June 27th 2011

Dear Husband,

In just over a week we will be venturing back to Cranbrook. Okay, closer to two weeks. Either way it is not to long till we are in the town where it all began. I am so looking forward to it. What I am looking forward to most though is the wedding of my sister.

Thinking about the  step my sister is about to take, the life changing decision she is making, takes me back to the day when we took that leap. We made a promise to love, cherish, and walk with one another almost two years ago and what an amazing journey it has been and has yet to be.

We have had our ups and downs in these past few years and it hasn't been easy living by any means but, I can tell you that I love you more now than I did that day almost two years ago. You are such an amazing man and I feel so blessed to be your wife. I love you Benjamin.

Love your wife,

My Mornings...

I never used to be a morning person, and maybe I still am not, but because I work fairly early in the morning for some reason even on weekends I can no longer sleep in. Sleeping in is sleeping till 7:30.

I don't necessarily have a routine nailed down, it isn't set in stone. I do however have a way I typically do things. I always wake up at least an hour before work starts, not because it takes me that long to get ready or because I have a long commute, because I like to have time to just be me. I like time to chill on the couch with a warm bevy sometimes a book, most of the time the laptop, and relax.

This is the only time during the day that I really get to relax. So I try my best to soak it up. 

I really do enjoy it. Ben is still sleeping, Rocco is sitting quietly beside me, or snuggled up by Ben on the bed. There are no distractions, and for an hour I can just be. So I guess by default I have become a morning person.

I hope someday when I have children of my own I will wake up with one and be able to snuggle and soak up their every breath, touch, sound. I want to be one of those mothers who bakes breakfast and has hot chocolate waiting for them as they wake.

come shop with me

Today I thought I'd try something new. Today we are going to go etsy shopping together. I don't know if you know about this site but, if you don't you should. It is absolutely great. I spend many an hour browsing through their vast amount of shops finding trinkets among trinkets for great things. I have bookmarked over a hundred stores and have them in many files organized to my liking. 

Well today I was frustrated about how many of them were no longer organized on this laptop. I have found more stores but did not file them properly so, I spent some time going over the stores I have and have found a few forgotten items that I love and thought I'd share.

clockwise from top left corner: Its a Hoot Owl Quilt, This Young Girl Sun Dress, Love What You Do 8 x 10 Print, English Rose Fingerless Gloves. 

Fantastic are they not. I love the colors of the quilt and can just imagine laying down on it with the grass and a picnic basket wearing the lovely black dress. Just magnificent. 

Then that print, it is just so cheerful I am thinking of getting it and putting it on the wall across from my bed, what a lovely message to wake up to. 

Oh, and of course thee fingerless gloves! I love the roses and the color they are so perfectly fall. Waking early on a fall morning going out and sitting on the porch clutching in my gloved hands a warm mug of hot-chocolate. Bliss I tell you! Bliss.

Hope you enjoyed shopping with me!

Cheers!

And I Love Him.

This past week has been rough for a number of reasons. I am so happy I have him.

He is amazing. I know he will always be at my side helping me through life and loving me perfectly.

My Mothers.

(written on Mothers Day....opps!)

I am very blessed to have two awesome mommies! My mom who grew me, taught me, and loved me my whole live as well as my mom-in-law who has accepted me with open arms and loves me very much. I feel so lucky to have these amazing moms in my life loving me and my husband very much. Thank you!


Thank you mom for loving me and wanting me before I was even here. Thank you for caring for me from the moment I took my first breath, really even before. Thank you for teaching me how to clap my hands, crawl, walk, talk, sing, dance, make friends, tie my shoe, how to empathize. Thank you for being  there through all the moments. 

Thank you for being there when I cried, and I cried a LOT. Thank you for showing me how loved I was when my peers showed me anything but. Thank you for having the wisdom to know when I had enough, when I was done, and when I justed needed to be home. Thank you for allowing me to flourish. Thank you for allowing me to become who I am. Thank you for trusting me.

Thank you for believing in me and pushing me to do better. Those moments where I didn't feel like I could do it you were always saying that I could. You knew me and knew when I just needed help believing. 

Thank you for letting me be dramatic, even though you already had enough drama in your life, who wouldn't with five little ones.

Thank you for letting me grow up, fall in love, and move so far away. You had so much to do with who I become and I am so happy that I had you to direct and lead me. I love you so much Mom!!!!

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Mommy two, Thank you for loving my hubby and teaching him and growing him into the man I am married to. Thank you for loving him even when he was a little bugger because, he was. Thank you for showing him what love looks like, what compassion is, and what empathy means. He has all those down and because of that is one of the most amazing people I know.

Thank you for letting him do some growing up on his own in Cranbrook, if it weren't for that I wouldn't have met him. I know this was one of the hardest things you had to do but, I am so happy you did.

Thank you for letting your little boy marry me. 

Thank you for accepting me and making me part of the family. Thank you for loving me and showing me so much love. Thank you  for being my mom when I miss my other mother. Thank you for making my birthday special when I really needed that. Thank you for raising a son who knows that birthdays are to be celebrated! 

Thank you for loving Ben and me!