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hello hello! i'm cat, and this is my (our) blog. i write a lot about motherhood and try to find the creative in our day to day lives. i also may share photo sessions as they come my way or a photos series i may be doing as a personal project. maybe a new recipe we're all loving at the moment. instagrams and dr. seuss quotes. this is also a space for me to just write. i've always been a lover of words. grab a cuppa brew and have a browse. cheers.

thanks to christie, our awesome sitter who the kids adore, we’ve had a few dates recently! we’ve only been out, just the two of us, a handful of times since moving here. it’s so nice to just walk and talk, grab tea, whatever! without the kids. sometimes the simplest errands can either take forever or not be so simple with the kids. not complaining, just the way it is sometimes. it does make me sad though when theo realizes we are trying to sneak out and abruptly bursts into tears and momma! cries.

i am calling this a ‘day date’ only because the sun was out the entire time we were out. we didn’t leave till 6 and only stayed out till 8 because matt’s knee has been giving him problems and he didn’t want to be up and about on it for long. but the point is: the sun is staying out longer! spring is on it’s way. couldn’t be happier about that. because we are procrastinators, our day date found us two days before evelyn’s birthday with no presents for her. so it consisted of play kitchen shopping after grabbing tea. i had my heart set on an adorable wooden kitchen from ikea, but toys r us is 5 blocks away so we decided to try there first. lucky for us, we found a very similar wooden kitchen, and grabbed the last one. and then it took matt 3.5 hours to put together ha!

as much as i want to give my kids everything and make them happy, i hesitate on going overboard for a few reasons. one, it’s expensive. two, i hate a bunch of plastic crap and little pieces all over our apartment. we live in a pretty tiny space, and toys go in their room, so we have a limit. and three, i’m not sure making them “happy” is actually the most beneficial thing we can give do for them. there are so many other “things” i want them to be, too. kind. aware. compassionate. thoughtful. joyful. passionate. this is hard for me. mainly because making them happy is actually quite easy, but a lot of the time it requires giving in to their whining to guarantee their momentary happiness and my immediate sanity. which is sometimes completely necessary. i believe in choosing your battles. but i’ve been thinking lately that maybe i give in to too many battles, and don’t fight the hard ones. the ones that need to be fought to help them become better people. raising kids is never simple, is it?!

hope everyone has a wonderful wednesday!

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just had to include this picture because my hot date above called them roses. i think every man might think every flower is a rose.
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it’s odd, and amazing, to watch my little people grow into the people they will become. their preferences, idiosyncrasies and traits. the way he gets so mad when he’s embarrassed, and the way she likes her cake. to this day i prefer vanilla icing and rainbow sprinkles. i can already see we are so much alike.

with one kid just turning four and the other about to be two, i had to remind myself that this is just what happens: time moves on. kids grow up. i won’t be mommy forever. always mom, but not little-hand-wrapped-around-my-neck mommy for long. which is why i take pictures. to remember. and smile.

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