Maude has her first guitar recital on Saturday. She’s playing Taylor Swift’s You Belong With Me. (Of course she is. She’s 11. When I was 11, my favorite song was We Built This City. Do you remember what yours was?) Maude has been working really hard on her piece and I think she’s going to have fun rocking it out in her first performance. I want to get this Jam Session print for Maude’s room — or maybe for our family room. It’s by Emily Dumas and is sold at The Working Proof. Every print at The Working Proof is attached to a good cause. Isn’t that cool?
While I reminisce about 6th grade music choices, here are a few things I’ve been wanting to share with you:
-Let’s make cool string light fixtures!
-I love this essay on what it’s like to raise children in Las Vegas. Thanks, Kristen.
-What a fun baby announcement.
-A hilarious contract about packing lunches.
-Could you go a week without wearing denim?
-Instead of a hotel, you could stay in a Swedish Forest Hut.
-Do you ever feel like this photo?
-Alexa Chung for Madewell. Dreamy.
-Turquoise and red.
-A neat clock.
-I want a Paul & Jordan cake painting.
I write a daily post for Babble’s Family Style blog. Here are this week’s posts:
-I have a love/hate relationship with my duvet.
-Super cute (and easy to clean!) kid-size aprons.
-Coolest baby/toddler snowboots in the world.
-Prettiest popsicles.
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my favorite song was “I write the songs” by Barry Manilow! Sixth grade rocks!
I also read Kirsten’s piece, she is an amazingly talented artist and gifted writer. I have a photo kind of like that but there are magazines piled on the person’s head and yes, I feel like that at least once a day!
I want a Paul and Jordan cake painting too.
Thanks for sharing the article about raising kids in Vegas. I know how she feels.
Sixth grade? I was all about the Beach Boys and the Supremes. It was the early 80s, but my musical taste was (and is) somewhat stuck in the 60s.
PS: I think that was the year I also liked the Grease 2 Soundtrack. Don’t judge.
That’s really great pick for 11! Impressed!
ha! gr. 6, huh? my musical tastes were very mature for my age… i was rockin’ it out to paula abdul, “straight up” and “opposites attract”. don’t be jealous! ;)
Thanks for linking to my no denim challenge Gabrielle!
have a great weekend. :)
I had to look up the number ones from 1990…I LOVED Madonna’s Vogue, and I can still accurately recite all of the lyrics. It took me a while to learn who each person was, but I’m thankful that the song sparked my interest.
And that is a beautiful print! My husband is a percussionist, and my daughter seems to love anything that makes noise as well…I’m thinking nursery. :D
Turquoise & red combos have been my secret obsession for about 2 years. It’s good you’ve introduced it to the world – the more others buy, the less there will be for me to put myself in debt over :)
I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Your blog is my treat when I need a little quiet time to myself – thanks for all your inspiration.
I am so excited as I am now an owners of one of Paul and Jordan’s cake paintings!!! Can’t wait to make it part of my new clutter wall that I am putting together with the help of Anna Spiro of Absolutely Beautiful Things.
I love love this print! So great! I wish it was in a another color story, or maybe it is! Going to go check it out now.
Hope the recital was fab! Love when kids are passionate about something, so heart warming!!
Thank you for remembering Starship. Cassette Tapes. Dancing in my bedroom. Some of my fondest memories. Love to see you are doing so well! and still up to fabulous things.
We Built This City! Man, that brings back memories. My sister and I had a whole dance routine to that song. It was rad.
You´re such a cool mom! She´ll love it!
“We Built This City” was so one of my favorites too!
Love that Maude’s doing “You Belong To Me!” That is my almost 4 year old’s favorite song by far! Except she calls it “The T-shirt Song.” Good luck to Maude–please tell her how super cool she is. I was so awkward at 11 to even think about reciting anything in front of my peers.
Were we 11 at the same time? We Built This City was one of my most favorite songs ever. I always loved the part in the middle with the radio DJ talking about the weather in San Francisco.
I cracked up reading the Lunch Duty Letter of Agreement; thanks for sharing that! And I was starting to warm up to the Swedish Forest Hut Vacation Alternative (so Lord of the Rings!) until my ever-practical 7-year-old reminded me: “Mom! You’d get eaten alive by BUGS!!” :-)
Thanks for the awesome-ness that is the Working Proof. We also really dig tinyshowcase.com — you’ll have to check it out. XO
I love the music print. New Kids On The Block “The Right Stuff” most fav in 6 grade. I am proud to say I was a groupie…What can you expect from a 12 year old?
YES!!! i was a huge new kids fan too. how embarrassing! i remember writing their names on all my binders. ugh!
now this is funny… last year they came touring through and my friend and i went to the concert. she was 39 weeks pregnant with #2, i was 19 weeks pregnant with #3. somehow when donnie was saying perverted things to all the 30+ aged women, it wasn’t as cool anymore. ha ha! but still a good time!
I totally did this too! I saw them in October 2008 when I was 8 months pregnant with my first child. And I saw a ton of other pregnant women around my age there too. It was so funny!
The first song that touched my heart was The Cure’s “Love Song”.
Thanks for sharing about The Working Proof. I will keep it on my radar.
I’m sure Maude rocked it! Any chance you’re gonna share a vid?
Thanks for the amazing links. You make my weekend cruising so much more interesting. (PS – The Working Proof has the print back in stock!)
that turquoise and red room is amazing – i love the negative space and that line of teal pottery – wow.
thanks, love your lists :)
Yay-glad you’re still thinking about going to France. DO IT! (If you think its the best thing, that is.) ;) What an opportunity. Terrific clock, likely wouldn’t go without denim and definitely feel like that photo sometimes. :)
I loved Kristen’s article on Las Vegas. I grew up there; my parents are still there; we would still be there if we hadn’t needed to move because of work when our oldest was almost a year. It is such a special city. I love where I live now, but Las Vegas will always have a big, huge place in my heart–slots in the grocery store and all!
I LOVED anything Bon Jovi. We went to a Christian school at a fairly conservative church and my parents both taught music there, so as you can imagine we had a hard-and-fast rule regarding secular music, mostly that there would be NONE OF IT. But we had next door neighbours who would blast Bon Jovi while working on their Trans Am, and I instantly fell in love.
Also, because my parents were teachers with four children, they both had the summers off and they were pretty much broke the entire time. This meant road trips, lots of them, and while we were on these trips my parents’ 60′s-wild-child rebellious side would sneak out, so we would listen to the greatest hits of James Taylor and Blood, Sweat, & Tears over and over again. I knew all the words to “Gone to Carolina” and “Lucretia MacEvil”. It was a good time, and I loved seeing my parents that free, smiling at each other and remembering a time before minivans, mortgages, and sweaty, sullen teenagers.
Love this! I’d love it in a big chunky frame.
My favorite song when I was 11 was a tie between NKOTB’s “Step by Step” and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel. But I remember my entire 6th grade class loving “Everybody Dance Now” by C + C Music Factory. We chose it as our class song! Gotta love the early 90′s!
That Jam Session print is outstanding – so creative + cool.
Does your daughter take private guitar lessons?