The AMAZING Adventures Of The Flat Ls - Chapter 1

The Flat Ls meet WHY OAK!!!!

Holly crap, this is going to be a Best Seller!!!

The first chapter and we are already meeting super stars!

This post is presented by Uncle Sasch (my baby brother).

Sasch is a photographer in Germany (an amazing and successful one, if I may add).

I am so proud of my brother! 

He turned his love and hobby of photography into his profession and he is so darn good at it that within the first few years of his profession he has already made a name of himself.

He published a book, was in a few exhibitions and sold some of his art work to private buyers. 

He is now a traveling photographer, running his own show, taking pics of the rich and famous.

Sascha Eisentraeger, the future Ansel Adams of Germany ;)

He is also big into the music scene and when he is not busy snapping pictures he is rocking out at some concert or festival. 

So on his first day with the Flat Ls he snapped a pic of them with ...

Why Oak (click here for a music video)

from Baltimore, touring in Europe right now.

Why Oak after the show, with the Flat Ls!!!

The Ls saw the photo, watched the music clip and are just in AWWWW!!!

Thank you Sasch, we can't wait to see where you are taking us and what you are showing us and who we are meeting next ... (HINT-HINT!!!)

We LOVE you!!!

The AMAZING Adventures Of The Flat Ls

This is a new series for the world famous Necklac-Lee blog.
The Flat Ls are taking over the world :)

First and for most we need to thank and honor aunty Judy for the grand idea.
Flat Jay is making his way through the world and we very much enjoy following his trips (currently he is residing in Scotland).

So thank you aunty Judy and Jay-Jay for letting us join in on the fun!!

And now I better introduce the new Ladies on the Blog.
Ladies and gentlemen; presenting the Flat Ls, based on the story by Jeff Brown "Flat Stanley".

Stanley Lambchop is an ordinary boy.

At least he was, until the night his bulletin board fell off the wall and flattened him. 

At only half an inch thick, Stanley can slide under doors, mail himself across the country in an envelope, and fly like a kite!

And that's only the start of Stanley's adventures. 

In these four tales, Stanley also becomes invisible and helps nab some bank robbers, journeys to outer space to rescue aliens, and, after being rounded out, turns flat—again! 

One thing is for sure: There's nothing Stanley Lambchop can't do! (Amazon info)

The Making Of ...

Kiss on the heart to give her life ...

tada ...

Flat Lulu

Flat L

Flat L in evening attire

Lulu designing her gown

There are currently three sets of the Flat Ls swirming around.

Two reside in Hamburg (Germany), one with uncle Sasch and one with aunty Julia and one set of Flat Ls is in Olds (Canada) with GP, getting ready for a super cool fishing trip up North.

The 4th set is getting ready for their trip to Virginia to the FGF (Fairy God Family) ... better get ready guys!!! 

So stay tuned for The AMAZING Adventures Of The Flat Ls!!!

{this moment}

Sick!!!

My poor Lulu, day three of fever, no voice and feeling like SHIT!

I hope you feel better soon my little sunshine!

Mama Mia and the wardrobe

We still took the Ls to the long awaited event, despite Lulu's fever and her feeling so rotten and sick.
We have had tickets so see this for at least 8 months and we have been so excited to go and see it with the Ls.
Both, Pat and I have seen it (I think this was my 4th or 5th time) but we never have taken the Ls.

This was also the first full length performance they have been to.
All the other shows we have taken them to were either kids shows and kids matinees of regular performances.

So spiked with Motrin and Tylenol we dragged the little sick L and the VERY excited big L to see ...

Obviously the attire to see such a BIG event live and in color was quite important to the Ls.
Lulu had her dress long picked out ...

This was as much posing as she would tolerate.
Once L came into the picture she was quickly off and ran into Papa's warm and comforting arms.

L chose her dress just a few minutes before we had to leave ... too many choices and she was not so sure what look she was going for today :)
She chose Flower-Power, much to my liking!!!

I was going to braid-in some Daisies from the Garden, but we ran out of time in the end. She still looked so VERY pretty in that dress (Savers $3.99 .... seriously!!!) and with her hair braided like that.

This was the beginning of a very fun outing.

