Home Sweet Home. We’re back in San Diego after a very long trip back home from Aruba. Two, almost-five-hours-each, flights. With a couple hour layover in Atlanta. With a four year old, but she did great. Braids and all. She’s the only four year old who has the Delta 10 minute safety video nearly memorized word for word, complete with being able to gesture where the four rear exits and four front exits and the two exits over the wings are located. Not kidding.
After being awake 24+ hours at this point, two suitcases that I unpacked, a midnight grocery run for some produce, and fruit that I was chopping at 2am so that tomorrow gets off to a semi-normal start, and oh yes, sleep to get, the best I can do is show these beautiful calla lilies that I saw on our last day at the beach in Aruba. Same day as Skylar’s braid session.
I love calla lilies! I saw these as we were walking across the Hyatt hotel’s parking lot and thought they were just gorgeous.
Just sitting there on a cart, in the blazing hot, midday sun and 90F weather + humidity.
A woman told me they were being delivered for an event.
It’s kind of sad that after the event they were probably just discarded, but hey, at least I got a few pictures of them.
And I’m sure everyone at the event enjoyed them while they lasted.
Such delicate, beautiful flowers! To me, they scream “Wedding Flowers” or fancy bridal shower flowers. I wouldn’t know. My “wedding flowers” were of the plastic variety but I am totally okay with that!
And in Operation Memory Stick cleanout, here’s another beach shot from our last day.
Hot and windy, tired but blissed out. A perfect day. One I will always remember!
I’m glad you enjoyed my last post, Blogging 103, and based on the comments, the discussion of self-hosted vs. free WordPress was helpful as was purchasing your own domain name.
Stay tuned for Blogging 104 in the near future, and fill me in on any additional topics you’d like me to address in addition to what I mentioned I’d likely discuss.
And now, for the comforts of home:
1. My own bed! Not that my bed in Aruba isn’t “my own” since I do own my house there but my bed in San Diego is far more comfortable and I can’t wait to climb into it!
2. A shower with American-level water pressure.
3. My DVR and a whole bunch of Real Housewives and mindless E! Channel shows waiting for me. After the laundry, unpacking, mail sorting, grocery running, back-to-work, back-to-real-life flow, happens.
4. My iMac desktop. Even though I want to toss it out the window and get a new one, the bigger screen size is just so much better than my Macbook.
5. Being able to talk on the phone. We have a cell phone in Aruba that we use and do have ways to call that USA that aren’t horribly expensive, and yes, there’s Skype and email, but just picking up the phone and making a 30 second call without having to think about it is nice.
6. My Vita-Mix. The Magic Bullet was fine for smoothies, but it’s no Vita.
Oh yes, I also have a stash of Fudgy Nutella Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting waiting in the freezer.
And I am going to dig into them the minute I hit publish! A major Comfort of Home!
Questions:
1. Do you like calla lilies? Or what is your favorite flower?
I love them and actually have a flower post coming up with tons of Caribbean flowers I saw. I really like lilies, sunflowers, of course roses are beautiful, and so are hibiscus, Bird of Paradise, and all kinds of lovely flowers that I don’t even know their “proper” names.
2. What are your comforts of home?
3. Any weekend plans?
I hope you all have something lovely planned for the weekend.
It’s back to work for me. And laundry, and mail and parcel sorting, errands to run, and just trying to re-establish a flow after our trip.
TGIF though!
Welcome home :) What a tan you have got ;)
My comforts of home is:
-My food! Really important :) Even after only a few days away from my own food, I miss it so much! I always bring some things with me (like nutbutters, and chocolate), but I want all of it :)
-My bed! I LOVE my bed!
-And I love that my appartment is so central in Oslo!
oh the best thing you said was that your DVR has a whole bunch of E! and real housewives shows taped! oh theyre so good I could watch for hours! those and also sex and the city!
i am so glad you had a great time in aruba! now back to the american level water pressure :)
I’m actually not a huge fan of flowers. I think they are pretty, but my husband knows not to buy them for me. I’m not a fan of getting a present that dies. I have some fake flowers on our dining room table, and that’s good enough for me!
