Happy Mother’s Day!

This picture is a little pixelated cause it was taken on a phone. But I love it.

Before becoming a mom I used to say, “no way in hell am I going to ever have kids!” I never really wanted them for the same reason most people don’t want kids, I was selfish. I still am at times, of course. But I was for sure I didn’t want some kid taking up my time, energy, and MONEY! Ugh! Seriously. To be honest, when I got pregnant with Nevaeh it was not planned or even happy news for me, I cried and cried. But she changed my life… in a good way.

If I could describe motherhood I would say, it’s hard people… REALLY hard. But so worth it. Sounds weird, right? It’s totally weird to love someone that really didn’t do anything to deserve it. If anything, they do about a thousand things that if anyone else in the world did those things to you (ex. wakes you up several times at night, throws up on you, random tantrums, etc), you would have probably gotten rid of them LONG ago. But something about when Nevaeh just randomly stops what she’s doing and says, “I love you, mommy.” or “You’re soooo pretty.” Or Audrey when she grabs my face and just examines it, and then smiles the biggest gummy baby smile at me… ugh, makes my heart want to burst. Then it’s just worth it.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there, every mother. Whether you have physically had your own or you have become a mother to babes you have not birthed and treat them as your own (those are super special women in my book!). I hope you had a beautiful day and that someone gave you a nap! Robert gave me a three hour nap today, three hours!! That sweet man, love him.

Five whole days!!??

April 2, 2013 Uncategorized 2 comments

This is how many days I will have off work starting… TODAY! I’m so excited to get a little time off not for Dr’s appointments or sick kids, but… just because.

So what am I going to do these next five days?? I have no clue! Isn’t that awesome?! No plan whatsoever. When you’re a full time working mama you really come to appreciate having mindless days with no agenda, it’s so liberating. Really.

To start off my five days of complete and utter nothingness, I came across this beauty at the store.

I may have just bought this mostly for the label, it grabbed my attention and pulled me in. I couldn’t help myself, I’m a sucker for color and pretty pictures. To top it off, Moscato? You really can’t go wrong with Moscato. SOLD! Didn’t take me long to grab this off the shelf and bring it home with me, just to sit it on the counter and stare at it while I sipped a glass. No, I really didn’t just sit and stare at that bottle… but it is pretty right? (Murphy is in the background probably like, “what the hell are you taking a picture of that bottle for, woman beast???)

And of course, chocolate.

A storm just blew in as I’m writing this and it really couldn’t be a better start to a great five days.

Cheers!

Easter Monday = More pictures!

April 1, 2013 Uncategorized 4 comments

Happy Easter Monday/April Fools Day!

Did anyone get any good April Fools jokes in today?? I did! I would go into telling the story here, but it did happen at my work with co-workers. So it would turn out to be an extremely lengthy post trying to explain the whole situation and probably would just not sound as funny written as it was in action. I will say though that it was pretttty awesome and I do think I deserve some sort of reward, since this particular co-worker is not the easiest to fool.

I have a few more pictures of Audrey from Easter Sunday that I wanted to throw up on the blog here, cause they are just too adorable to not share! I can’t wait to go back on this space in the future and see all these pictures of how this girl has grown. At the same time I don’t want this baby face to ever go away!

Audrey reaches a lot nowadays for my face, always with her fingers just like that.

This last picture would have been so perfect if Audrey didn’t have that eye gunk coming out. I think she has allergies right now and that is the reaction she gets. Poor babe.

I love my big girl Nevaeh so much and never imagined being able to love another like I love her. It’s amazing how much your heart can expand for another and be so full of love for two. Audrey is the happiest girl with the most contagious smile! It melts my heart over and over, it almost hurts with love. Have you ever felt like that? If you haven’t, I really hope you do one day. For something, anything… start with yourself. There is nothing like it, really.

Happy Easters!

March 31, 2013 Uncategorized No comments

Happy Easter! I hope everyone enjoyed theirs! We had a low key Easter Sunday with just Robert, Audrey and myself. Nevaeh is on a little road trip with her Grandparents to go visit some of her cousins. Unfortunately since Nevaeh is out of town and Audrey is a bit too small for egg hunting and candy munching, we just put her in a cute little dress and fed her yummy bunny carrots for lunch (pureed carrots is the closest Easter meal you can get with a almost 8 month old babe).

I also realized this was my only post for this month, WUT?! Well, this month has been pretty crazy. Audrey had pink eye which kept her out of daycare for about 10 days. During this time I had to work from the casa, which is no fun in my job especially when caring for a sick baby at the same time. Bleh!

I also came across a few instances where I became extremely frustrated with a certain issue. I won’t go in to specifics here, but you always hear people say don’t let this “challenge” or “person” control your emotions. That you can choose to control how you feel and have a good day, etc etc. Well what is the secret for that?? Cause sometimes, no matter how hard I try to tell a crappy feeling or situation “nope, you will not ruin my day!” It seems that I can’t shake it. I can diminish it by keeping myself busy, sure… but full on not letting it affect my day? No way! Anyone else have this issue? Maybe I haven’t conquered this technique yet or something, but gah! This post was supposed to be about Easter, right? Whoops.

Anyhow, all of that to say this month has been just “one of those months.” I’m hoping April is more fluid and a breath of fresh air for me. I could use a breather… and a massage.

If you made it this far, thank you for reading all of that! Until next time, which I hope this month will be much sooner than later, have a beautiful week!

