Family, friends, innocent bystanders! Welcome to the Floating Harveys blog!
We're new to this sort of thing, but thought with all the random craziness that we create and encounter in our lives that we should find an easy (read: design-free!) way to share. Yes, we're ready to accept that by starting this we create an expectation that we'll KEEP IT GOING (Grandparents: please know that you'll soon be given a tutorial on how you too can contribute to this thing--the nature of a blog--and rule one will be that "Why haven't you posted lately?" will not be allowed!). We promise to commit to this. Someday we'll hopefully all look back and be thankful that I forgoed my "sympathy nap" this sunday afternoon and decided to try this out.
Perhaps for those concerned I should give a snapshot of where we are at this moment in time. We need a CHAPTER ONE to this saga. These will most certainly be the ongoing themes of this blog.
1. THE FLOATING HARVEY. We're expecting our second child, a little girl, to arrive in August. Jenn is healthy and happy and has started knitting booties (a sure sign of the onset of the nesting urge).
2. JOHN QUALITY HARVEY. Just turned two. What a spitfire. He's currently supposed to be napping, but is instead yodelling and playing with his trucks in his crib. Jack is a pretty cool kid (though definitely starting his terrible twos). Current vocabulary (in order of frequency): NO, MAMA, DADA, BALL, BYE-BYE, UH-OH, TWO, GO, TRUCK, ORANGE, CHOO-CHOO, BUS, BLUE, BUBBLE, CRACKER, AGUA, MAS, UP, KICK, HI, BIKE, SHOES, PURPLE, DOOR, DOG, HOME, the letter O, and the letter S.
3. OUR FLOATING HOME. We are currently in construction on our new home, a houseboat. The boat is being pre-fabricated in a warehouse in southern California and will be shipped up to Sausalito around the first of May and craned onto our concrete barge. When the tide is right the home will be floated into it's berth and we'll move in.
4. THE TASTEMAKER. Jenn has been building a new program for Andronico's Market (a northern California gourmet grocery store chain) where customers can sample new products and recipies. This is the ultimate intersection of all her past pursuits (food, marketing, theater) and she's really excited about it.
5. HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND BARS, OH MY! I am presently simultaneously creating around 25 new hospitality businesses in my role as creative director for Joie de Vivre, a San Francisco based boutique hotel chain. Every one is a different concept and they are located in some pretty cool places throughout California (Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Venice Beach...). This year promises to be filled with opening parties and strange hyjinx (these are the positive biproducts).
Please tune in often and make abundant comments. We wish that we could have each and every one of you strapped on to this rocket with us, but this is the next best thing.
OK! Onward!
Sincerely,
MH
