friday's five ~ link love

today is a lovely day.  the sun is shining and there were birds chirping.  yes it is february 3 and there are birds.  we've had the mildest winter i've seen in many many years.  it's going to be so nice this weekend that we're even thinking of a trip to the zoo. 

it's been many'a moon since i last did a finding friday.  for obvious reasons.  but here are a few things that have been floating around my brain lately.  it's totally a random mishmash.  but that seems to be the norm these days. 

in love with the idea of this lilac nursery and gorgeous tree if we are having a a bebe girl

got a sewing machine for christmas from the husband and this cape is going to be my first project.  can't wait for liam to fly around the house saving his toys

loved this post about moms and sons

then i found this one ... it made me laugh and cry at the same time

i see a bowl full of this in my near future

happy friday.  happy weekend.

another reason

i have to admit something.  one of my blog resolutions was to make sure that when i'm blogging is to keep it true to me.  in order to do that then i have to admit that there is one more reason why i wanted to come back and starting writing documenting again.  not that my other reason (blogging because i want to) isn't enough.  there just really is another underlying reason.  i blog because i want to have a place where i can document things that are important to my family and to me.

and this is definitely something important! 

surprise!!  we're going to parents again and liam is going to have a little br-ister (what we're calling baby until we find out what flavour it is).  this was something that was not planned, not even a thought really.  to be honest we were a little freaked out when those two pink lines showed up on christmas eve morning.  can you tell?  i'd been feeling really sick.  really tired.  and was a little late.  it was the husband's idea to pee on the stick.  talk about getting a good christmas present.  i think we hit the jack pot.  although unplanned, we are over the moon excited about adding to our family.  we absolutely. are.

it's just, we had a plan.  i know.  i know.  life isn't a plan.  things happen because they're supposed to and this my friends was supposed to.  truthfully, we are only six months ahead of when we were "planning" to start trying again.  this way we'll be out of diapers six months earlier.  teething will be finished six months earlier.  and liam will get to have a playmate six month sooner.  i am completely freakin' excited for him to be a big brother.  he already points to my tummy when we ask him where the baby is.  i know he has no idea what it means but it's super cute.  also, adding a baby into the mix just makes for a more exciting year.  new house.  new family member.  2012, the year of change.  bring it on.

so there you have it.  my final reason for coming back to my blog.  so i guess that mean every week there'll be a belly update.  i'm just over 9 weeks and totally showing.  no one told me that you show so much faster in your second pregnancy ... and things like morning night time sickness are much worse ... bleck!

happy happy tuesday.  

hello again

i didn't really intend to ditch the blog for so long, but sometimes we're just having a good time doing other things.  that being said, taking such a long break actually made me realize that i do actually enjoy (and missed) blogging.  i enjoy sharing bits and pieces of my life to the world, and love that there are those of you out there that enjoy hearing about them.  before i took my bloggy vacation i was struggling to find time to blog and really a reason why i liked to blog ... other then for the sake of just blogging.  i mean, that can't just be the only reason right?  wrong.  oh. so. wrong.  why can't i blog because i want to?  so, because it technically is still january, and resolutions can still be made.  my blogging resolution is to blog because i enjoy it.

something else i learned when i took a step back was that i don't have to blog everyday because other people do.  i can blog once a week if i want.  profound i know.  really.  this was something i was laying awake at night thinking about.  seriously, thoughts of blog posts would go through my brain at 3'o clock in the morning.  not the best use of my time.   my stepping away allowed me to come to terms with the fact that i don't have to be like everyone else and i can blog on my own terms.  and really why would i want my blog to be like someone else?  again, this was also one of my profound blog enlightenment's.  i think i got caught up in what other's were doing on their blogs, not in a bad way, and thought i should try things like them.  but then that's not me.  and that's not what i want for my blog.  second blog resolution, keep my blog true to me and blog on my terms.

i'm really happy to be back in the blog'o'sphere.  i did miss it.  truly.

p.s.
in case you didn't notice...we got a facelift!  liam's auntie mel put this together and it's totally fantastic.  thanks a million mel, you rock our world.