dancing kitchen

welcome to my little corner. i'm kat. a 30 something in the bay area. i love fries, stripes and weekends.

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i love this.

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i’m not crying. nope, crying. 

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From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the old ones. Her own small bedroom now became her reading-room and there she would sit and read most afternoons, often with a mug of hot chocolate beside her. She was not quite tall enough to reach things around in the kitchen, but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted. Mostly it was hot chocolate she made, warming the milk in a saucepan on the stove before mixing it. Occasionally she made Bovril or Ovaltine. It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She traveled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

Roald Dahl, Matilda (via likeseventeen)

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Alison Chandra never expected to go viral for tweeting about her son’s medical bills — in fact, she never expected to be the mother of a child who needed so much medical care in the first place. But, with one viral tweetstorm she made it clear just how important the Affordable Care Act is to so many families. Read more (6/26/17)

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Happy Mother’s Day everyone! 

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@ me.

Via @eatbychloe on Instagram

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Tom Holland does Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle

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Holy shit

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i had to google “tom holland” and well now i know who is he is. dang. 

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it’s been a green couple of months...

new tomatoes (and one mint) bought. excited for summer and all the tomatoes to come (hopefully). i’m heading back to another plant sale this weekend to pick up some herbs. [our master gardeners in this county put on a fantastic sale every spring.] this is my third year planting tomatoes and i think - well i hope - i have more info and experience under my green thumb to produce a fruitful crop. 

we’ve seen more sunshine - finally! i have loved the rain and it’s brought some green to everything around us. including a newly found, a new favorite natural preserve. it’s got some sweet trails full of flowers, weird plants, animals and friendly neighbors. that’s been our weekend game, weeknights that find us with some lingering sunshine find us hitting the pavement around our house catching up before dinner. 

and the rain has done wonders on our garden that we sometimes neglect. my hot lips salvias are ALIVE with flowers which the hummingbirds have found. and my trusty sweet pea bushes are going crazy which needed a pruning + arranging as you can see in this photo. we also need to prune our trees and did you know how much pruning can be? it’s not cheap! 

dinner has shifted to the table from the couch and we’ve had fun choosing a relevant spotify playlist to what our dinner is. italian food? italian music. tacos? there’s a fun chips & salsa playlist. 

here’s to the weekend! 

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Vanessa Schmidt

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By @booksofadam

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#WomenWearWhite Members of congress wear white to honor the women’s suffrage movement and support women’s rights during President Donald Trump’s address to Congress.

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