I'm gonna level with y'all - this week was no fun. I had a big project for work I needed to finish up (finally going on maternity leave next week!), I got no sleep Wednesday night thanks to intermittent Braxton Hicks, the power went out for it's mandatory two hour period right around lunch time (which meant the house felt like a freezer...
Just thought I'd share some of my favorite photos from last year's Christmas. It really is the most magical time of the year... ...
I'm actually 38 weeks today but these are some photos we took last week. I figured after 37 weeks you never know when the baby could come so we wanted to get some last photos in before I lose the bump! It's been interesting for me to observe the way my feelings have been changing over the past couple of days. Being this...
This year for Thanksgiving it was just the two of us and the fur babies. My midwife wasn't looking kindly at us driving more than an hour anywhere and personally I don't enjoy drives more than fifteen minutes long myself these days so... So at home we stayed. And it was glorious. We were incredibly lazy and ordered a thanksgiving meal from Whole...
I've always loved Christmas but it wasn't until we moved to the US that my love turned into an obsession. I'll never forget arriving at JFK that December and thinking that we must have landed in heaven. Christmas music softly emanated from speakers, steaming cups of peppermint lattes in festive red cups lined the bar at Starbucks and the gift shops were brimming...
Goodness I feel like there is just so much to be thankful for... I'm thankful for the beautiful autumn season we experienced this year I'm thankful for this miracle growing inside of me I'm thankful for chewy gingerbread cookies from Trader Joe's I'm thankful for kitty snuggles late at night I'm thankful for the life papa bear and I have have built together...
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven I recently mentioned that since clothes shopping is no longer very fun for me I went out and fed my shopping desire by buying quite a bit of new makeup. A few items I purchased ended up being revelations for me. You see I essentially haven't changed my makeup routine since high school. Years ago I...
Years ago when we would talk about having kids we would always say it wasn't so much financial stability that we were concerned with but our own emotional stability and growth. My parents have always been believers that there's "no right time to have a baby" and having myself grown up in a family that struggled financially I can attest to the fact...
This week we got to unpack our bags for good. I really liked that. Other than the fact that we were inwardly celebrating getting back in a routine it was a pretty low key week - work, errands, laundry, cleaning and even some cooking (I was more shocked than anyone!). Oh we did officially finish the baby's room which is ever so exciting!...
I wanted to share my list of books I've read this year. I don't read a lot but when I do I like to make it count. I pick them carefully and try to have a healthy mix of new reads as well as classics. I suppose I feel like there are so many classics I still haven't read that I want to...
I'm finally looking very pregnant! It's an interesting time - people hold open doors, send me well wishes everywhere I go and funny enough everyone wants to know if it's a girl or boy! We had our 36 week ultrasound yesterday and I was thrilled to hear that baby is doing great! Our midwife even told me that I'm doing a very good...
Well kids this was our last pre-baby weekend in DC. It all felt sort of surreal, to think that the next time we would be here (and probably the next time we will see our family) we will no longer be a family of two... The passage of time this year has felt rather surreal too. I can't believe Thanksgiving is next week...
