gratitude

I know I am a mother. I live it every day. I am very much in it. But every once in a while it just catches me off guard. Can this really be? But in a good way, a full of gratitude way. I look at the bathroom counter and there is a tiny blue toothbrush and a tiny pink toothbrush. Or sometimes, it is a glimpse of a small pair of shoes by the door.

I'm so grateful that my house has a small pair of shoes by the door, and two tiny toothbrushes by the sink.

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I also very much enjoy this very ordinary moment that John captured recently.

play

{this moment} nov 19

parade

miga

John and I took a special liking to the Vancouver 2010 mascot Quatchi, I mean what isn't there to love about a cute, cuddly sasquatch who loves hockey, photography, and travel and lives in Canada's mysterious forests?

So Anderson has accumulated, a big Quatchi and a little Quatchi, and a Quatchi with mittens. And then in a post-Olympic Games clearance sale impulse buy (not to say the Quatchi purchases weren't impulse purchases), I picked up a Miga and a Sumi. Now despite Quatchi's fuzzy, lovable, awesomeness, Miga became Anderson's favourite little friend. So Miga's been camping and riding tricycles and to the park and rolling around on the floor of the van. However, Miga's rush-to-ship, mass-produced, made-in-China mascot cuteness did not hold up well to toddler adventures. Her back split right open and she was dropping stuffing all over the van, campsites and the house. So after a long sleep in Mommy's sewing basket, she was finally repaired. I even made her a tartan sweater and hat out of some knee socks, so that she could almost be as cool as Quatchi...almost. Her first outing since her surgery was to the science centre. I think she enjoyed herself, and her cool new outfit.

lunch

I love this blog, another lunch, for so many cute ideas. Here's an attempt of mine, not as cute or creative but, it worked in the fact that Anderson was excited to eat his lunch. He thought to add the pea buttons and told me that the little guy was going to lie there on a steak pillow. Meava ate the rest of that bread, and I dipped the last bits of crust in some hummus. Everyone wins, yay!

sew sew sew

With the holidays coming and the weather making us all feel like going inside to nest, I'm thinking lots about things I can make. So many ideas, so little time. I guess we'll see what happens. I don't want to pressure myself or get too stressed about it, because the whole point is for it to be fun. I'm enjoying Sew Mama Sew blog for all kinds of wonderful things to add to that ever growing list of possibilities.

afternoon sun

{this moment} nov. 5

I kind of broke the rules today and put two photos, same moment, two photos. I know after my 4 years at Ryerson, you'd think I could edit. Editing: the greatest challenge of a photographer...and a photographer, photographing her kids, that is another editing challenge in itself.