Showing posts with label happy things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happy things. Show all posts

Thursday, May 10, 2012

today





today has been filled with lots of funny and happy things...matt surprising me with him having the afternoon off // lots of orange // slow dancing and doing the frug to old ludacris // his and her outdoor work (and finally planting the collection of roses i discovered matt buying in the middle of the night off of QVC...catching him on the phone whispering with a QVC operator will forever be one of my favorite memories of him ) // bbq dinner out // ornery max and mimi // open window bedtime

hoping your thursday was a fine one! 
xoxo

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

happiness


happiness is: the first day of may//lemons and new candles and good smells//back from the dead roses blooming in the garden//yellow and sunshine for days//10 more weeks to go, sis//max singing our nightly ritual song, "dream a little dream of me", this morning knowing it makes me swoon...he's my mama cass//new packs of paper and tape//dairy queen

Dream a Little Dream of Me by Mama Cass on Grooveshark

happy may day, loves!

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

currently


currently loving---springtime in dayton, colorful stamps and pretty cards, the smell of freshly cut plywood (we started laying our family room floor this weekend!), wedge heels that make me feel me a tad bit taller and a little less of a waddler, max's obsession with tv personality tom bergeron (max sings songs about tom living in our hearts and under the moonlight...also, he makes me call him tom bergeron sometimes and, in turn, he calls me tom's wife, michelle...this is normal mother/son stuff, right?), my butternut squash-sized baby girl and all of her dancing about (hello, 3rd trimester!), kelly ann's music monday this week...i love discovering new music through her!

The Bird Song by Alessi's Ark on Grooveshark 

hoping your week is going so so fine! 


Friday, April 13, 2012

daily bits


 
happiest friday!!
this week has been baseballing with bubb, crib assembling (huzzah!), lots of painting and thrifting, ice cream sandwiches and sweaters and trying not to have too many meltdowns as we start checking things off of our baby to do list!

i laid in bed early this morning with a brain that wouldn't shut off...
it traveled from thinking about our birth plan to mapping out a obstacle course in the backyard for max's early birthday party come june...from wishing i had guacamole at that very moment to the logistics of breastfeeding to wondering what i would have done if i was on the titanic. all in a 5 minute span...oh dear.

things are getting wacky around here. 
wacky and full and filled with lots of good and happy things.

here's to a happy happy weekend, friends! 
xoxo

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

sway me like the sea

max was right. tuesdays are the kind of day that will love you back!
today has been warm sunshine and a spring-colored lunch/business meeting for one at my dining room table....sketching out to-do's and ideas and what-if's on a craft paper tablecloth. 

i love how the changing seasons can leave a girl feeling refreshed and motivated.
 
p.s. thank you so for the good words about my baby pains! they lifted me and lifted me all day yesterday! 
sis's progress email today said she can feel me dancing now...we've been swaying like the sea all morning and afternoon long. it's almost as good for the aches as smashing fruit. 

xoxo

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

hold the morning

these are happy days...

Marseilles by Hey Marseilles on Grooveshark

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

sunny sunny

i'm celebrating the last day of the month with open windows and shaved legs (well, the bottom half anyway..haha). no time for mourning the lack of snow to sled and snowman and angel with. today is for sun baths and dusting off shelves...taking pale legs out for a spin and flirting with this faux-spring a bit.

happy things today: i'm 17 weeks! baby is a turnip now...and i swear i feel a little squirm when i reach over or bend down // getting the best hug from max this morning...and getting pulled back into bed by matt for 5 extra minutes with my face tucked in his neck//  potential root beer floats and some lady time with a dear friend // wearing lots of red to match lots of sun...and finding old lady skirts at the goodwill that make space for my belly perfectly! //

happy last day of january! 

p.s. i've been loving seeing everyone's beautiful january photos from fat mum slim's photo a day challenge...i'm going to join for february! it kicks off tomorrow. 

good grief i can't believe how quickly the month went.
xoxo

Monday, January 23, 2012

happy monday things

 
//listening to max sing made up songs while he gets ready for school//finding a $20 couch at the salvation army and making it mine (now if i could only convince everyone that it isn't infested with fleas)//hearing baby's heartbeat again...now that's a swoony sound! (p.s. i accidentally flashed an old man in the parking lot after my appointment when a gust of wind met my dress...it was a sad sight)//making up with mimi the dog...we broke up for a few weeks after i caught her doing something terrible in the living room. oh dear//dinner plans with my mama and aunt...mom has been so sick and i haven't been able to be around her for weeks now. oh how i'm aching for a hug!

