love love love

Today is my 6 year wedding anniversary and it is the first time that I won't be spending it with my husband.

I loved our wedding!!! It was so simple and laid back and suited us just fine. We had a potluck affair with about a 120 guests and I walked down the isle to Bob Marley's 'Is this Love' - it was perfect!!! Of course there are always things you'd like to go back and tweak, but on the whole I loved our day.

So while I'm sad that he's not here and wishing that we could spend the day together, we were lucky enough to go out and celebrate when he was home. It was actually a trip down watery lane, as we took the water taxi from April Point to Painter's Lodge and had dinner up at the pub. 12 years earlier we took the same route from Painter's to the island the first time he came to Quadra to go to the Mayday dance. Ah, the memories.

So Happy Anniversary to my love, my best friend, and the most amazing man that I know - I love you!!!!

Weed free!!!

A lot has happened in the garden since I was on here last, but I just had to make sure that I put up an updated picture of the veggie bed. It looked pretty bad in my last garden blog and now all the weeds are gone!!! Yay!!! Took a little doing to get them all, but it's done!! (Actually, this was done over a month ago, but it's taken me this long to blog about it!!) Now we just need to get the veggies in there and we'll be set!! Can't wait!!! I'm hoping to make my own salsa this year with mainly ingredients grown by us - so tomatoes, a few different types of peppers, jalapenos, and herbs :) And of course there will be bruschetta too - mmmmm, we love bruschetta!!!

Veggie bed all weeded - those are the strawberries at the farthest end

Raking out the dirt. My little man was very into helping his Daddy with the rake...

...going for a 'ride' here it looks like. But either way he sure enjoys helping :)

Happy Mother's Day!!!!

Well it's your day Mom's...hope that you're being treated to an extra special day - breakfast in bed, no chores, time with your loved ones, or whatever it is that makes you happy on this day :)

I'm pretty lucky. I get to spend the day with my most favorite little man in the entire world and then will share part of the day with my Mom as well.

But happy happy love and joy to all of the Mom's out there - enjoy!!!

Good Times!!!!

My good friend M turned 30 on the weekend and to help her celebrate the two of us left our kids with their grandma's and went to town to indulge ourselves!!
The day started with coffee with friends, then followed by a little shopping and lunch and then we were off for pedicures!! Let me tell you, if you ever want to enjoy a little piece of heaven, go and have a pedicure at Eden Street Spa - OMG!!! It was fantastic!! The chairs we sat in had massage rollers and it was so nice getting our feet primped and rubbed and prettied up.

The two of us with our feet soaking

M enjoying her foot soak

Our beautiful toes :)

After our pedicures, we made a quick stop at the scrapbooking store before heading to our favorite sushi place for dinner...



Mmmmmm, green tea....




And sushi!!!!

Good Friends :)

So thank you for the fabulous day M, it was amazing and a very Happy 30th Birthday to you!!! It was so nice to see you and to get all the wonderful visits!!!

xoxo

Garden Progress

Hello, did you miss me?? Haha, probably not. But here I am :) I can't even remember when I blogged last, but it feels like it was forever ago since I posted on here. My excuse?? I have been busy gardening. Now that the days are warmer and the sun seems to be shining more, I have been finding myself more and more outside and I just love it.The other day we were out there and put in a little pathway and today my husband built a little fence to keep the little man and his Tonka truck OUT of the garden. He has recently decided what a great game it is to stomp on Mommy's lilies and iris's. So wasn't impressed with that one. But now he is out and my flowers are safe!!

'Star' Magnolia getting ready to bloom

Little Lilacs well on their way

Pathway through the garden and our new solar lights

I still need to finish weeding and re-defining the veggie bed, but my flower beds are sure starting to look nice. As you can see from the picture below, there are still a lot of 'lost' pots in our veggies patch, along with weeds that still need to be pulled, but it is coming along. A work in progress. So exciting!!!!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!!!!!

'Tis the season!!! And no, I don't mean Christmas. I'm referring to something that is just as magical and lasts for way longer. Have you figured it out yet?? I'll just end the suspense and tell you...tis the season for....