The take from it is:

1. It's better to go with two healthy kids!
2. A four year old does not understand what a "live performance" is. When Pat buckled her up in the car and said "Ready to see the show?" Lulu answered "Is it going to be in 3D?"
3.  Lulu is not quite ready for the long shows but L totally is. She was just staring in AWWW at the stage and performers.
4. A six year old gets quite confused when she hears "I have three possible dads ..." (Sophie's line) and "Mom did dot-dot-dot with them". The Lady in front of us just turned around, laughing very hard and said "Good luck explaining that mom!" 
5. A six year old does not understand that a show is NOT real. When Donna argues on stage with one of the "possible dads" L just screamed "Why are the fighting? He didn't do anything to her!" I whispered that they had a fight many years ago and she was still sad about and L answered "Oh, he must have said a bad word to her or not shared with her if she is still mad at him. "When Sophie walks away with her boyfriend Sky L looked at me and said "I NEVER leave you mama. Thats not nice that she goes without her mom. She'll cry when the show is over!"

Fun-fun-fun!!!

Now we are back on fever watch and I am almost sure that L will come down with it any minute too!
Better get some sleep ... it will be another long night ;(

Mama Mia / Party FEVER!

The CRAZY schedule for the WE:

Saturday: 2:00 PM "Mama Mia" musical in San Jose

afterwards race over to Emma's house for her big B-Day bash

Sunday: Family Skate at 5:00 AM, race home, change and then race over to Nimi's house to help set up for Maya's b-day bash and then party again

Last night: 11:00 PM, Lulu's temp is a whopping 103 ... 

There goes the planning!

Mama Mia is a GO (even if we have to dope her up) but everything else is CANCELED!
No worries Nimi, one of us will come and help set up, we just have to skip the party fun ;(

SORRY Emma and Hayden!!!
SORRY Maya!!!

BUMMER!!!

Stay At Home Mom

So many times I feel somewhat inadequate or like I am not a real contributor to society and our household, since I don't have real employment, no career, nothing to brag about when we go out and meet people.
You go out and meet new folks and they ask you "And what do you do?" and I answer "I stay home with my girls" and I can see the "oh" expression in their face and the "oh she is one of those" attitude.

Then I look at my house, which is by far NO show home.
There are always and at any given time toys spread all over the house, at least 10 single socks in every corner of the house (probably some of Lulu's underpants too), there are dog toys everywhere (you most likely will fall over one of them at least once an hour), piles of fabric on my desk for projects that have been started but will take forever to be finished, laundry on the clothes lines outside and snack food everywhere (Lulu stashes stuff away for "bad times").

Not much success here either I guess.

I always thought that the proper Stay At Home Mom has the PERFECT house, perfectly groomed and clean dressed children that behave just perfectly and never, ever make a mess and are always charming and polite.
If you know the Ls .... that ain't us either.

So of course I feel like I am not doing my part, I am not succeeding at much and I am wondering if this is the beginning thought of every midlife crisis?

BUT then I stand there and see this ...

Just a regular weekday morning in the CZ household.

At 8:30 am we sit at the table and play with our breakfast smily faces and just have a blast.
The Ls get up at their leisure, eat a SLOW breakfast and then retreat to their room for play/fight time.

No rushing out of the house, no hurry and no stress (well besides the fighting maybe :)
And then I can sit at my computer and type up this quick post, just because it just popped into my mind and I really feel like I need to write this down.

And then I look at this ...

... and I feel like, I do have something to be proud of and to brag about.

I get to spend so much time with these little ladies and enjoy every second (mostly the fighting ones :) with them.

Because soon enough they will be too big and too "grown up" to goof around with their parents or to hang out with us and then I can withdraw from my "spending time with my Ls savings bank" and the memories I have of these fun moments.

My house may be no show home, my kids may walk around like hillbillies, the Dork is fearful of life itself, the cats are being traumatized by Oscar, the terrorist bird, and the hubby sometimes leaves the house with two not-matching socks BUT it's all worth it and I am so darn proud of the way we live our life.

So this email is a Thank You to my wonderful husband and the best father my girls could have, for making this all possible for us!

And now I need to go and clean up my "show home" :)

Lulu's outfit of the day

Oh how I LOVE it when my Issie dresses up!!!

Every morning when I help L to get ready for school Lulu disappears in her closet and comes out in the most craziest outfits ever to have come upon your eyes. 

Today I loved particularly the choice of high socks combined with the Ariel high-heels.

She ALWASY accessorizes, like today with the lila (purple) wrist band and her Mermaid bracelet and matching lila headband, na-course!

And she L-O-V-E-S to pose and dance on the street ... just make sure EVERYBODY notices her!

Love that part of my day ... always a surprise!

Don't love the look of her closet comes night time though.
Usually 80% of it's contents have been pulled out and spread out all over the room.

Her answer is: "It's not easy to choose the right outfit Mama!"

What would I do without my Ls? Life would be SO boring!!!