Matilda started a new year at her pre-school today. Here is her photo from first day of school! (photo from last year here) Here are some photos from our summer vacation.

We just got back from 25 day trip to Spain! Matilda and Mateo had an amazing time playing with our family in Spain. Traveling with the kids was grueling. Heck, just driving to JFK is hard enough but then we had to endure an 8 hour flight to Barcelona (thank you Delta for the free [...]

Matilda loves Horton Hears a Who. We bought the audio book to listen to in the car and she nearly has it memorized. If you don’t know the story, its about Horton the elephant who has great hearing and is able to detect a world of people living on a dust speck. He protects them [...]

Mateo loves watermelon! Some pictures. Check Flickr for more pictures!

Photos of Matilda from Father’s Day. We had a BBQ at home. Matilda provided the entertainment. Hope you all had a good Father’s day!

Someday, I will do a real kitchen renovation. (And I already know who I want to hire to do it!). For now, I am working within my budget which means new paint and tile instead of the vinyl floor. Before: After: We also did a new bathroom floor and vanity and installed some new hardware. [...]

I love IKEA. You can’t beat the prices and I think their reputation for low quality goods is undeserved. Many of the items we bought at IKEA  has held up quite well in comparison to furniture that I we bought at Crate and Barrel. And the design is wonderful. Even though we can afford to [...]

Matilda was introduced to Disney princesses when she was 20 months old by her older cousin. At the time, she was fascinated by the dolls and later the dresses. I decided that I would not fight back against it and let her have her princess dolls, sheets, and books. After all, I liked princesses back [...]

Pablo and I have a design company called Hanee Designs. We generally do not do any marketing as all of our work comes via word of mouth and we have more than we can handle. But blogging for the family has been so much fun that I decided that I need to blog for the [...]

Pablo got me a new light fixture for mother’s day! Before After Its called a Nelson Saucer Lamp. The design is by American designer George Nelsen. It was designed in in 1947 and is part of the permanent collection of the MoMA. I love the way it goes with my mid-century design chairs!