VISITING DURHAM

I am definitely in a different kind of headspace these days. I do things like putting my hands behind my back while I’m at my desk at work and wonder how on earth I would do any work if I didn’t have any arms. It’s also been increasingly hard to leave baby to go to work, but that’s nothing new, or is it? because she is getting even cuter and more like a teeny tiny person than ever, and who knew it could be so satisfying to do things like feeding baby pureed organic green beans for the first time?

This past weekend, my mom, Sloane and I decided to do a quick trip to Durham, and it was only for a day and a half, but I will take what I can get, especially since it meant we got to take a peek (-a-boo) into my sister’s life and spend some time with her and her fellow. Sloane slept on the way down, and sat quietly like a little lady playing with her toy on her way back up.

Some things that happened during the weekend - the farmer’s market, an amazing pretzel from a food truck (melted smoked gouda mmm), lunch at watt’s grocery, consignment store shopping, the 'Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: the Cone Sisters collection' exhibit (i loved this), cooking dinner at home, good conversation, church, and brunch at Guglhupf.

And about the Matisse exhibit - my mom gets excited about Matisse, I get excited about Matisse – he’s probably one of my favorites - so maybe not that surprising that Sloane would be a fan and it delighted me to observe her checking out each of the paintings. Who knows what she sees exactly but it is my kind of wonderful to imagine what it looks like from her perspective. I loved how she fixed her eyes upon the large paintings and her eyes would go extra black. Also, we don’t know this for sure, but it seemed like Sloane would get especially excited about the paintings that had boobies in it. I guess also not surprising?