The Prince and His Shortalls

How adorable was Prince George at his first televised play date.  Stealing toys from babies, getting excited about receiving a huge teddy bear, snuggling with his Duchess mother, and those smocked shortalls. . .

The Prince's shortalls were designed by British designer Rachel Riley.  If you snag a pair, please do let me know, because I imagine they are beyond sold out by now. 

I scoured the internet for outfits similar to the Prince's.  It was pretty near impossible to find similar items in navy, but I did find some cute alternatives.

The Cherry Cast

Drawing obtained via Washington Post

Happy Monday.  Researchers at the University of Washington and Korea have predicted that this year's peak bloom date for Cherry Blossoms is April 10 otherwise known as this Thursday.

The Washington Post has a great page that aggregates all the photos of Cherry Blossoms in the region.  You see, you don't have to brave the crowds at the Tidal Basin to see these pretty blossoms.  It sure is a fun thing to do though.

Here's a link to all the Cherry Blossom Festival activities. The festival ends April 13th, but hopefully the blossoms will endure for a little while longer. 

Opening Day (Happy Friday)

Photo of Opening Day at Wrigley Field, 2010 via NPR

Spring is here weather or not Mother Nature is ready.

I heard this great piece on NPR this morning about Opening Day at Wrigley Field.  It really made me long for when I lived in Chicago.  Add taking a day off from work to go to Opening Day to your bucket list!

I really want to go to the Holi Festival in Potomac this weekend, but given the fact that I have a 9 month old it's going to be a game-day decision.

If that doesn't work out then I think we will head over to the District Flea Market.

The Cherry Blossom Festival is well underway and this Sunday is the half-marathon. 

Hoping to have the time to make this Moroccan Baked Fish with Onions along with a Ginger Grapefruit Curd and this Red Fruit Salad.

I still don't have access to my Facebook account.  Here's to hoping it will be restored.

THE BADGERS MADE IT TO THE FINAL FOUR!!!!!!!  If I don't to anything else for the next 72 hours, I'm watching Saturday's game in real time.





Photo of Wrigley Field, October 1935 via NPR

If a Tree Falls in the Woods (On Losing My Facebook Account)

I took this really cute photo of my daughter in a Bucky Badger hat and a red sweatsuit.  She was cheering the Wisconsin Badgers onto victory against the American University Eagles.  The Badgers won!  You probably know about the victory but chances are you don't know about the adorable photo because I no longer have access to my Facebook account. 

Facebook deactivated my account on March 18.  On that morning I tried to log into my account and a message popped up that it had been deactivated for violating Facebook's terms of service.  Since then, I have tried to contact Facebook repeatedly.  In spite of my attempts to contact Facebook, I still don't have my access to my account and I still don't know why my account was disabled.

Losing my Facebook account has been a bit of an existential crisis for me.  For the past six years www.Facebook.com/karolina (yes I was able to snag a wonderful URL) was the place where I interacted with friends, family, and colleagues.   It was where I announced my move to Washington, my engagement, and the birth of my daughter.  It is also the place where I put up carefully curated photos of family gatherings, my wedding, and most recently my daughter's first year. I've lost access to all my contacts and to these photographs.  At one fell swoop I lost the equivalent of my Rolodex, my most treasured photos, my email address, my telephone line, and my hard drive. 

So if your Facebook Account is deactivated, does anyone notice?  I can't create a status update to say, "Annoying day Facebook disabled my account."  I could tell the few friends I still google chat with or text, but my Facebook acquaintances probably just think I gave Facebook up for Lent.  Hopefully Facebook will come to it senses and give me my account back before then. 

A friend of mine from college (AKA my college boyfriend's roommate) went through a different but still aggravating Facebook problem and wrote about it HERE.  He's actually a paid writing professional (writer) so you will probably enjoy reading about his woes more than mine.

Have you lost your Facebook Account? If so, how did you get it back?

Spring Scarves



1. JCrew  2. Isabel Marant 3. Love Quotes 4. Forever 21 5. Aeropostale 6. Forever 21



 

Can I mention one more time that today is the first day of Spring.  In the Midwest this means a few more months of bitter cold weather, but in Washington the coming of Spring means great weather is on its way.  Here are some gorgeous spring scarves at several price points.  I already have #1, but I really want #2 and you can never have to many Love Quotes Scarves (#3).  

Happy Spring

Time to switch out your black ankle boots because in case you weren't keeping track Spring is here. 
It seems everyone including Google is singing from the rooftops about this.  How are you celebrating the coming of better weather? 

In other news, Facebook deactivated my account for reasons unknown, so I have no idea if anyone out there is even reading this.

Baby Girls (Hanna and Marnie)

I've been suffering from a little bit of insomnia lately.  Sleepless nights for Karo typically involve binge-watching television; and so, last week I binge-watched most of season 3 of Girls. My late night escapades got me thinking about what our favorite self-centered Brooklyn ladies would have worn as babies. 

Tonight I will focus on Marnie and Hanna.