’s basically an app (for iPad and iPhone) where you can organize all your social media in addition to your favorite daily reads (i.e. blogs, online magazines, etc). It’s like your own personal magazine of sorts. Because you design what you want to put on your dashboard.
Here’s mine:
You choose what you want to read about.
Imagine that!
Originally I linked my personal facebook here, and then promptly removed it when I came to the realization that it’s mostly filled with JUNK. For serious. People posting links, youtube videos and the like that I couldn’t care less about. One “friend” even posted her boyfriend hanging out with no shirt on showing off his newly shaved head. NO thank you.
I think I need to reprioritize and start giving people the boot.
Anyways, that’s neither here nor there.
What was this post about again?
OH YES.
Flipboard.
So anyways, each button on your dashboard brings your further into your “magazine” and this is where you can keep up to date on what’s happening out there in the internet universe.
Want to know what’s happening on the twitter?
{Pictures included and everything!}
Care to check out some sweet instagram photos?
{you can “like” and comment right on Flipboard. LOVE.}
Feel like catching up on your favorite blogs?
The iPad app is incredible, because you can see so much at once and your eyes are literally beaming with glee, but the iPhone app is perfectly fine too, for on the go web-reading…
You just easily flip through the pages of your personal magazine to find all the latest of what’s going on with your friends and favorite bloggers.
JACKPOT!
Here I’ve taken a few pages and clumped them together (usually you’ll just see one page at a time):
It’s really amazing, totally fun, and best of all, the app is free!!
Everything all in one place.
And the layout is so clean and happy.
You can add online newspapers too, or really anything that strikes your fancy.
I’m trying to keep mine simple, only my most traveled to sites on the world wide web.
So super cool, right? What will your Flipboard look like?
