Elysium Touch Massage

My hips have been killing me lately so I finally gave into, my friend Mariah Neesons, suggestion of a massage. GLAD I DID!! I have had many massage therapist friends over the years and still never listen to the advice and get massaged regularly. First I must say if you hope to just leave feeling “relaxed” tell Mariah before you start. When she askes “is anything troubling you?” She means, “I am really going to work that free for you, breath deap!”

My hips feel great, and I am reminded to take care of myself. My day was changed…. I even forgot about an appointment. OH NO… Thankfully they did not appear to mind, and they shopped while I scurried downtown. Heh heh….

Massage = Good

Busy Crazy Life = Bad

Of course I am kidding, I really do wish how ever that I would be smart and visit Mariah much more often. Take care of yourself, life is short!

Oh yeah and make sure to Watch “Slumdog Millionaire” by Danny Boyle

Add comment April 23rd, 2009

Movie for my Kids

Well I have to admit, I feel there is a direct relation to how my kids are acting and what movies they watch. Certain movie we all may love, Mom doesn’t like the games/behavor that follow. The Sponge Bob Movie creates silly nonsence that leads to tears. The Mupet Treasure Island keeps the piriate theme alive and well in our house. A bit of pirate is fun but the message we are teaching is to “love each other”

So when I come across “helper fixer guy” movies I love them.

1. Meet the Robinsons- My midwife kept telling us to watch this and FINALLY we did. Here is a movie we will buy. Brilliant story of “Keep Moving Forward” The movie is set around an orphan boy inventor. The first time we watched it Nate and I laughed so hard and loud when the “bowler hat guys” controls the frog and dinarsaur that James got mad at us because he could not hear!!!

2. Robots- I loved this. It was brilliant. The underlining theme of the Fathers love towards his son, and “See a Need, Fill a Need” is exactly what we are teaching our kids. The movie was clever and filled with wit, music, and imagination. One thing I was glad to see was how they showed the family side of the “bad guys”

Add comment February 21st, 2009

Mixed Topics

As of recent I have discovered that people actually read my blog I have to admit that makes me excited and nervous. Excited that I have friends who check on me, and nervous because English in general in my weakest subject. I write how I talk, in fragmented sentences. I spell how any slightly dyslexic person who has spent no time trying to improve her spelling would spell…. Horribly

Well I guess you don’t care about my faults. It drives Nathan crazy. (He is an English lit/ Spanish lit major after all) For example a local author who we love blogged about us recently. I’ve been 26 steps behind since Abraham has arrived (where is my Mary Poppins?) and did not know she wrote about us. A paper supplier in San Francisco found us because of something written about us. I went googling trying to find the latest news on aNeMonE that was unknown to us. Megan wrote and article for the Spokesman and mentioned us as well as a lovely blog mention.  (Seriously check out her blog she has THE coolest crafters blog out there. She inspires me!)

  Penny Carnival 

She took a gorgeous picture of the tree we created. Okay I’m getting to my point here…. I left her a blog comment and called her “Cleaver” instead of “Clever” If Nathan read our blog he would be irritated. What was I thinking? 1st, it was way too late at night to be posting public comments and 2nd, her site is slightly 50ish but I wasn’t thinking June Cleaver 3rd, I lost sleep over the mistake. Silly isn’t it?

On to the Blog…. What I wanted to mention besides Megan Cooley and her cool blog, was that we watched 2 movies that I wanted to share…

1. “Dan in Real Life”    I have to say we LOVED this movie. It was a comedy about “real life” it was clever (not cleaver,) it made us both laugh and cry. Maybe I loved it so much because I have a large family that has moments similar to the ones built in the movie. Maybe because the music was “Handmade” (watch the extras at the end!) Maybe because the main character held a moral standard. Kudos to Peter Hedges the director, we will be following him, like we follow Wes Anderson. Juliette Binoche we have always loved and Steve Carell is becoming one of our favorite actors

2. The Violin (El Violin)    This movie was incredibly. Nathan didn’t stop talking about it for days. Francisco Vargas directs this compelling story of three traveling musicians, a father, son, and grandson. It touches on the horror of war, the basic good of humanity, and the common language of music. This movie may be a hard one to find, we use and love Netflicks.

Abraham and the boys are doing well! Our “little aNeMonE store” has been quickly gaining customers we call “collectors.” Pick up a copy of this months, Spokane Metro Magazine at our little store, they wrote a lovely little blurp on us this issue. I’ve attached the picture they used the the Magazine. It’s Jonah with one of our paper flowers  Spokane Metro

I’ll try to write again this month. Thanks for all your love and support!

Add comment December 9th, 2008

Edith Piaf

Last night we watched La Vien en Rose

“Marion Cotillard earned an Oscar for playing beloved Parisian singer Edith Piaf, whose passion for her music saw her through a life filled with tragedy. From her forlorn childhood in a brothel to her big break at Louis Leplée’s (Gérard Depardieu) nightclub and her premature death at the age of 47, director Olivier Dahan creates a loving portrait of the legendary chanteuse. Sylvie Testud and Pascal Greggory co-star in this critically acclaimed biopic.”

Marion Cotillard did an amazing job and so deserved the Oscar. We loved it. Of course we were making paper flowers the entire time!

Add comment October 25th, 2008

Movie’s to watch

Hello my friends,

Last night Nathan and I watched “Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars,” a documentary about a group of musicians that formed in a refugee camp. The movie was totally inspiring. To show people who have faced such hardship and still can find the voice to sing. What courage….

Last week we watched “The Business of Being Born,” an expose on the American way of birthing our children. Nathan and I have wanted to produce a documentary similar to this one, so the information came as no surprise; however, we feel the subject still needs to be discussed further.

Anyways… Enjoy the spring rains

Mary

2 comments March 16th, 2008

The innocence project

I can’t help but to throw in a little politics. We watched “After Innocence” last night. A documentary about the exonerated. Check out the movie or the website http://www.innocenceproject.org/

Add comment December 12th, 2007