I read a blog by John Paul Caponigro. He had a post on color memory. He showed this color:



Then he showed how his students fared in matching that color from memory (all at the original post.

I thought I'd give that green a try:



Came fairly close, IMO, a bit less saturated and lighter. Next step is to try that with a bunch more colors.

Wilma

It's a sad day for Apeldoorn. It's normally a nice and friendly town. The surroundings are beautiful. I grew up there, it was a wonderful place to grow up. I was just there, on a visit to Opa, with Kate. We'd actually tried to get a flight for this time, so we could enjoy the Queen's day festivities, but the cost of plane tickets was a lot higher than I wanted to pay.

New York Times: Royal Family Target of Car Attack in Netherlands Some lunatic ran his car through barricades, possibly aiming for the bus that was transporting the royal family. He missed the bus but injured several people and killed five.

For 5 years I drove by that monument on my way to high school. When Mike visited the Netherlands for the first time, we stayed at the hotel overlooking that intersection. Kate took her first serious walking steps there, I remember that vividly.

I'm glad my sister (who was watching the parade) was a very safe distant away.

It's that time in my life again ... I need to consciously make a commitment to work on my weight. Only 4 or 5 years ago (before I got pregnant) I had just lost 99 lbs and looked and felt great. I'm embarrassed to admit that most of that weight is back again. It's obvious that this is not going to come off by just "kind of" keeping an eye on things.

When I was on my trip to the Netherlands I didn't watch what I ate at all, and actually gained quite a bit in those 4 weeks. I kept thinking "I'll work on it when I get home". It's so much harder with a family, especially when you have a skinny kid and stepkids.

What worked for me last time was just simply telling everyone that I was going to do it. I didn't want to fail in front of the eyes of the world. So here it is: I'm going to modify my eating habits and activities habits in order to become healthier and lose weight.

There ya go.

Kate and I had a lovely uneventful (albeit extremly full and busy) flight back home. We met some really great high school kids on the flight. They'd just been to Malawi for 2 weeks, to help build a school. I think it was through Build On. What an experience!

Kate practically jumped straight up into daddy's arms when she saw him at the airport, so sweet, it brought tears to my sappy eyes.

We had a small dinner at home, with just the kids and Kate's big brothers took care of prepping the Easter egg hunt.

Our trip was quite boring, especially if you compare it to my friend Kim's long journey about which she blogged.

Finally ... she's wearing the dress and I have my camera handy. But she has severe mamarazzi issues ... "STOP TAKING PICTURES MAMA!"

It was Opa's 75th birthday, and she was excited about wearing her party dress for the birthday party. Birthdays in the Netherlands are an open invitation for friends and family to come to your house, eat cake, drink some and in general have fun.

Kate insisted on balloons, so we got some ... just for Opa.

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