Last night was the beautiful, full, Hunter’s Moon. I snuck outside to snap a few photographs after Roman was asleep. I have always been drawn to the moon. There is something undeniably magical about it. Sometimes it takes my breath away. For ages, farmers, sailors,…
in the woods
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Life is But a Dream…
I finally started to feel better over the weekend. I’m still not 100% sure what was wrong, but it seems that I either had kidney stones and passed them or I had a kidney infection that has cleared up. Either way it was unpleasant and…
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Jungle Habitat
On Sunday afternoon, Matthew, Roman, Bella and I headed over to explore a place that we’ve been wanting to hike for awhile — Jungle Habitat. Jungle Habitat is located in our town. M. had ridden its trails on his dirt bike years ago, but I’d…
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Roman’s First Hike
Hiking is one of my favourite things to do and I’ve been so excited to take Roman on his first hike. Unfortunately, in the spring I was recovering and then in the summer it was too hot. But this past weekend we were feeling great,…
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Home Renovation
When Matthew & I moved into our house almost five years ago it was a fixer-upper. (Fixer-upper being a euphemism for: a piece of…) I digress. An elderly woman lived in the house before us. It smelled like cat. There was a thin layer of…
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eggs + toast + little joys
Sometimes I get disappointed with myself for not being perfect. I am not a perfect wife, a perfect daughter, a perfect friend, a perfect employee, a perfect mama-to-be. And then I remember that there is no such thing as perfect. The only thing that is…
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hello, february!
December and January were hard. I got the flu on Christmas and spent the next two weeks in bed. Pregnancy + the flu is just as horrible as you might imagine. Lucky for me, Matthew makes a wonderful nurse. I started to feel better by…
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everything passes, everything changes.
“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.” —Claude Monet “Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.” —Bob Dylan…