Pancaking

Lawry is the pancake flipping master in our apartment.  So, in honor of his special skills--we celebrated National Pancake Day with ABrown's buttermilk pancakes!  Michele Norris wanted in on the fun, but she is a dog.

Breakfast for Dinner fo Life,
Mals

Hot Husband

There are things Lawry does that I call his "Hot Husband" things.  Building a fire is one of them and one of my personal favorites for the list because it's literally hot.  But he went on and added a bit o extry fun with lumberjacking shirt.

In other world-upside down turning news... UT Austin said "Hook 'em" to Lawry.  WHAT?! We thought he was rejected!  As it turns out, UT sent him an email at 6 am a few weeks back that started with "Unfortunately..." or "at this time we cannot..."  Still on a Vandy acceptance high, he didn't finish reading it.  The other half of the email stated he was le waitlisted, not rejected.  Long story short, Austin, you're in the top three.  WHOA.

Counting the days to Spring Breaky,
Malsina

This weekend

We spent some good time with Lawry's padres and we did a little DIY work on the junk we've bought at the ReStore, Goodwill etc.  One man's trash...

This is a little Instagram hipstertastic photograph I titled, "Crap in the Woods," cause it's us, painting all our junk... in the woods behind our apartment

Still grading,
Mals-a-roo

White Butler is really into it

Dear SNL,

Last night? Yes.



The Lawster and I are still laughing and doing impersonations of Kristen Wiig impersonating T. Swift.

Breathless OMG's,
Mals

THIS.

I love to listen to Bon Iver on rainy or cold days--it just matches.  But, not in a mopey sad way, just in a matchy way(?)...

Okay,
Mals

The Ides of February

Lawry's newest lawyer nickname? The Lightsaber.  But, where will he be receiving his lawyering training?

Well, we don't know yet, but there are more possibilities on the table!  I quite literally mean the table, that's where all the acceptance letters are gathered.

Also, today one of my students asked me if my duct tape was sticky.  They had been to an assembly on abstinence that morning (I work in a small-town; the superintendent prayed for us once at a training day thing).  It was weird.  Then, they remembered I'm married and it was still weird.  Oh, my kiddos.  They say everything that comes to their brain, filtering ability is still on the low end.

Toward the end of class, the same student asked if was going to share this story with my husband--I think she was a little embarrassed when I told her that I tell him all the funny things they say.

Oh, ALSO, I overheard two boys in one of my classes whispering about which one would deserve to be my Valentine.  I just kept on lecturing and ignored it completely--awkward.

Cannot wait for February and lovey stuff to be over,

Malsi J

When in Rome

Or when married to a native Spanish speaker, Lawry has to do this to all the things in our apartment.

It's like our apartment turned into a large language flashcard.

Feliz día del amor y la amistad!

Besos,

Zambrano-Welch 

Winning=cookies with cheap(er) M&M's I bought after Halloween on clearance

Winninger=Home Group Italian dinner and mafia night complete with character names and elaborate backstories.  I'm working on my character's life story.  I'm thinking barmaid, I'm thinking she's originally Ukrainian.  But I'm also thinking gypsy bike tour guide by day, and Italian women's soccer team dancer by night (thank you Ms. Fey for the inspiration).  The name was an easy decision--Malsina.  Thank you PC.  I'm thinking Lawry should go with Lorenzo.

Winningest=Baking and cooking with mi mamá this weekend.

Excited/nervous about the upcoming life decisions,
Zamby-Welchy

Nashvillians?

Dear Lawry,

You impress me.

Love,

Wife

Dear Vandy Law School,

Your FedEx'd acceptance package is EXCITING!  

Dear Wake Forest, U of H, and George Washington,

Thanks for accepting Lawry, we're REALLY excited about all the different possibilities we could have at each of your schools!  Now, offer us some (more) scholarships!

Dear BU, SMU, IU, et al.,

Could you step up your acceptance game?  We're waiting and we're getting less good at this whole patience thing, which you could basically take to mean that you're making us sin.  I don't think that's a stretch.

Dear Lawry (again),

You will be the cutest lawyer ever.  That's something lawyers aspire to be, right?

Errybody's Working for the Weekend

And what a great weekend it was... with M&M cookies, visiting parents, lots of good seafood, and a dash of tornadic activity.  Oh yes, and we can't forget little sleeping Ewok doggies.  Michele Norris has us so spoiled.  Well, blog posts are on the way--a old window re-vamping/headboard project is near completion, lots of exciting Lawry the Lawyer news, and some other stuff!

Grading papers til Kingdom come,
Zambrano-Welch

I'm working on owning the hyphen instead of feeling like I'm imposing my feminism on others.  Hear the hyphen roar!