one monday ago, on a warm, well-lit evening, our dear friend nicole came and watched ramona so jp and i could celebrate my birthday w a night out on the town (or at least the lohi neighborhood). we had an excellent evening and i’d suggest the following things on your own lower highland date night:
- start w cocktails at williams & graham (old fashioned for him, original st. germain for me)
- walk down the hill and over the pedestrian bridge to sushi sasa. sit at the chef’s counter and order omakase.
- walk back up the hill via the 15th street bridge to linger for a night cap. everyone goes wild for the roof-top patio but i think the bar is a far sexier place.
- p.s. a shout-out to secondlove who just keeps getting better and better. the blouse and jeans i’m wearing are recent purchases from there.
dear ramona,
work it out, girl.
i love you and all the great faces you make doing whatever you do. love, mama.
a portrait of ramona, once a week, every week, in 2013. inspired by jodi’s project.
thinking of how to include your little one in some last minute mother’s day love? buy watercolor paints ($4.50 at your local art supply store), grab some heavier weight paper, and get to painting! ramona and max had a riot pointing to the color on the palette that they wanted to use (and i would speak it back to them), and then taking their turns w the brush and making their mark. i’ll cut the paper in quarters and write a note on the back to send to the mama’s in our life. easy peasy lemon squeezy. and the kids got to flex their artistic muscles AND learn color names in the process.
elsewhere on the interwebs (i gotta lot for you this week!):
- remember my post on the korean bath house? you’ve GOTTA read sarah’s take on it. hilarious!
- if you haven’t yet shopped at everlane then you must get on it. now.
- new sponsor on the blog: girl in the pjs. one of my faves!
- another great idea for a mama’s day gift.
- a complete and concise list of denver free days.
- five tips for eating out with a toddler.
- the Scared is scared. an adorable video about a story told by a six-year-old.
- i seriously have the coolest friends: my dear friend, christian, a woodworker in nashville.
- lots of new babies (either arrived or soon!) in my family and community. a poem i’ll be passing onto every mother: the only thing you remember is your life, by pablo neruda that speaks so perfectly to the experience.
- elizabeth smart on abstinence-only sex education.
for someone who’s hated brunch in the past (at least working it: the dynamic of diners is completely different than dinner service. these sleepy, hungry, grumpy people want their food NOW!), we sure have been going out to brunch as a family a lot. it’s a nice start to our weekend. we don’t have to cook, our kitchen doesn’t have to get messy, and we get to do some R&D by trying out great new places popping up in the denver/boulder food scene (the universal, linger, sassafras are our recent favorites).
so after our hunger-inducing sunday hike at sanitas, we decided to try SALT. we found a quiet corner table looking out on pearl street and settled in. pictured above are the margarita special (it was cinco de mayo, after all), chilaquiles, odell’s ipa, and the tom’s tavern burger that jp and i ordered. everything was scrumptious! ramona got the kids’ mac and cheese, which we may or may not have helped her eat bc it was so so good. we finished up w doughnuts, which i can confidently speak for ramona when i say they were her favorite. (btw: someone in denver or boulder NEEDS to open up a decent doughnut shop. pretty please!)
not to mention, the service was fantastic. the young lady knew her food, treated us warmly, and engaged sweetly w ramona. what a great spot this is!
looking to dine in boulder? my suggestions for dinner spots are: basta (our personal favorite), oak at fourteenth, pizzaria locale, the kitchen (all of them), frasca (if you’ve got the moola). we look forward to going back and trying SALT for dinner. what other spots must we try?
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