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sorry about the interruption here yesterday, I seemed to have come down with either a terrible case of food poisioning or something along the lines of the virus that struck our house back in 2009. not.so.fun..but after spending 36 hours in bed and consuming only two glasses of water and a banana to try to make some food for the little one - really not fun to be a nursing mama and sick - I think I am coming out of the worst of it. Hope to be back to posting really soon but until then a few links that you might enjoy:

this JAW dropping breakfast birthday party over on Cakies this morning. I mean red velvet pancakes and all. might have to steal a few ideas from this some time soon!

these cute little raspberry mint sugar hearts for valentines day via prudent baby.

this awesome tutorial on bias tape over on MADE blog - I have been meaning to make some of this for so long and she really breaks it all down for us!

and who could resist this peanutella recipe on smittenkitchen - I mean woah.

allrighty I shall return, don't have too much fun without me. oh and happy groundhogs day!

xo,
Rebekah

make something monday :: sneak peek

Your going to have to settle for a little sneak peek for todays regular make something monday post. Please come back tomorrow when I hope to have finished..our weekend was a little fuller and more exhausting than I had planned. Hope you all have a wonderful Monday afternoon! xoxo

today I:

image via elgarboart

♥ slept in, thank you Mr. Gough for making that possible

♥ met a sweet friend for coffee and chatted about many wonderful topics of inspiration - hi Alisha!

♥ came home and found my boys playing memory with Dad while he folded laundry. He had fed Josie and put her down for a nap which lasted for almost three hours!

♥ Chris took the boys to Costco and other errands while I ate almond butter toast and surfed the web.

♥ drank my V8

♥ filled the candy jars on my piano with dove dark chocolate hearts and dark chocolate almond nugget

♥ candy was delivered this morning with groceries via AmazonFresh and an A-MAZING deal that Jenny alerted me to yesterday. Serious savings to be had if you live in the greater Seattle area and order by Sunday Saturday (thanks Jenny!) enter the code: GREENLAKEMOM11 and save %50 up to $100 on orders over $150..serious if you order $200 in groceries you save $100 big ones!

♥ planned out our menu for next week

♥ left the chores for another day

♥ am going to pop some popcorn in our new fancy popcorn machine (thanks Mom) and watch Curious George goes to the doctor with my little family later on this evening. Simon added a bunch of movies to our Netflix queue because he is crazy and knows how to access that stuff...ever so often I let one come through the mail and the boys FREAK out when their movie appears it is so fun and hilarious.

♥ today has almost felt like a mini vacation, a gift to this tired Mama's heart!

so what about you, what did you do today?

an afternoon adventure

some cuties for a cozy coffee date or spontaneous shopping with a friend. oh how I remember the days where arranging for an afternoon adventure didn't require two baby sitters and just a whole lot of planning.

sweater, boots, jeans, purse..off to make some coffee at home and I am sure that will include an adventure here too!

deep breaths :: a tutu moment

Today I had one of those moments where my heart just about burst with gratitude and it came in the form of a pink tutu.

Josie is finally getting into some of her 3-6 month clothes and I realized that the darling pink skirt my sister bought her was probably going to fit soon. When I decided to try it on her my mind flashed back to almost exactly a year ago and how I never in my wildest dreams would have thought that I would be putting a tutu on my daughter today. Last February when I found out I was pregnant and confessed that I really wanted a girl I was faced with a bit of opposition and criticism. I know that all we should really hope for as expectant Moms is a healthy little one and I am lucky to even have the opportunity to carry children but something deep inside me was aching so loudly that I could hardly bear it. I had no choice but to go to the Lord and plead with him, desperately tell him of the longing in my heart. Specifically. No beating around the bush, a true bear it all kind of intimacy with the Lord.

Truthfully I didn't believe he loved me enough to hear me but I was so so wrong. Today when I dressed Josie for the first time in such a girly little skirt my heart burst again with just how much God knows my heart and how it has taken me thirty years to begin to trust him with it. Of course my desires for a daughter have nil to do with the clothes I get to buy for her that is just icing on the cake. Nor does it mean that she doesn't come with a whole host of work and challenges (oh yes she did scream bloody murder per usual today in the car - just like every other time she has been in the car, my poor sweet boys rocking her car seat and desperately trying to give her the binky) but her presence in my life is a constant reminder of how deeply and intimately God wants to know me..why is it so easy to forget?

It seems that life is so much easier for me if I can be in control and I confess that I so often think just that - that I am actually in control. Today Jesus is reminding me to come running to him and tell him all the deep, specific things on my heart. He might not always answer me in the way that I ask but I do know that he loves me enough to listen and respond in his perfect way.

My life is so far from perfection, we have many hard things on the table right now. But today for a few minutes I let myself get lost in the truth that no matter what God Loves - he loves me, he desperately loves you and he wants to know, everything.

We named our girl Josie because it means Jehovah will increase, may he continue to increase my faith and trust in his perfect love. Thanks for letting me share the simple pleasures of a pink tutu friends I hope your evening is blessed! xoxo

and please excuse the incredibly dirty mirror picture - ha!

make something monday :: felt heart strings

I did a little crafting this weekend but nothing really worthy of a tutorial. Just some simple felt hearts in pink with spots of orange and yellow to hang over my marigold piano. A little dreaming about my valentines day display encouraged me to throw on a good girly movie and cut cut cut. I just slipped the hearts through my sewing machine to sting them together and now they are waiting for the perfect little moment to myself to get lost in decorating that corner of my home for the holiday.

It's another dreary day here in Seattle. My boys are in an after lunch time tub and their Sister is making herself known that she would like some lunch too. Not a lot planned for the rest of the day but maybe another cup of coffee some play dough and dinner making madness in a few hours but at least I don't have to get out of my sweats if I don't want to.

Hope you all have a wonderful Monday staying warm and cozy whatever you do...and what about you, did you make anything fun this weekend?

modern little ones

 

I came home this afternoon to the sweetest little package in my mailbox. My friend Catherine made Josie an adorable stroller blanket in green and orange with the softest polka dot chenille back. I absolutely love it! 

Catherine is the owner and designer behind the label Modern Little Ones, a shop with all kinds of adorable things for baby's and little's..some really great stuff here folks. She is a busy Mom of twin girls and a self taught sewer who openly admits to having fallen in love with fabric in the past few years which has lead her to start her own business making wonderful things out of gorgeous fabrics. The quality really stands out and her prices are fabulous too! 

I have had my eye on a few things in her shop for awhile now and am so excited to finally get my hands on one of her pieces. I thought it would be worth a mention here knowing that many of us are often on the lookout for great baby shower gifts and it is always much more fun to support handmade artist and to give something a little unique and original. Seriously I can not speak highly enough about Catherine and her products - if you are looking for something extra special for a little someone in your life please check out her shop you will not be disappointed!

and here's a little picture I took with my funny man Simon the other day...I asked him to smile for me and this is what I got..he is getting so big it just kills me.

Happy Thursday everyone, muster up a little smile tomorrow is Friday!!