i hope your monday has been a pleasant one!
and if it hasn't been so much, at least you didn't subject a little old man to your wool tights pulled all the way up over a pregnant belly.
 
things are looking up!
happy monday!
xoxo

Thursday, September 8, 2011

apple dumpling

...finding color when the sun refuses to come out...
apple plaid, stamps, and chai tea.
happy thursday, friends!

p.s. a big thank you and hug to melanie from you are my fave for the mention of my blog today!
talk about sunshine on a cloudy day.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

color story

i hid myself away in the art store today. there's something about cloudy grey skies and the best kind of chilly air that make a girl's fingers itch for new rubber erasers ( i have an unhealthy addiction to hoarding erasers...and biting them, but that's another story). i let 7 year old katie fill my basket...and spoiled myself with some new brushes and paints and a box of charcoals. it was a little like christmas.
work has been especially exciting and inspiring lately. so many wonderful adventures on the horizon. i love how seasons overlap and change and bring about fresh ideas and new motivations...and plenty of erasers to stuff in my pockets.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

tie a ribbon around your finger

things have been the busiest they've been in months around here. you can definitely feel the summer pace fading away...and a good change and energy is in the air. list making season is almost here! i love writing out lists, usually on random slips of paper that will inevitably get lost. but i try not to make any major ones during the summer. she always feels too rebellious for something like that. i got my planner out for the first time since may yesterday and realized it's time! lists for work goals, school supplies, weekend getaways, baking and crafting schemes, costume ideas, house to-dos! this gal needs a new pen to celebrate!

today is a list making kind of day.

happy late summer things list:  the smell of new pencils and open packs of paper, county fairs as far as the eye can see, evening thunderstorms that water the garden for you, homemade zucchini bread, the scramble to fit in last minute summery things, brown shoulders and funny tan lines, sunflowers standing at attention, sundresses and cardigans, music mixes of grizzly bear, and sea wolf, and stevie wonder, the promise of fall.

what's on your lists this week?

Thursday, July 21, 2011

light breezes seems to whisper

it's taken me years of listening to myself to realize that i need a little solitude every now and again.
time with myself...my thoughts..the silence around me.
most times i find it in small ways...like in the morning when the boys are still asleep or while alone in the car on my way to and from places.
and sometimes i find it in deliberatly special ways.
sometimes i like to wine and dine myself.
get out the fancy glasses, pile up some strawberries on a cake plate, splurge on a new $1 crossword puzzle book and frosted animal crackers, find a place to stake my claim for an hour, and sit and just be.

i found myself in what seemed like my own little secret garden last night..fresh after an evening thunderstorm. i took pictures and watched the sun set and toasted to the brilliance that life can be...to my max who seems like worlds away...to the simple goodness of sipping through a paper straw or wringing out a rain-soaked hem.
and then i sat. and i listened.


eddie veder- dream a little dream

i hope you all can go stake a claim on an hour for yourself this week.
pull out all the stops for yourself...and don't forget the animal crackers.
<3

Monday, July 18, 2011

up, up, and away

there are exactly 3 things that have moved me beyond words in my life. 
you know the feeling when at that very moment you feel altered in some wonderful way...where something just did something to you...your soul feels a tad bit lighter...and that's as eloquent as you can describe it?

my first was seeing andy warhol's silver cloud room in pittsburgh...it made me lay on the ground and never want to get back up. the second is the wind turbines along interstate 70 in indiana. i hold my breath for each one.
the third happened saturday when my boys took me to see air balloons.

there's a festival each year outside of dayton where dozens of hot air balloons launch and compete.
we got there a few hours early to hula hoop and hunt down cotton candy and feel all nervous by the lack of hot air balloons. truly, not a one to be seen.
but then the sun started to set and before we knew it the sky was filled with baskets and the loveliest colors just floating away and becoming hazy little polka dots.

it was a real sight...i've never seen so many air balloons that closely before.
 and my goodness, did it do something to me.

i think this calls for some louis armstrong...


louis armstrong- la vie en rose
if i could tether one of andy's silver clouds and take it on an air balloon trip to indiana to see the wind turbines i might spontaneously combust.
<3
i hope you all had a wonderful weekend!
happy monday.