I love getting to sleep in my own bed again and basically just be around my stuff! It sounds so superficial, but I like my stuff, lol.
The best comforts of home are cuddling up on the couch and drinking some warm tea :) and those Nutella brownies are making me hungry– they look really good.
Calla Lillies are my absolute favorite flower ever. They are just gorgeous. Beautiful!
You know my weekend plans…not really looking forward to it, but it is what it is. I’ve got some fun plans on the way…two weeks from now, I’ll be settling into a new house!!
Welcome back, chica!
Safety briefing memorized at 4? Great, she can help in case of an emergency ;)
Like the picture of you & Skylar on your last day at the beach in Aruba. Once again you are keeping it real.
Glad you all made it home safely, even if a little exhausted.
last comment…admiring what bloggers do and still live our lives..thank you for knowing this, Beth!
and yes, always REAL.
Welcome home!!! Trips are great, but coming home to your own bed is always SO nice!! :-)
coming home is always sweet… your own bed, your own stuff, that’s the only thing that keeps me smiling coming home after a wonderful holiday! plus, now that I am a Vitamix owner, I completely get how you would miss it! I’ve been using it every single day since I bought it :)
I love stocking up on groceries when I get home too, feels good to start from scratch!
My weekend is starting off on a fabulous note, I’m off to the spa with my mom today! 3+ hour spa date, I’m SO looking forward to unwinding after a ridiculous, crazy, stressful week at work…
Guess what I made this morning? Something for you! Mailing it off later today :)
I love going on a holiday but I also love coming home, sleeping in my own bed, sitting in my own garden, watching a movie in our own couch…
It’s funny, when I saw those lillies, they made me think of weddings too, immediately. I adore freesias, wonderfull flowers, but poppies too, because they’re so wild and have this thin paperlike leaves:)
thanks for linking me in your post on your site…i popped over there last nite but too tired to comment.
Wow. I admire your midnight run to the store!
Your daughter is beautiful!
I love being home. There is nothing like sleeping on your own bed and pillow.
This weekend I need to get caught up on laundry and ironing … so behind
nothing to admire…it was either that or don’t eat. lol
1. I loveeeeee peonies – like it’s borderline wrong how much I love them. I wanted them as my wedding flower, but since they bloom in spring, and I got married in October, the timing didn’t work out :( I told the hubby that if we get remarried it’s going to be in May so I can have peonies! haha
2. My comforts of home are just being in my own space, using all my own things. I’m so hard with change, that it’s always nice to come back to what you know!
3. No work this weekend (I worked the past 4 weekends in a row!) so farmers market is a MUST tomorrow morning and maybe a hike!!!
oh i’d say that calla lilies are one of my favorites!! they’re so simple and beautiful! as for comforts of home, there’s quite a bit ~ my list looks pretty much the same as yours, but i would have to add my dog in there ;) have a wonderful week-end averie ;)
xo~ kristina
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I always hate to think about flowers being wasted after an event. While I am not yet ready to be done with vacation, there are a few things I’m really missing from home: my bed, my pillow, my shower, my furbabies.
I love calla lilies — they are so simple but I think that is what I like about them.
Comforts of home: definitely my bed and my pillow! And everything else: the food I keep there, having everything near by, and my bathrooms — I am much more comfortable at home than anywhere else, so I love to come home!
Weekend plans: another wedding to attend tomorrow, it is outside at a winery so hopefully the weather cooperates.
It’s always nice to come home after a long trip. My bed never compares to anything on the road.
Orchids are my fav but calla lillies are a close second.
Glad you made it home safe! SO awesome that your little lady does so well with traveling. The callas are gorgeous. I am a big fan of them as well- such an elegant flower. Plans for the weekend? A little up in the air. Hoping to get in a few good workouts, relaxing& a date night with Josh