Calmly Chaotic

Have you read anything good lately?  Anything that I might love?  Something that you couldn't put down?

I need one of those... this is soo good I'll forget that there is a million inches of snow out with no end in sight... types of books.

I mean I'm not that hard to please....

let me be…

I have a serious case of the winter take two blahs.  I mean we could see our back deck just a few days ago and now all we see is snow.  Clearly the groundhog was wrong this year.  Winter is here for a while more.

Of course I have a few things around to keep me smiling... two of them being of the b…

Yeah Andrew threw that line out there the other day.... something along the lines of Ash... you have the appetite of a lumberjack.  I initially took offense.  But I think it's kind of true.  I eat constantly and find myself strategizing throughout the day what I will eat next.  It's kind of…

I've always believed that you have to put effort into something to make it good and if you want it to keep being good, you have to keep putting that effort in.

Enter TV free tuesdays.

A few weeks back Andrew and I had a date night (funny how I use to think the term date night was a corny term…

Oh what a wonderful week.

If only Andrew could take a day off work every week...



this was our Valentine's Day...



We played inside.  We went for a long walk outside.



I took a million pictures...







We opened presents...





and Andrew cooked... and made chocolate dipped strawberries... with PC the deca…

We started off by feeding the girls in the bumbo... on top of our dining table... yes yes I know.... never put a bumbo on top of a table... sketchy... but we did it... well supervised of course... while we were waiting for our boon flair high chairs to arrive...

and arrive they did.


Heidi is guardi…

I woke up this morning and Andrew was going to get up to get ready to go to work... only he didn't

he surprised me by booking the day off... to spend Valentine's day with us...

did I mention that he's making spaghetti + meatballs for dinner tonight... as I type...

i love this man.

happ…

step one... approach the person / cat of interest...


step two: establish something in common... in this case a mutual desire to see what exactly the other breathing being is...


step three: dive right in with abandon...


if only it was this easy for everyone.

I know... I wasn't here yesterday, or the day before, or the day before...  but today I am somewhere else... online that is.  Michelle from Barla Banana asked me to share my infertility story over on her blog.  Michelle is a fellow Canadian and her shop carries some great brands.  She also blog…