For My Mum :)

The past two weeks I can't stop thinking about Mum. All that she does, all that she gives, all that she taught me, and all that she expresses left a permanent and perfect example of a wonderful mother in my mind.
I'm constantly trying to emulate her as best I can because she has so much grace, selflessness, intelligence, humility, the perfect amount of sternness, limitless joy, and humor.

~ I love my Mum ~

[look at that little buggar]

I love that after 23 years of knowing her she still surprises me with a new piece of her luminescent personality

• I love how honest she has been with me all my life
• I love how much freedom she gave me growing up - as if she knew that God was my nanny, rather than appointing someone to watch me at all times [would have made playing deep in the woods, falling into rivers, and exploring a lot harder to accomplish :) ]
• I love that she gave me three of the best sisters a girl could ask for!
• I love that I still get to talk to her and write her whenever I need it even though she's all the way in Australia... or as Doug and I like to call it: the Future [14 hours ahead, it's crazy]
• I love that a few parents that I nanny for tell me that I have an accent when I talk to their kids and say things like "mummy" or "it's ok" [typical Mum phrases, I can't believe I picked up an accent without spending more than one year in Aus.]
• I love that in spite of all the wonderful things she does - she takes no credit for it - she gives all credit to God

To sum it up so that this post isn't 50 pages long

I LOVE everything about my Mum

I hope she had an amazing Mother's Day weekend, I told her Caitlin would have to represent us yankee sisters - I'm sure she did a good job :)


Here's a song I dedicate to Mum:

[Spice Girls will never get old to me - poor Doug whenever we go on a road trip...]

Here's one last cute picture of me Mum, just imagine little Lucia saying "I love you Mum," 

looking like this, right before a Big Rooker Hug:

* Happy Mother's Day *

PS: It is also someone else's special day today in Australia - Adrian [Mum's Hubby] 

Happy Birthday Adrian

You have no idea how much love we have for you over here in the States :) Thanks for keeping my Mum smiling, laughing and loving - it only makes sense to me that such a sensational woman found an equally incredible man to spend the rest of her life with. 

Lots of Love Adi!!!

[last one, sorry - got a little scanner happy :P]

Trip to Steelville

When my sister Monica invited me to go to a banjo concert in Steelville, MO 

Like any other person with a pulse... I jumped at the chance

I mean, look how cute this location is!! It is an old fully restored soda fountain shop on Steelville's main street that I completely fell for hard [I fall for any place that makes delicious malt shakes :)]

The uber skilled banjo/guitar/violin player had his adorable wifey there who was also musically inclined and played a few songs with him. We liked her, she was sassy :)

It was a pretty rad time-warp type night. 

Since we were so far from home [a whole 1 1/2 hours :P] Moni and I spent the night at her mom-in-law's farm that we lovingly call "The Farm" 

I love visiting this place, and waking up to this:

So yes, I certainly got my fill of puppies, horsies, kitties, nature 

and fresh baked apple muffins last weekend

Thank you Moni!!!

See Us Young Lovers in Motion!

And on that date from a million months ago :)

Ok.... no more posts from this particular day - nothing more to share!!

Remember When....

I made that teaser post...

and then a month and a half went by.......

and nothing happened??

I am so sorry about that, my iphone decided to hold all my pictures and clips hostage at the time and my way of handling it was thinking "it will fix itself, I just need to give it some time"

My phone did NOT fix itself, time proved not to be helpful

What was more not helpful was my neglecting ze updates..... 27 of them in fact

Yeah - that was a fun iGeek appointment: 

"I see you have some updates to do - lets load those up by clicking this button - easy - done - all fixed! I *am* a genius."

[In my head]: "NO!! No you're not, I'm just *that* stupid of an iphone user."

So finally - all fixed - I got ALL my photos and clips in..

Would you like to see all that our day-date included?

* Jealous puppy *

* My ideal body-type *

* "GUUULGH!!!! [hahaha] *

* Radioactive kitties *

* My new teapot *

* Big freaking sword!! *

* Lunch at Carl's Drive-in *

[go there now!]

THE END!!!

WednesDate Teaser

Babysitting

AKA: The joys of being owned by a 5th grader at JUNIOR MONOPOLY

[and she was so well mannered the whole time - I've never enjoyed losing more!]

* see the gaping difference between our money piles??

All in all it was such a fun night!

- We made burrito nachos

- wash, dried, folded and sorted five loads of laundry

- played UNO

- did the dishes

- watched Harry Potter 4

..... oh my gosh, we did so much! 

Great Saturday

En français, s'il vous plaît!

Doug and I purchased one of these!

Ahh oui! Fait en France

Now - I've heard these things were pretty sweet, I've seen them alllll over Food Network and have wanted one for a while....

But I had no idea they were this wonderful!! Our breakie cinnamon rolls slid right off! 

We were both in shock - happy hungry shock :)

Add a little hazelnut coffee in a Chicago Bears mug

And boom - un parfait breakfast for two!

C'était très très bon

More New Good Things

What could it be?

What ever could it be???

AHH!!! A new purse! Yayy!!

Lucia Likey

Anyone who knows me knows that I have needed a new purse for a while 

- in fact I just needed my OWN purse -

My last purse was a total fluke freak accident when a lovely college roommate of mine lent me a purse to borrow for winter break and then never really wanted it back - Sooooo my free/stolen purse was shiny navy blue and received a lot of compliments, which I never took credit for

Then it started to fall apart on me [deservedly so] and the navy blue flaked away to reveal the brown underskin of the bag - NOT a great look 

The purse I had before that was a brown canvas satchel that I took way too long to throw out after it had been sun-damaged from hanging out in my car's backseat for too long

I have never had more than one purse at one time

I have never really gone out shopping for a purse before - they've all just been "Woops! I have a purse!" type deals

.... I'm not a big "Purse Girl" I guess

But fortunately Natalie had a very esspensive gift card to Coach that she said I could use if I found anything that struck my fancy

Last night at the mall I asked Doug if we could poke through Coach to see if ANYTHING was up to my picky purse standards - first purse that caught my eye, tried on, loved, got it, boom

Thank You Thank You Natalie Dearest!!

Now I won't look so ratty in interviews and life :)

Oh yeah...

I GOT A CAR!!!

She's red so I instantly decided to call her "Sox"

I like 'er :)

The Oscahs!

Like my sister Natalie - I nerded out BIG TIME last night:

I pinned my hair to one side [took like 20 seconds]

Wore gold - the lucky Oscar winning color

And purple - MY favorite color

And a skirt to be fancy :)

When Doug cae home from work I had quite a spread for us

Pasta with combination sauce - garlic bread made with sourdough bread [once again, out of this world] - sparkling white grape juice - candlelight - champagne flutes with "W" engraved on them [thank you Men's Warehouse!] 

And for dessert:

I bought only "fancy treats" 

~ Cookies and Cream Drops

~ Andes Mints

Puppy hung out with us too :)

Wonderful Night at the Oscahs!!!

Thursday Morning Breakie

Yum!!! 

[note: Sourdough bread from Whole Paycheck makes EVERYTHING taste better -

grilled cheeses, french toast, and of course - eggies in a basket!]