Better late than never

February 18, 2013 Uncategorized No comments

It has been non stop over here lately so I was unable to actually post on Valentine’s Day, but I hope everyone enjoyed the day of celebrating the big L-O-V-E. I am actually not a huge fan of Valentine’s Day, I believe all the romantic stuff is better expressed randomly than one day a year when it’s expected. We did still celebrate however at home in a low key kind of way.

I have a pretty huge obsession with cupcakes, it’s bad. Robert surprised me with this giant cupcake, check that thing out!

I brought home a bottle of Sofia Riesling and Chocolate Covered Strawberries from Godiva.

We ordered Chinese takeout and enjoyed these goodies together at home. It was relaxing and a ton cheaper than going out to Valentine’s dinner with all the crowds.

Did anyone else do anything fun for the big V Day? Also, what in the world do you get a guy for Valentine’s Day that’s actually cool??!! I still have yet to figure that out.

Guess what today is?!

February 13, 2013 Uncategorized No comments

That’s right, Pancake Day (in the UK)! I actually had no clue it was Pancake day today until a Huffington Post came up on my Twitter feed that said so. So in honor of this day we had breakfast for dinner with green and purple pancakes! I know I don’t live in the UK but… pancakes?! C’mon, I had to show my support! Love you, UK!

Nevaeh asked for green pancakes!

This syrup was seriously amazing! I bought it the other day and was actually going to use it for a cake recipe (it’s a bit expensive), but it seemed appropriate to break out for this occasion.

Other than celebrating UK Pancake Day, I have been quite busy this week making new designs in Photoshop for some of my coworkers. I’m actually really impressed with the designs and can’t wait to show them here soon! I also recently purchased a tablet to start drawing my own custom designs (used in the above pictures for commentary, which I apparently am not good at yet… just humor me and go with it pretty please). :)

Until next time… peace, love and pancakes!

Half way to one

February 5, 2013 Uncategorized 2 comments

I remember about 3 or 4 months ago I had some friends come over to visit and one of our guests brought their 6 month old baby. I remember telling Robert, “look, this is how much Audrey will develop when she gets to be 6 months!” At that moment, of course, I couldn’t image this tiny girl being 6 months… and now here we are.

Unfortunately starting Sunday afternoon, Audrey has come down with what our doctor says is a 24-48 hour stomach bug (ummm, times up!). We had to give her suppositories to control vomiting, no fun, and try to keep her drinking fluids. All day yesterday she refused to eat a thing, which worried me she would need to go to the ER for dehydration. Luckily she ate about 2 ounces before bed, and 2-4 ounces every few hours throughout the day today. She is still running a fever but is slowly showing signs of getting better. These pictures of her are from today, she spent most of it resting and developing a little appetite again.

When you see Audrey you can tell she will be a very petite girl when she is older. She is rolling over from tummy to back and almost sitting up. She will sit for awhile but when turning her head to look somewhere else, her whole body tends to go with her.

She hates tummy time, I don’t think I have seen a baby hate it so much (any suggestions on how to get her more into this?). When she manages to get 5-10 mins of tummy time in, she can use both of her hands to hold her head and chest up.

She is laughing a lot more now, I need to try to record this it really is the best sound ever.

She has the most contagious smile I have ever seen, she really is the happiest little thing. She makes my heart feel like it is going to burst every day that I see her little face.

I love this little girl, so so much. I never knew it was possible to hold so much love in my heart for two little girls.

Happy 6 months to the sweetest, tiny girl! I look forward to seeing you grow and change over the next 6 months. But not too fast, ok?

Lately around these parts

January 30, 2013 Uncategorized No comments

In my last post I mentioned how one of my work goals was to get my ITIL Certification. Well I am happy to announce that as of last Friday, January 25th I am officially ITIL Certified!

(Those are my scores on each section above, but the most important thing is that big, fat PASS right there!)
One goal down, probably a billion more to go, but I am thrilled to be able to check this one off my list!

Also to your left you will see some super cute social media buttons. What makes those buttons more exciting is… I DREW THEM! Well the arrow part I drew in Photoshop, but I’m so excited! They are very simple but it took me what seemed like forever to get done. When you’re inexperienced and self taught, little things like buttons can become a pretty lengthy project.

Even though this blog is coming along very slowly I am proud of this little space. It has been fun learning, playing, and researching (yes, even hours of researching) how to piece everything together. I am really looking forward to developing more over time in this skill and checking off another one of my long term personal goals.

I hope everyone is having a great week so far!

Danae

One step at a time

January 14, 2013 Uncategorized 2 comments

I have been bad about posting here or even updating my blog design lately, and I am not happy about this one bit. But this New Year has brought on quite a few things that I am wanting to accomplish, at work and in my personal life.

If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram you probably just saw this picture come across your news feed…

One of my work goals is to get my ITIL Certification, and I am so close (so, so close!) to that goal I can taste it! So I figured I would go ahead and knock this one out first. Then move on to the next goal, then the next, step by step until I get to the end of 2013 wearing a very productive smile on my face! Well, that’s the plan anyway.

So I may be quiet from time to time on the blog, but I will be coming back to update as frequently as possible. I may do a post soon sharing some of my goals or New Year’s Resolutions, one of them having to do with this blog that I. can’t. WAIT to start working on!

What types of goals or resolutions have you set for this year?

-Danae

Happy New Year

January 1, 2013 Uncategorized No comments

And this is how our New Year started off…

Seriously… fireworks literally scared the shit out of her.

Hope everyone else had a wonderful New Year!

Danae

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