Sometimes…

September 6th, 2011

Sometimes it hits me, this life we’ve created.

One night this past weekend my husband got out of bed at 12:42 a.m. and snuck down the hall, through the kitchen and into the garage to turn off the timer set for the sprinklers. He turned off the timer so he could mow the lawns in the morning, the lawns that belong to us because they came with the house we bought.

Sometimes it hits me, this life we’ve created. It seems simple, so run of the mill that most things are tended to without notice or acknowledgment. But sometimes the realization strikes and I am taken by surprise.

It doesn’t matter how many years we’ve owned this house, how many times the lawns have been mowed. Or how long we’ve been together or how many milestones we’ve seen our children meet and surpass.

Sometimes it hits. It really hits, and for those moments, I am grateful. Those flashes of unbelievableness. Those times that I have to work my way back to how this all started and where he and I all began. Those mini shock waves when I am stung by the greatness of it.

I am in love with those moments and I crave them forever. And I fall asleep in gratitude.

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Ella’s Big Girl Bed

June 9th, 2011

For weeks, we’d been hyping up the Big Girl Bed. For weeks, our two and a half year old Ella was not convinced.

“You can jump on your Big Girl Bed!”

“Naw…”

“We’ll read your bedtime books in your Big Girl Bed!”

(giggles)

“Mommy & Daddy can get in your Big Girl Bed with you!”

(…pondering…)

Finally, one morning as I lifted her over the white slatted wall of her crib, she said, “Mommy – iz time foh a big gill bed.”

Well okay.

In that moment, I knew we’d reached our goal. She’d finally warmed up to the idea. But at the same time, I felt my heart sink just a little.

All this convincing of our two and a half year old, & now it was my turn to be convinced.

Since that moment that she made up her mind, she’s been telling us daily that “Iz time foh a big gill bed.”

We browsed beds online and poured over pages of bed linens for just the right ones to be tucked inside of.

She picked out her twin size bed herself (and it happened to be the one I’ve had my eye on since she was just a one-er). We ordered it and found out it would take two weeks to deliver.

Every day since we ordered, she’s said, “I kint WAIT foh mah big gill bed!”

She spots the mail lady as she zips up to our house and hopefully guesses “My big gill bed is here?!”

One day the mail lady brought us a shoe box sized package and Ella ran out on the heels of her daddy to collect the mail. She galloped back inside, declaring it was her big gill bed.

Ant ordered her twin mattress and her very own (very puffy and cloudlike) pillow.

This week we bought her two sheet sets and an extra little frilly pillow just for fun.

Yesterday as she woke up from her nap, Ant and I nuzzled into her crib with her.

Last night I washed those sheets. After she went down for her last slumber in her crib, we unpackaged her memory foam mattress. Ant and I lay on it, in the middle of the kitchen floor and I thought about how our baby is growing.

She is unbelievable.

Today the Big Girl Bed was delivered to our home and put together. We dressed it & tested it out. A bounce here, a snuggle there…

We spent some good time in her room today, playing around the new piece of furniture that seems to occupy half the room. But the thing is, it’s not just a piece of furniture…it’s a milestone. One that brings me to tears even.

Tonight the four of us read her bedtime stories under the covers and I snuggled next to my baby until I heard her breaths grow long and deep. I breathed in the scent of her just washed hair, realizing how fast she is growing but at the same time reassuring myself, “She is still in diapers. She is still in diapers.” I kissed her head and said a prayer of thanks and gratitude for this little one.

I still can’t believe she is ours to love.

Thanks for sharing in our little milestone. It was a big day for us!

XoXo, Katy

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FIVE

May 27th, 2011

Five years ago today I was nervous and excited, hopeful and grateful. Five years ago today I made the best decision I will ever make.

I married my best friend and my life began to unfold before me.

Since that day, my husband and I, we’ve created a universe together. We purchased our first home and remodeled the entire inside. We not only made a house but created a home straight from our dreams. It continues to be a work in progress, and I love it that way. We are always growing together. We made a plan for a family to put in that house and over the past three years, have nurtured it into fruition. I have seen my dreams from childhood materialize. Hand in hand with the love of my life.

I hope you have a beautiful day. Share your light and love with someone special.
XoXo, Katy

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Familiar Face

May 13th, 2011

 

Hi friends! It’s Friday! I hope your week has been lovely.

Lately I’ve been seeing my mom in my face a lot. I see the mom that was my age now. The mom that was before my sister or me, the one that I catch glimpses of in photos. Photos that growing up, I would stare at in awe. That was my mom? It left me feeling pleased and proud.

There’s one photo in particular that I always go back too. Dusty ’70s light and there is my mom in tight plaid shorts, peeking through a gate at the picture-taker, her boyfriend, who would be my father in years to come. She’s in her twenties, a tall girl, with long brown hair falling past her shoulders. Her smile is wide and her expression is familiar. The whole scene is like a dream.

Every time I look at this picture I think of that before-me woman. And I kind of really love it.

Dress // Old Navy (several years ago)
Bangles // gifts from husband, Alex & Ani
Wedges // Blowfish Shoes
Smile // my mother

What about you? Do you have an old photo that’s magic in your eyes?

Have a fabulous weekend!
Xo, Katy

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