This past week we did some ‘extensions’ on Barbie’s house. It has now taken over the whole 8 cubbies of the expidit shelf. 6 cubbies for Barbie’s home and the top two for the baskets holding the clothes and accessories. We now have 3 bedrooms, a nursery, a dinning room, a bathroom and in the […]
Itty Bitty Snowman and the Icicles….sounds like a cool band huh? Well if it was a band, I imagine they would be singing some chirpy tunes with the lead singer looking like this little fellow. Introducing our Itty Bitty snowman we made this afternoon. Sadly he did not last long, thanks to Maya’s adoration…he plonked […]
Another snow storm came our way last night. We went to bed expecting at least a foot of snow come morning. When the shutters opened we were not disappointed. Our yard was deep and white and oh so inviting! My first thought was “let’s go sledding”…my second thought was “Where is the sled?”…mental not to […]
I am sure it is not just me…but don’t you feel that Christmas comes and goes so quickly? Christmas is after all just one day, and that one day complete with all the festivity seems to fly by in the blink of an eye. This year I really dragged my feet when it came time […]
Like a dusting of powdered sugar, the snow came down again today putting a fresh white coating on top of everything. It looked so sweet and pretty, I can’t get enough of watching gentle snow flakes fall. A small amount of snow compared to last weeks blizzard, today only 2 inches on the ground. Enough though […]
By yesterday afternoon the snow was starting to compact, which meant two things…time to dig out the car before it becomes a block of ice, and time to build a snowman! I am yet to build a snowman in the proper method where you start with a ball of snow and roll it and roll […]
With our two little snow angels we enjoyed some snow play. The Girls are both very good in the snow and while Elle did not want to venture too far from Mummy, they both had a lot of fun. Maya took the time to do some writing in the snow and attempted to build a […]
With snow fall records being broken all over the East Coast of America, we were in for a deluge clean up. I was up early opening the blinds to inspect just how much snow we had over night. Elle and I peered sleepily out the window into our yard. It was buried in more than two […]
Here in NYC we are in the midst of a Boxing Day blizzard! The snow started falling at about 11am this morning and it is predicted to snow all night. With approximately 16-18 inches of snow expected we are looking forward to waking up tomorrow morning to the thick white blanket of snow. The Blizzard […]
Larissa and I met in 1997. About a week after I turn 21. Some how independently we both made our way to the small isolated community of Sitka. Located on Baranof Island in the Aleutian chain of Alaska South-East. I headed to Sitka after hearing about it from ‘Aunt’ Maxine (my Auntie in laws Mother) […]
Today I spent the day in the City shopping with Stephanie. Stephanie is a friend I have know for almost 15 years now…and as life leads us all on different paths, I have not seen her for a long time. Steph came to Manhattan to complete a course on exercise for Diastasis Recti. I was delighted to hear […]
Our neighbours put up their outdoor Christmas lights on the weekend. It was so lovely to look out our window and see the lights. This evening after having dinner we had to go outside and admire them closer. There seems to be lots of lights popping up in the street and so I am looking forward […]
A little over two weeks ago Elle stopped nursing. It was not really a choice that either she or I made on purpose, it just happened that way. When I became sick the week of her second birthday, I was so sick in bed with the flu that having her drink was not physically possible […]
I wanted to share this photo of a black bear that my Father in law John took while we were upstate apple picking. We were heading out of the town of Warrick back to NYC when Cam, who was driving, said “Look, there’s a bear in a tree”. Sure enough, there, by the side of […]
The past weekend we were dealt the miss a turn card in the game of life. Sometimes the game of life is just this way…you are doing your best, playing hard, playing well, and then when you least expect it…up pops miss a turn. Sadly for us miss a turn was a high stacked weekend. Elle’s […]
GOLD is a colour of protection and primarily strengthens the heart and self-confidence. It symbolises universal love. Gold represents the good and noble and symbolises silence, for silence is golden. He who can keep silent at the right time is a true master. In fairy tales all great treasures are always made of gold.
On Thursday we said farewell to family friends. They are taking the leap and moving out of New York City. Something lots of families seem to talk about doing at one point or another. Maya went to Playgroup with their little boy and on many afternoons after playgroup we would hang out together int he […]
With only a few more weeks remaining until Elle turns two, I have been putting a lot of thought into how wonderful the almost two years have been with Elle in our life. Elle Belle, as we fondly call her is in fact just that – she beautiful – as it would translate in French. Daily […]
Once there was a girl who had a curl right in the middle of her forehead, When she was good she was very very good and when she was bad she was……still adorable! How could one so cute ever be naughty?
As you may have noticed, Maya and Elle love to wear hats….and until recently we owned quite a few. That was until Elle started loosing them! This Summer we lost three hats, yes three! Maya never once lost a hat, but Elle managed to lose three. How you might ask? Well when Elle decides to […]