ZimWex Family Blog

A Night Out.

Last night was a pretty big night! The US premiere of Hysteria at the Tribeca Film Festival.

So we got all gussied up....

We started at a work dinner for Tanya, where I tried to catch my outfit in the bathroom mirror!

We got to the red carpet and accompanied our kids down the red carpet for the first time...

Nice shoes!

We watched Tanya charm the press...

And then I captured this shot of my two glamorous pre-teens.

And got a shot with me as well!!

Then the real fun began...we got to watch Hysteria with 900 other enthusiastic audience goers.  Way to go, my love. I am, as they say around these parts, kvelling!  

AZ

Violet En Vogue::10

This week, I am focusing not on the outfit, but on this signature hairdo.

AZ

This Moment.

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week.  A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

Mexico 3:: Resort Life

So, when you sit around a resort all week, without taking in much culture.....*

This is what you do!

You read...

You swim...

You show off your summer fashions...

You are brave...

You drink...

You look at the sky...

You spend time together...

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You also fight with your siblings, get grumpy over trying new foods (Even when financially motivated!), really, really, really complain about putting on sunblock, bitch that your wife is working too much, spend time in the Playa del Carmen hospital, administer vile-tasting antibiotics, and try to figure out who hit who first.  Those things just don't make quite as cute pictures.  But they all happen, too.

All in all, I'll take the package.

AZ

*Hot Mayan Ruins aside....

Violet En Vogue:: 9

Tie Dye, Floral, and yes, plaid (the pants...hard to spot at first...)

AZ

This Moment.

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week.  A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

AZ

Violet en Vogue:: 8

This one is all about the knee socks.

A girl of adventure...

I got to attend Ruby's 2nd Grade Publishing Party last week.

Below is the text of her latest story...Not at all lacking in imagination!

"Lucky lived in a mountain with her mom, dad, two sisters, and a brother.  She lived a peaceful life, but also, Lucky is a girl of adventure.  She's gone to every place you can think of right now.  But there is one place she didn't go: NYC! She really really really really really wanted to go to NYC. Tomorrow she can go!

She packs and packs, then goes to bed.  In the morning she put her luggage and a zipline on her g-i-a-n-t giant flying c-a-t cat, Then she jumped on her cat and was off!  She saw a lot of buildings.  then...she was hovering over Manhattan. She smelled hot dogs. She saw pretzels.  She saw cars zooming by.

Plop! Lucky and her cat landed in Central Park! Lucky got into a boat nearby and she rode and rode.  The she saw a duck.  She docked her boat and chased after the duck.  Then she crashed into a bush in the z-o-o zoo.  Click! She was locked in!!

Then she remembered she had clipped the zip line to her belt. Then she said "excuse me, sorry for chasing you." "That's ok" said the duck.  "Can you fly out and tie one end of the line to the tree near the giant cat?"asked Lucky.  "Sure" said the duck.

The duck flew out and tied the rope to the tree. Then Lucky zipped across.  Then she leaped on her cat.  A cat named Kala with a  giant head. Lucky took Kala home. She knew that she couldn't keep Kala because she kept trying to eat her goldfish.  So she donated her to Julie Case, her detective friend."*

She then does a tie-in with her friend Polly's book about a girl detective...

She made a little clay figure of Lucky (who I think is so very cool).

But this girl is cooler...

Proud of my girl.**

AZ

*Okay, so it doesn't really end.

**And wishing I could buy her a portable clip-on zip line.

I Used to Dance Around The Living Room...*

Just another day in the family room...

There is something about watching the unbridled joy, the utter lack of self-consciousness**, and the complete artistic devotion to her dance that I hope never fully goes away...***

Love this girl.

AZ

*Can't resist a showtune title

**and sometimes lack of dance skillz

***Although, if it NEVER goes away, she may end up dancing a bit like Elaine on Seinfeld...

Right Now

I am...

Helping Ella make her costume for today's Egyptian tomb presentation at school.  There are robes, belts, chokers, and lots of eyeliner...

Nagging Jerry to finish working on his tabloid newspaper about The Red Scare and the Crucible.

Amazed at what he can do on the computer, graphics wise.  My children's knowledge of how to make things look professional on the computer FAR surpasses my own....

Cuddling  up on the couch with Ella to watch American Idol, which we have long since embraced.

Rooting for Jessica Sanchez.*

Wondering how she made such a spectacularly bad song choice this week.

Wishing I had a wardrobe (and body) like J Lo's.

Planning our trip to Mexico Sunday. Back to the Mayan Riviera!

Worrying that somehow Ella's passport will not be rush renewed tomorrow.

Chastising myself for finding myself in this position yet again. How many times do I have to miss the expiration of my kid's passports before I learn the lesson?

Marvelling that this is the TENTH time I have applied for a passport for one of my children.

Unwrapping  a honey lemon Ricola cough drop for the cold I appear to be getting.

Staring at the three parking tickets I got this week and thinking about paying them.

Delivering Girl Scout Cookies. Forever.

Smiling as I finished Reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to Ruby tonight. 

Certain that my Harry Potter accents are better than ever.

Reconsidering my afternoon cappucino. Could I do without it?

Awaiting Tanya's return home from London after a week.

Accepting that I am unlikely to get a pedicure prior to my trip.

What are you all up to right now?

AZ

*And Erika Van Pelt..that girl has a cool voice!