GARDENING!!!! Yes, that's right - gardening!!! I love gardening and that's what we were outside doing today. It was so nice to be out in the sunshine pulling up the weeds and tidying up the beds!!! There's still a long way to go until all the weeds are pulled and things actually look 'good', but it's a start.

Beautiful yellow crocus

Front bed - not much to look at yet, but you can see the rich dark soil beneath the weeds now!!!

Lots of Iris's on their way!!

Can you see the lilies popping up to say hello?? Can't wait for these!!

So here is to the most wonderful time of the year!!!! Hope you enjoy it as much as I do :)

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Hello everyone!!!!

I have been absent lately due to the fact that I'm in the process of getting a new computer...and good thing I borrowed my mom's or else I wouldn't be able to tell you about the exciting stuff going on over at Polluted Pixie - they are having a giveaway to celebrate their 1 year anniversary and the fact that they are now selling their amazing stuff on etsy. Please, go check it out...I promise you, you won't regret it ;)

Positive Thinking

My heart is a little heavy tonight with worry and stress over the fact that my little guy is sick. We went to the Dr this morning and discovered that his has an ear infection and were prescribed some antibiotics. I was really hoping that tonight would not be a replay of last nights crappy events, but so far ear infection/fever - 2, Mommy and babe - O.

So I need to channel my energy and focus on positive thoughts to keep myself from completely breaking down. There is nothing worse than watching your poor little one suffer and there is nothing you can do about it.

I was lucky enough to receive a beautiful gift from a friend for Christmas, a fridge magnet with an apache blessing on it. As I came out from the gaffer's room, after putting him back to bed after his 4th or 5th cooling bath today, it caught my eye and I just wanted to share it with you.

may the sun,
bring you new energy by day

may the moon,
softly restore you by night

may the rain,
wash away your worries

may the breeze,
blow new strength into your being

may you walk,
gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life.
- apache blessing

Despite the torrential down pour and gusts of wind that we had today, I would really appreciate some more rain and wind tonight, with a touch of moon ;)

Fairness??

Do you ever get those nagging feelings? Usually they are about something that you have forgotten or should be doing or that something is wrong. Well I have been feeling this way today and it sort of follows along the lines of choice number 3. It was just about a year ago now that I was a huge bitch and did some ranting and raving about a couple of people and ended up losing them as friends. But what is troubling me is that it wasn't all my fault (what I did was entirely my fault). Now I know I should just leave it all alone and get over it and for the most part I have. Seriously, I rarely ever give either of these people a second thought and have just left things alone. However, every now and then I can't help but relive the chain of events that led up to the big blow out. Like what I have been doing today. Do you ever find yourself doing this? Going over things that you should have left in the past ages ago and come up with valid points yet there is no point in doing so because there is nothing you can do about it now?? Not like I really want to do anything about it except try to exonerate my own name a little bit, but do you know what I mean??? It just feels wrong that I walk away as the horrible, rotten, awful friend and them the innocent victims. Doesn't seem fair. But then again life isn't fair, is it??

Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it. ~ Belgicia Howell

I have been thinking...

The name of my blog is Outrageous Orbab, but I am not really that outrageous...perhaps I should find another 'o' name that is more fitting for my blog??

What do you think?

So excited!!!

Once upon a time a friend of mine lent me a book on finances and getting out of debt and all that fun stuff. However she also sent a few other books along with that one and to be honest I never got around to reading it so it went back home with her. That seems like forever ago now and nothing has changed in my world financially.

Recently I reread a wonderful fluff book (fluff books are those that are easy reads that you could polish off in just a couple of hours if you want to) and despite the rather easy-goingness of it, I found myself feeling slightly uneasy about some of the similarities (Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella if you're interested. I just love her books. So much fun to read and just a really good little read. I've actually been reading a lot of her books lately.) Anyways...

