Ceiling ENVY!

Not sure where I found this image... so if I swiped it from you or your blog... I am sorry. But I stole it as some much needed inspiration.

I am dying to do this to my living room ceiling... think it won't cost too much. And since we are doing all the renos in our home I don't think this would be too hard to accomplish on our own. Probably helps that ironically I am a math/measurement nerd and my artist husband has worked in woodworking for years.

Love this moulding covered ceilings!

Mama got a new set of Wheels!

Laugh all you want... but these 3 wheels made me smile like a spoiled little rich girl! I have 2 kids, with barely a year apart in age... so most people would probably assume we had a double stroller. But last year when we thought about getting a double stroller we couldn't decide on which style.

Then someone donated a stroller to us that was side-by-side. It was good for a while but it had seen it's glory days and wouldn't be able to withstand the expectations I had set in my head

And then Epiphany started, life changing revolution that I am in... some kind of Metamorphosis! This girl is going to lose weight, this girl is going to be healthy, athletic, social (again) and entrepreneurial (also again) like I envision for myself.

So what else would a mommy like that want... what would make this mommy happy. Well, this mommy is dying to find a reason to go for a walk or perhaps those walk/jogs that I have mentioned before. I bought a BabyTrend Expedition Double Jogger- Sonic.... and I AM in LOVE! I took her for her first test drive today, both girls in, hills and a huge down hill--- would not recommend wearing flip-flops--- went to the mall the manoeuvring of this little machine (yes it's a machine, a beautiful machine) was so easy, fits through doors easily, and people tend to open the doors for you as well when you walk around with this beauty. So while my neighbours walk around with their uberly over priced stroller that only fits one child, I can plug my Ipod into my speaker dock that is built into my stroller and I can go for a jog! Take that!

Simple things make me HAPPY!

ON A SIDE NOTE!

Bought my husband a gift that actually fit into a box this year... really nothing beats the flying lessons he got 2 years ago. But I bought wrapping paper... bows and everything, came home and couldn`t find scissors or tape. So with very little products around the house... I put together this gift put together with an exacto knife and painter`s tape. Mommy`s are the most savvy people in the world...

Happy Anniversary!

While I would love to say this is my anniversary in this blog.... not as of yet, but this is a really special day for me and my husband!

It's our 6 year Marriage Anniversary!

I can't believe that long has come and gone, that our unity as a couple to do things together, have babies, grow old, mend buttons, bruises, broken body parts and be there for things we both think are contrived for the other... without a protest, without a glitch!

I will not try and preach to you that me and my husband live in some uncomprehensive world of utopia... au contraire my dear blog friends... we suffer from serious realism. Days have sun and clouds, moons, stars and darkness; our relationship is no different. We need to regroup on occasions.... we need a moment to ourselves, we need to argue or protest the others opinion... but most of all we need to hug and love each other at the end of the day because we understand that we are each others it person.

It's been over 13 years that we have been in each others lives... and I can honestly say this has been our best year thus far. Thanks for letting me share!

Cheers!~

Working backwards!

I think a lot about my place in the universe, the foot print I leave in a people's lives and my own life.

Sometimes I look at how ambitious, how driven and focused I was to be in the industry I wanted to be in... and then I made the decision that worked for me, I had my babies. Right when things were starting off for me... something made me regroup and decided it would have to wait I need to start having my family NOW! Anyone in the fashion industry (in which I dabble my little pinkie toe lately) would stare in disbelief when I told them I was pregnant... how do you give up something sooo fantastic, how do you NOT go to NYC to pursue the paid internship in PR... come on.

But I did it, and I use to perhaps rehash the thoughts over and over again until I heard this woman speak... Carolina Herrera! If you don't know the name it's synonymous with socialite elite fashion, the dresser of Renee Zellweger--- to me it's role model material. Someone might ask people who do you look up to? I didn't have an answer for that question til just recently... and now I heard her talk and I have one. Why her? She said the only thing that rang true in my life... "you can have children and come back and have a successful career when you are ready..." don't quote it... but it goes something like that. She had her kids, she fully raised her kids and then she followed her dreams.

She didn't believe the hype, that age dismisses you... that being a certain age stifles your inner fashionista... please people--- those barking fashionisms down your throat are not young and ripe any longer but old and pruned... they bring a sophistication and a class but Karl Lagerfeld no ones baby, Anna Wintour not spring chicken either... so who says that someone with age can't be reverent, they can't play in the field of FASHION.

So perhaps others see me going backwards... career, marriage and then children... but I like the fact that I have my babies, I like the fact that they inspire me to follow my dreams... and I can go forward only being more certain in the things that I want and not in a naive post teen kind of a way, but a mature sophisticated (OK only slightly sophisticated) manner.

I can't take the heat!

I can't take this heat we are dealing with here in Toronto... I am sure some people have it far worse than we do and I hate to complain but:

1. I have NO A/C in my house, I didn't need it all year last year and didn't think we would ever need one since we grin and bared it for a whole summer.


2. I do NOT live close to a salt water beach. We have beaches so don't get me wrong... I love, did I say LOVE, I truly love the beaches we have here in the city but swimming in them is slightly scary and I don't get the same kind of swim in a lake that I adore getting from salt water.


3. So relief might be to get in the car and go somewhere but even the car doesn't have A/C.


4. I refuse to cook in this heat, so I haven't eaten anything substantial in the last couple of days (far too many sandwiches from Subway)


5. My hair, has been up and has not come down in days... showering to make myself pretty for a cute outfit not going to happen, it's too hot to turn on the blow dryer.. so my hair well looks like ASS!

But I have had a couple of nice days with my girls taking in the warmth with 3 visits to a pool of some sort, visits to their yiayia's house so they can be in an air cooled room and I have even gotten 2 extreme workouts in...

otherwise I am melting away... to hot to handle and would rather sit around and be naked daily and do nothing. Guess that wouldn't be highly productive of myself. Are you in a heat wave? Are you enjoying the heat? Or how are you coping?

Cheers!~

MMmmmm Pine!

They are here!

I had bought myself solid wood pine doors for my upstairs rooms... all 4 doors. Matching unstained highly beautiful pine doors; but they had been at my dad's workshop for over a year. Broken arm and all... the doors are back, the doors will be going up this month. Still don't know if we are painting or are we staining them??? Who knows... all I know is my girls will have a door for their bedroom (they don't have one)-- we have a cheesy plywood door on our room. We have a very old house with huge 7 in. mouldings... so we needed real doors.

I am soooo excited. I will share the progress as it comes along.

Cheers!~

I am a SIZE DOWN!

WOOOHOOO!!!

Took a very very long time in my liking... but I am a whole friggin size down! OK! I am sooo stoked about this. ( I can't believe I just used that darn word)--- but this feels huge to me.

This has been a busy couple of days you'd think the weekend just started but the weekend is a few days away. The husband and I went to an event yesterday night and it was fun and boring all at the same time. Fun because we were laughing our heads off at our own little jokes, and 2 Indian sisters had taken a liking to my husband and were giggling up a storm with him

It was Canada Day today... and well we had a garden cleaning day followed by a real great dinner with my dad on the Danforth. Love when we get to hang out with him, it's so great for the girls. And he's the only person who dedicates to speak to them in other than English. It's hard to speak to my girls in all the languages that I speak... but sorry tangent.

But I am really enjoy the small but noticeable transformation I am seeing... and enjoying! So hope your weekend is as great as my day is today--- ENJOY people!


Cheers!~