Thank you for allowing me to take you along to California during the entire month of May!
This month Jil and Pauline joined us, by now I totally know my way around Santa Cruz and San Francisco, and the kids surf like champions – sometimes competing with sea otters and seals ;), as these are not very afraid of people and don’t let the surfers phase them.
Additionally...
- I described further details about our everyday life in Santa Cruz and took you along to the flea market and the Beach Boardwalk,
- there were 10 ideas for summer – such as our current favorite summer granola,
- I raved about the friendly Californians, who spontaneously gave me a free dinner,
- and reported about our beauty finds in America – and what in particular we noticed about them,
- I showed you the nicest bikinis of 2015,
- shared the recipe for a summery cinnamon bread with strawberries and my California playlist
- and wrote the third part about things you don’t learn in school – and told you why California doesn’t make me happy.
Or rather not happIER, as….
... the atmosphere here is so full of happiness that it is sometimes almost over the top.
The children and I have a nice, harmonious, relaxed, joyful and above all funny time from morning to night.
I am surrounded by 4 teenagers who basically don’t do anything but eat, lie on the beach, surf, eat, goof off, run on the beach, eat, sing, watch Netflix in bed together with me and snuggle, goof off again, walk the dog, eat, stroll around San Francisco, eat there and goof off (Noelle’s words today: “If you aren’t able to dance in public you are not really free.”, so guess what we all did in Macy’s.) and later immediately eat again.
(There seems to be an obvious relation between eating and goofing off, don’t you think? Don’t you?!)
Shortly afterwards Pauline noted that, if you are really free, you’d have to sing at the top of your lungs in public, too.
And guess what we all did…
AND I CANNOT EVEN SING!
And even if you cannot be here in person (which is a good thing, as I can’t possibly buy even MORE food!), I am convinced that our combined joie de vivre is so strong that it spills over into the furthest corner of Southern Baden and will catch you full on.
Or to Lower Bavaria.
Or wherever my readers happen to be at the moment.
This is my magical superpower – apart from being able to always recognize the most expensive thing in a store without checking the price tag.
Yes, I can!
Love,
Joanna
P.s.
My advice for any parent stuck in a tiresome toddler phase right now, contemplating giving away their loudly screaming offspring to any old passer-by for free:
Don’t do it!
Once they are fully-grown you’ll regret that you didn’t have at least 5 of them.
Honestly!
To those who had at least 5 of them:
GOOD DECISION.
... the atmosphere here is so full of happiness that it is sometimes almost over the top.
The children and I have a nice, harmonious, relaxed, joyful and above all funny time from morning to night.
I am surrounded by 4 teenagers who basically don’t do anything but eat, lie on the beach, surf, eat, goof off, run on the beach, eat, sing, watch Netflix in bed together with me and snuggle, goof off again, walk the dog, eat, stroll around San Francisco, eat there and goof off (Noelle’s words today: “If you aren’t able to dance in public you are not really free.”, so guess what we all did in Macy’s.) and later immediately eat again.
(There seems to be an obvious relation between eating and goofing off, don’t you think? Don’t you?!)
Shortly afterwards Pauline noted that, if you are really free, you’d have to sing at the top of your lungs in public, too.
And guess what we all did…
AND I CANNOT EVEN SING!
And even if you cannot be here in person (which is a good thing, as I can’t possibly buy even MORE food!), I am convinced that our combined joie de vivre is so strong that it spills over into the furthest corner of Southern Baden and will catch you full on.
Or to Lower Bavaria.
Or wherever my readers happen to be at the moment.
This is my magical superpower – apart from being able to always recognize the most expensive thing in a store without checking the price tag.
Yes, I can!
Love,
Joanna
P.s.
My advice for any parent stuck in a tiresome toddler phase right now, contemplating giving away their loudly screaming offspring to any old passer-by for free:
Don’t do it!
Once they are fully-grown you’ll regret that you didn’t have at least 5 of them.
Honestly!
To those who had at least 5 of them:
GOOD DECISION.
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