This past week my Visa bill came in this mail and instead of just paying the standard amount like I always do, I decided to open it up and see what it had to say and I was appalled. There in the sidelines was the horror that if I kept on just paying the minimum amount every month it would take me 49 years to pay off my Visa.
49 YEARS!!!!!
I couldn 't believe it!!!! So needless to say I decided right then and there that something had to change.
And now I have a plan :) A very very good plan. And it's funny because I'm following guidelines from the very lady who wrote the book that my friend lent me in the first place.
But I am SO excited!!! It feels good to have a plan and for things to hopefully be significantly better if not resolved in 3 years rather than 49!!! Can you even imagine, 49 years to pay off a Visa bill???!!!?!?!?!!! No way!!!

Tree Hugger

Well it was a nice winter's day and we went for a walk at the spit. The sun was out (although it wasn't around for long) and it was so nice to get out and get some fresh air. As we were going along, I thought it would be cute for the little guy to hug a tree. Well little did I know that it would become some big thing...

Before you knew it, he was hugging EVERY tree!!!

It didn't matter what size the tree was, he tried to get his little arms around them all!!!

This one gave him a bit of trouble, but was still able to give it a little snuggle ;)

Awesome awesome awesome

I went to Nanaimo to visit a friend the other day and had a marvelous time!! While I was there I had the luxury to go out and see a movie. I can't even remember the last time I went to the movies and when I try and conjure up the last movie I did see, Sex and the City is what keeps coming to mind and if the really was the last time I went then wow, very sad. But I left baby with Grandma and my friend K and I went out on the town for a little shopping and a movie. What we ended up seeing was the amazing and fantastically brilliant Black Swan, and it has been on my mind ever since!!! It was awesome and I loved it!!! I thought Natalie Portman was phenomenal (despite the skin and bones look she was sporting) and to be honest it was really great to see Mila Kunis in a role other than Jackie on that 70's show. So ya, I really enjoyed it. Have you seen it? If so, what did you think?

Have you seen this bed???

Well not literally this bed, but the bedding.

I think it was a few months ago, although I can't be quite sure, but I found this picture in a flyer. I saw it and immediately fell in love with it. I love bold prints like that and you can't go wrong with that color green ;)

Anyways, I decided that I was buying myself a new shower curtain and thought while I was in town I would see if I could find the bedding I wanted. Well, do you think I could find it?? I have looked at the store, online, through the designer's website - nothing!!! It's as if this set doesn't even exist!!! So frustrating!! It's probably from last season or something, but how annoying!!!

It happened

So I have already fallen off the wagon.
I had the brilliant idea that I would put new sheets on my bed every Sunday. I almost forgot the week before last to do it but lucky for me, one of my cats puked on the bed so I was forced to not only change my sheets but my quilt as well. YUCK!!!! However, I had no such reminder this past Sunday (thankfully) and here we are at Wednesday already and I still haven't changed my sheets yet.
Is that gross??
How often should one change their sheets??
At least it's just me sleeping in them and most nights I have a bath before bed, but I should probably put the new ones on at some point today...right?? Because it's probably gross to have sheets on your bed for 2 weeks?? Who knows. I'm just glad that I didn't make some really big important resolution to cure world hunger or something like that, because that's usually what happens with resolutions. You have all these great intentions and things start off great for a week or two, and if you're lucky even longer, and then poof, you fall off the wagon. Just. Like. That.

Patch Works!!!!

And I mean just that - the patch works!!!

For the past 6 months or so we have been patching the little gaffer's stronger eye (his right one) with a patch for around 2 hours a day to allow the weaker eye, his left, to get stronger. Sometimes we are only able to do it for an hour or less and sometimes unable to do it at all if. But for the most part manage to get at least and hour and a half to two hours in most days and it has obviously worked!!! We had an appointment with the eye Dr. the other day and sure enough, the little gaffer's left eye has improved a little bit and he now has a lesser prescription on the left side. The patch works!!! So exciting :)

Hello, what is your emergency??

Well he finally did it!!! After who knows how many times playing with the phone my little gaffer finally ended up calling 911. Normally he likes to hit lots of 2's and 5's but not this time. We were sitting there and I casually looked over to see what he had pushed and I could see the 9 and then a 1 followed by another 1 and he added one more 1 for good measure and there was the little word talk about that and I instantly grabbed the phone and hit end. I knew they would call back. They always do. So I just waited patiently until they did and then apologised my ass off. So embarrassing. But I'm sure that must happen to them a lot though. I know of numerous people who have had similar experiences. I wonder, do you think they charge you for those??

