i never get tired of fridays!! :)

friday i'm in love!

today's friday i'm in love could also be called
friday-i-wants...
cause...i want. 
and when you have no money,
you may as well dream big
and PRETEND you have money....
(it only hurts when the realization sits in...)
(but just for a minute)
(as long you go right back to pretending again heeheehee)

so...friday i'm love brings you friday i want::::

  • to eat this.  for dessert.  for breakfast.  for supper. 
  • to contain my life in this...i would love it and hug it and fill it will promises and minion stickers and glittery hearts and little robot sketches.
  • to live this, make it my mantra...write it on my hand, tattoo it on arm...remember it...live it.
  • to own a talent like this...i might have swooned a little....so beautiful!
  • to add this to my collection...along with this...and this....
  • to make pugsley into a pugosaur....what could be better than that.  I challenge you to think of one this that would be better than a pugosaur.
  • to fill my house with the scent of these...
  • to own one of these which would inspire me to use my 3 boxes of 64 crayola crayons!  and the artist lives here in PEI...we're twitter-friends!  i can say that, right, Nadine?  we're twitter-friends, right?  and instagram-buddies!  :)
  • to put at least one (or 5...or 10) of these in my driveway...soooooo cute it hurts my heart.
  • to be able to pick up my pen and write like this...sigh.
  • to go on a road trip....in one of these....i have not been a traveling kinda girl...but since our camping trip last summer, I find myself thinking about it more and more...like a longing for something I didn't know that I missed.
  • sheep.  i want sheep.  and goats.  and maybe a chicken or two.  and a whole pug family.  and a house in the country where 15 can have dirt bikes and half pipes and I can have a tire swing with polka dots or a skateboard swing and a treehouse!! and S can have a garage and 19 can sing until her heart's content....the one stipulation we ALL agree on?  there HAS to be high speed internet.  sad but true.

happy weekend!!


#ThisLife

I have been taking a photo-a-day
since Jan 1
with no expectations on myself.

They do not have to be perfect,
they do not even have to be pretty...
they just have to be a quick snapshot of my day,
a moment where i stop
and notice what is going on around me.

It has been a good exercise for me so far...
here are some of the recent snaps...


 i like that i have been using my phone
(which is always on me)
and using instagram
but i kind of regret that i started putting them on facebook
from the start.
because...i censor myself on facebook a little more than i do
on instagram and much more than i do here.
i feel like if you are on instagram,
you get it.
i feel more...judged...on facebook...
i am not sure why that it is,
but...
it is.
it is what it is.
and maybe because i know that this little blog is not overly read
and not by many that i actually "know"...
maybe that's the difference.

either way, i am enjoying the project so far...
:)



Snippets of a Saturday

So far, the word balance has been working for me.
I have been making a point of planning out my day
and ensuring that i incorporate a little of what i HAVE to do
in with
some of what i WANT to do.

i feel calmer and quieter. 
my mind still races...but the anxiety is less...
because i know i have a start on the things that have been
on my plate for far too long.

i am getting at the stuff that i have put off
until the point that it was nothing short of overwhelming
to even think about it
so i wouldn't even think about it
except in moments of major panic and anxiety.

but i am also making time to stop what i'm doing when the kids come in,
to really listen to them...to their stories...their opinions.


to go grocery shopping with S, planning out meals as we wander up and down aisles,
not in a hurry, making jokes and stopping every now and then for a quick kiss on the forehead.


to take Pugsley out for a run down the middle of our street in the dark of early night,
laughing out loud and hard at how excited he is to be back outside after a cold snap, how he skids on an unexpected patch of ice.


to cuddle on the couch in the evening after work & editing & catch up tasks & housework is done...
to watch a movie with S... under blankets, hands touching, Pugsley wedged on a lap, the cat sometimes gracing us with his presence, too.

to take photos with my phone and to read on my lunch hour...


i am making the time count.  and, so far, it has been working.
the only thing is, this is also my period of down time...
the weddings have all been shot and for the most part, edited...
it is too cold out for family photos...
it will be interesting to see how balance comes into play
once the crazy spiral of wedding season starts again...
but this gives me a chance to have the practice down pat.

time will tell.





saturday sweetness

there were so many things that blew my mind today
found in the vast enormity of the internets...

1.
stumbled across this
and it took my breath away...
this guy can speak.

2.
strawberries soaked in sugary syrup on chocolate chip pancakes with a side of bacon...mmmm

3.

this killed me.
killed me.
i laughed so hard i could not breathe.

4.
i need to see this
{thanks to wee wonderfuls for sharing these originally
or i may have never know about them}

5.
a contest...with a diana camera...i know...i'm drooling
i'm trying to control it..


happy saturday...