Lucy “reading”

 

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Let’s Talk…

Lately I’ve started asking Lucy if she wants to lie on the bed and have a talk. Sometimes she says no and wants to jump on the bed instead (which I let her do…with me there of course), other times she says “sure!”, cuddles beside me, folds her arms and legs and waits for me to ask what she wants to talk about. Today her answer was “Jesus…and Mary…and baby Jesus!” followed by giggles and then more jumping…

Snowman

Sweet Baboo…

I don’t know how we ever came across this but years ago my Mom found a letter, probably in an old book, that was written from a man to his wife who was out-of-town for work (i assume). It’s an incredibly romantic letter and I’ve always wondered who these people were. It was written on November 7, 1983 (which would have made me 6 months old, to the day!) on official Solicitor General of Canada memo paper.

The letter went missing for a while but Mom just found it again this week and I decided to google the name to see if I could find out who they were. Don’t know why I never thought of doing that before! Well I found the women’s name and in her bio for her government position, it says she is married with 6 children to another government official! Now I don’t know for sure if she’s still married to the same man but for the sake of keeping up the romantic notion, I’m going with hoping it is him :)

I’ll write it out in case it’s too hard to read…(my additions will be in brackets)

Dear Sweet Baboo,

          Here I am on a Monday night with little Arthur, knowing my S.B.B (?) was in Montreal and really missing her. I love you so much sweetheart. We have such a good life ahead of us.

         You’re not going to believe it. I’ve been watching a show that started at 8:30. It would finish at 9 and then I’d watch the movie. Well, it’s 9:30 and I just realized what time it is. SHIT.

         It’s pretty good. I think Ringo Starr has been perfectly cast.

         Sweet Baboo; do you think you’ll get tired of me one day? I hope you don’t. I have never been happier in my life. It’s sad that we had to spend so much time apart. Hopefully it’s almost over. The love that I give you will last forever.

        They’re making love now. It makes me think of making love to you. It’s so nice. You’re my princess Sweet Baboo.

        Tonight for dinner I had a coke, the lasagna and three pieces of bread. Not a bad dinner, eh?

        I have a good surprise for you this weekend. I want you to know that it’s for me, but it’s for you more. If I didn’t think you’d enjoy it then I wouldn’t have thought of it. We’re going to have FUN!! Look forward to it. It’s a surprise!

                              If I asked you to marry me again,

                                    WOULD YOU DO IT?

                                               YES, YES, YES (her answer)

                                   I love you my sweetest Baboo of the piperones (?) Your husband. J’aime (love in french)

If this isn’t the sweetest thing ever, I don’t know what is. I’m not putting their names here because I think it’s a pretty private thing, but I’m seriously considering emailing her and letting her know I have it. Then I start thinking that maybe she’s not with the same man and it might be a sensitive subject…who really knows. I know I would love to have this if it was me…

What do you think? Should I send it her way?

Chatting with Lucy

Lucy and I had a colouring date tonight and she was being especially cute so I grabbed a camera and got a video :) It’s kind of long but I think the cuteness is totally worth it! I can’t embed it so go ahead and click on the link, k?

http://player.vimeo.com/video/17995788

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What I’m listening to…

I fell into the timesuck that is youtube last week and after clicking a bunch of recommended videos discovered this guy William Elliott Whitmore. I’d never heard of him before but admittedly I’m not up to date on a lot music anymore so I could be the last to know about him. I’m just happy I found him :)

This is the first song I heard of his and I was blown away by his voice…I just wasn’t expecting it at all.

Here’s a goody…I love the way he interacts with the crowd.

You’ll need to skip ahead to 5:10 to get the song but the interview is pretty good too…well except maybe the Haiti comment ;)

Seriously, I think I may be a little in love with this guy…I can’t stop watching his videos. I would love to go to one of his shows, they seem like a blast. (like a blast? I’m obviously busting out the super cool lingo here, watch out)

I hope someone actually listens to these…I love sharing music I love, I just want everyone else to love it as well. This obviously won’t be the case but maybe someone will ;)

And here’s the playlist I’ve had on repeat lately.

http://www.youtube.com/p/2083ACB40107358F?hl=en_US&fs=1

What’s everyone listening to lately? I’d love to get some suggestions.

It doesn’t get better than this…

I had such a great day today! Usually a great day for me would be a quiet day alone to relax but it couldn’t have been any different from that today.My day started bright and early when I woke up at 5:45 to go to work :) Im super excited since I’ve been looking for work for a long time now, putting out resumes and applying to lots of jobs online, but it just so happens I get a job from good old-fashioned word of mouth. We live a very small town where you see a lot of the same people around and eventually you get to talking…well my Mom was talking to a couple who own the bakery and they mentioned they needed a new pastry chef. I went in yesterday to talk to the owner and I started this morning!! God I love  small town life :)

I had a great time even though I was really nervous. I haven’t worked in over two years so diving back into the workforce is stressful…wondering if I can learn new things fast enough, will I screw up and be fired? Well it turned out that I can learn new things! Mommy brain hasn’t completely ruined me ;) To be honest, it felt really great to get out of the house and do something different. Since the bakery is seasonal I only have two more days to do training before Christmas and then won’t start again until after Easter so I’ll still have the rest of the winter off which is kind of nice.

When I got off work Lucy, my Dad and myself headed out to meet my Mom for lunch at the church’s Christmas bazaar where she was working. We had an awesome lunch and visited with lots of people…fun all around :)

After a couple hours of relaxing at home we headed to another town to go on a wagon ride to see lots of beautiful Christmas lights, meet Santa and drink some hot chocolate. It was sooooo cold but Lucy was so amazed by all the Christmas lights it made it worth it. Everytime we would go past more she’s all “did you see those ones?!? I saw more! oooh aaah!” God it’s so exciting to see these things with her! This year she is much more interested and understands what’s happening so it makes Christmas a lot more fun. Needless to say she has me in the Christmas spirit :)

She really did not like Santa! We waited in line for probably 15 minutes and as soon as she got up front she freaked the f out! Absolutely refused to even go near him and clung to me and then my Mom like we were forcing her to pet a crocodile. There goes my plan to get free Santa picture ;) Also…completely forgot my camera so I have NO pictures from tonight…total Mom fail.

To make a perfect day even better she fell asleep on the way home and didn’t even wake up when I took off her snow suit :)

I know this is a lot wordy than I usually am  but I haven’t updated for a while…I also wanna mention that I started selling my diaper clutch’s, fabric flower headbands and t-shirt necklaces at a new consignment shop and I am so excited! I don’t know how they will sell (if at all) but I feel really good about them!  So think good thoughts for me and send out some selling vibes, please? It would mean a lot to me :)

So…now that I’m finally in the Christmas spirit I wanna know if everyone else is too! Are you all looking forward to the holidays so do you even really care?

Hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend!!

Here’s a peak at the headbands Im making in my favorite colour of all time! I might have to make one for myself ;)