matthew’s world | Revolution of Love

– 1 –

First I want to start with an exciting take. I am going to be an aunt again. Yay! My little sis EML is expecting baby # 4 in April. Wow, she’ll have four children under the age of four. That scares the beejeebies out of me! But if anyone can do it, (and with with amazing results) my sister can!

– 2 –

Okay, and to put a smile on your face, here is a photo of my little niece Greta announcing the upcoming arrival of her sibling. How cute is she? I love the expression on her face. LOL!

– 3 –

My own little guy turned five months old this week. We’ve nicknamed him Mr. Smiley because he lights up whenever you talk to him. He’s a happy kid!

– 4 –

For the last five months I’ve been working to lose weight and get healthier. The good news is that I’ve lost all the baby weight and weight the same as when I got pregnant. Yay! The bad news is that I way the same as when I got pregnant. Boo. Now on Phase 2, I want to continue losing and get to a healthy weight. It’s a lot more than a few pounds. I hear other moms in a size 12 or 14 saying how fat they are blah, blah, blah. Save it, honey. Size 14 is my goal weight! Just saying…. 😉

– 5 –

I’ve been doing Weight Watchers and have been averaging a pound a week with just the food changes. I do better when I add in exercise but I’m still slacking on getting into an exercise routine. But I’m working on it.

– 6 –

You know, if I was to blow my diet I think this would be my weapon of choice – these chocolate and peanut butter brownies. Excuse me while I wipe the drool off my keyboard…

– 7 –

Okay, got a busy day ahead of me so I better get to work. Have a great weekend!

~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~

{pretty}

The other day I watching the 1946 movie Devotion starring Olivia de Havilland and Ida Lupino. It was an interesting story about the Bronte sisters. My all time favorite book is Jane Eyre so I was intrigued. I tend to forget about the third sister Anne and wanted to read her novel Agnes Grey. I checked out the local Borders store since they were clearing out all their merchandise (RIP, dear Borders.) I found this three volume book of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. Although I already have more than one copy of the first two books, it was too pretty (and too cheap) to pass up. It looks lovely on my bookshelf!

{happy}

Matthew has been turning over for about a month now and he just loves turning and scooting around the room. Here he is after a rather robust flip. He’s very proud and happy.

{funny}

Out of all the kids, John-Paul is the one most likely to conk out and fall asleep wherever he lands. Here is yet another episode of him doing that. This time it was the kitchen, with the iphone still playing. (He reminds me of my little brother NC who used to do that all the time. NC is a grown man now but he is JP’s godfather. I wonder if there is a connection? 😉

{real}

The other day it was a little too quiet in the boys room so I went to go see what JP was doing. Well, he found one of my dry erase markers and decided to mark his territory. Did you know dry erase does not wipe off walls easily?? I hope one of those magic eraser things work. (And now you know why he is always so tired. Mischief making is exhausting.)

~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~

{pretty}

Today is my birthday so Brian brought me these beautiful flowers along with a letter he wrote telling how much he loves me. Reading that is more than I could ever ask for. He is a gem. I am truly, truly blessed to be married to such a man and to be the mama to our children.

{happy}

I have lots of {happy} pictures this week. I received an early birthday present this weekend when my brother Rob, my sister-in-law Maria and my new nephew Max came to visit us. This is the first time I have been able to see Rob since he was really sick. A special thanks to all of you who were praying for him. I wanted you to see the answer to your prayers – he is much better now, thank God. Here he is with Matthew.

I was also happy to see the cousins meet for the first time. Matthew is a month older than Max but Max has a head start on size. They both are such cuties!! I love these photos of them together, and the one of my smiley boy as his usual cheerful self. Lastly, we were happy because my brother brought the So Calif sun with him. It was the first sunny day we have seen in a looong time!

{funny}

This morning I had errands to run in Carmel. I dropped Andrew off at speech therapy and then headed downtown to return our library books and go to the post office. I couldn’t figure what was going on because the street was roped off, there were police everywhere and people were lined up along the sides of the road with cameras and video recorders. It was as if they were waiting for a parade. Then it dawned on me. This weekend is the Pebble Beach Concourse d’Elegance and many of the fancy cars are being displayed in downtown Carmel this afternoon. Unfortunately, I happened to be on the road just as the cars were driving into town. The cops had us stop so all the cars could pass. I didn’t have my camera with me so I snapped a few pics on my iphone. Unfortunately, it is really gloomy today so the colors are very muted but the whole situation still made me laugh.

{real}

Last week I showed you a picture of our deck torn apart. This week I am happy to say that it is complete. We landed out forgoing the traditional wood flooring because it did not do well and instead put in a TimberTech composite wood deck. It looks nice and is super sturdy. The kids looove it! They run and ride their tricycle and scooters up and down and I’m happy that it is done without chipping paint or getting splinters! A special thanks to the hardworking guy who did it for us. He did a great job!

Revolution of Love

Do small things with great love.

Category Archives: matthew’s world

7 Quick Takes – 9/16/11

{pretty, happy, funny, real} – vol 12

{pretty, happy, funny, real} – vol 10: birthday edition