Reflection

I'm not even sure where to start, but I just wanted to say how lucky and grateful I am. I feel like I don't write enough 'happy' blogs and that I'm always complaining or bitching about this or that. I would have to go back and actually take a look to see what I have written lately to know whether this is true or not. But over the past couple of days a few things have come to light that made me realize just how fortunate I am. I have an amazing husband who is working away from home to better our family and even though I have been missing him like crazy and wishing for nothing more than my best friend, I know that there are people out there who have either lost their best friends or have come close to it. I don't know what I would do if I ever lost him and I'm sure he knows this, but I love him so much and I am so grateful that he's in my life. Then there is that beautiful little creature who is sound asleep in the other room - I can't even find the words to express how much that little boy means to me. True, I did call him awful the other day, but he's really not. He is awesome and such a character and means everything to me. He is my world and I would do anything for him. And I have this friend who has a little girl, not much older than my little guy, that is sick and it breaks my heart. I just felt awful because here I was complaining about the fact that my little guy went sour on me and was miserable and here is this amazing friend of mine dealing with her daughter in the hospital. I'm not saying that what I was going through that day wasn't something but it just really put things into perspective.
So I just wanted to say how grateful I am for my family and my friends and for all the good things in my life. It is not without its flaws and imperfections, but I am so lucky.
And to my friend, you are amazing and your strength and love is so inspiring. I look forward to the next time we can get our little munchkins together for a visit. Hope your little angel feels better soon. We're thinking about you. xo

Awfully cute or just awful???

The answer today is: AWFUL!!!!!

Normally I would tell you how awfully cute my son is, but today he is being just awful!!!! And it's weird too because he woke up so happy and ready to play and have fun and then somewhere along the way he just went sour on me. God, I hate when that happens. I'm really hoping that the burst of fresh air from being out at the spit and a refreshing nap will cure the awful out of him!!! Here's hoping anyways...

Flight fright

So I have never really been a fan of airplanes. There is something just so unnatural about them - big chunks of metal with little to no room flying through the air at obscene speeds and heights - talk about freaky!!! I mean, if we were supposed to fly we would have been born with wings. Doesn't help that I haven't been on one since I was in grade 3, but that is besides the point. They just really freak me out and I don't like them. However airplanes have become something of a regular occurrence in my world. Well not mine, but my husbands. When he goes to work, he ends up taking 3 or 4 planes to get from here to there and ya, I am just so glad that it's not me doing all that flying. Anyways, I've just been thinking a lot about planes lately and a book I was reading last night had some crazy turbulence incident in it where people were flying out of their seats and hitting their heads and there was blood everywhere and that didn't really help my 'love' for planes either (especially when hubby still needing to take one last flight this morning). But does that even happen?? Turbulence sending people flying out of their seats?? I may never get on a plane :S

Bring on 2011!!!!

Happy New Year!!!



So I don't know about you, but I am SO happy that 2010 is over!!! It's not like it was a horrible year or anything, but it really wasn't the greatest. So I am very glad to see it over and done with and that a new year is here :) I really like 'odd' years and looking back they've actually been the best to me, so hopefully 2011 doesn't let me down. (No pressure or anything 2011, lol).

As you know, most people like to make new year's resolutions. I however don't really believe in them. I think it is a bunch of hooey to be honest. That being said, there are some things I would like to work on this year. For example, I would like to be more patient, change the sheets on my bed every Friday or Sunday or which ever day I decide to do it on, drink more water...things like that. Things that I should actually be able to stick to. I find sometimes that people come up with some really unrealistic expectations of themselves and just end up letting themselves down in the end.

Anyways, hope your year is off to a good start so far. Mine has been a little chaotic as we've been busy organizing and putting things into storage. But hopefully a de-cluttered house will lead to a de-cluttered mind, here's hoping anyways.

Wishing you a year of good health, happiness, love and laughter.
xoxo