Card and Stuff

Posted on | August 27, 2009 | 30 Comments

Wow, I made a card! I haven’t had a lot of craft time since I started work again last week. Actually I haven’t had a lot of time period! I walked into my craft room the other day and I was so surprised to see it nice and tidy. Even the desk was clean! It felt good making this card but boy, I’ll probably pay for it later this evening!!! So here’s a Christmas card using Dawn’s colors for this week. The card’s inspired by Moxie Fab: vintage and I think it can past for clean and simple too. What do you think?

The stuff… my poor Emma… ya know, the kid in the picture above… school’s just rough for her! I thought I had it bad when the girls use to gang up on me cause I was bi-racial but goodness, nobody ever told my daddy, right on his face, that I was ugly.

Yesterday hubby picked M up from school, the after school program to be more exact. While M was getting her backpack and stuff, this girl came up to my hubby and told him this: Your little girl has an ugly face. My husband loves kids. Kids love him too but when he heard that he automatically went into fight mode and all sorts of bad things ran into his head and if looks could kill, that little girl would have been a goner! It was his sweet little M that the girl was referring to and nobody messes with his little baby girl!!! But he didn’t do anything although he did say: It’s like the pot calling the kettle black, huh? Instead, he just looked at the teacher (who also heard and was in shock) and asked her to do something with that girl.

So my kid’s eccentric. Sometimes, when she comes downstairs her clothing choices would just shock me but she loved every bit of how she looked and that I’m cool with. She’s confident about her decisions and I’m proud of her for that (of course if she wants to wear a bikini to school I’d have a say in it but so far she’s modest… just colorful). Plus, despite her colorfulness (she reminds me of Punky Brewster) she’s not at all ugly. Nothing she wore has ever made her face look anything but beautiful. What makes her more special is that she’s also beautiful on the inside. She thinks everybody’s beautiful and she treats everybody equally.

Hopefully school will be a positive and safe place for her to learn. I hope things will get better (being slapped last week was shocking too) and if not, we’re glad that we’ll be moving soon and hope that the next school (hopefully with nuns in them!) will be better.

I Like* You

Posted on | July 28, 2009 | 14 Comments

That’s what we use to write/say when we were dating and haven’t said the BIG “L” word. You know, when you read something and there’s an asterix next to it, there’s usually some sort of disclaimer or more info on that item. So it was our way of saying more than like {::SMILES}.

Fast forward and it’s now our 6th anniversary. Time sure flies when you’re having fun! So many things have happened too since then and they’re all great! We’re very very lucky and I am thankful each and everyday. Like I said the other day, don’t think our relationship’s all peachy, we do have our down time and we have habits that annoy the heck out of each other but we somehow make up and things are great again.

I wish I can share a wedding picture but I don’t have any. WHAT? Well, we never had a nice white wedding. Actually we almost didn’t have a wedding because hubby had to go to work (military time ya know). But we did, legally and without anybody dear with us that day. There were two reason why we did what we did: Miss M and we’re both divorced Catholics.

For a couple years we’ve contemplated on getting annulments so that we could do a church wedding but for different reasons we couldn’t. I won’t share hubby’s reason but mine you can probably guess… my ex and I are the bestest friends and finding a good reason for an annulment have been really hard. Plus, we don’t want to pretend it didn’t exist.

Now, I still wish for a white wedding (and I’m always drooling over other people’s wedding pics) but I don’t know, it’s been six years. Seems silly ya know. Hubby knows how much I love France and since we’ll be moving to England he said I can plan a vow renewal there. I think I’d like that. Something very very very small but memorable and shared with the kids…

Anyhow, that’s my wedding story. The day of the marriage was not memorable (except for the fact that we almost couldn’t do it) but the relationship that we’ve had from the day we met to today has been. That’s what matters right? I mean a white wedding doesn’t always guarantee a happily ever after. So, happy anniversary to us. It might not have started with a bang but I hope it’ll stay wonderful!

Nuff of that… here’s a card that I made for the husband. I should have used the asterix but I did this instead:

For our anniversary we left the kids at daycare and went out to lunch. After lunch we bought us a nice leather sofa, chair + ottoman. This is our 2nd big household purchase… the first was our sleep number bed. The next is a TV, in the UK since a US one won’t work there. Our current one is from 1999 or so.

Have a great week all! Til next time!!!

Anniversary Idea

Posted on | July 23, 2009 | 12 Comments

Next Tuesday is our 6th anniversary. Wow, feels like 15 ha ha ha… But we have no idea what to do since we have a newborn. We can’t leave her with a friend for a late night deal or for an extended all day deal. Anybody has a suggestion? I do want to do something special since he’s a special guy in many ways (although don’t get me wrong, there are days where I want to kick him out the door he he he). He’s so special that he even makes me handmade cards. The above was a birthday card and remember this one (it’s peaking out from behind the Snuggle card) from last year’s mother’s day?

We love celebrating our anniversary for many reasons but one big reason is that we managed to have another great year without killing each other and look forward to another one (without killing each other). Hubby and I are polar opposites. Hubby’s friends are often surprised after they met me… just not what they expected. For example I’m a sweetie and he’s an asshole. That’s right! My husband is brutally honest. That’s why our conversations are often times so colorful and interesting. So those who doesn’t know him well might take him as anything but nice. But, once you get to know him, you can expect an honest answer from him. But when it comes to old ladies… goodness, he’s a sweetheart. Old ladies LOVE LOVE LOVE him. And kids too. He’s totally sweet with them and half wants to go home with him he he he…

But despite our difference we somehow click and we work well together. He’s what I’m not and vice versa. We do have our arguments… most are stupid (like how lousy I am at cleaning or how he has very selective memory) or how we raise our kids (I’m more into education and he’s more into experience and real life stuff) but hey, that’s marriage, right? As long as we work things out and we make up soon after then all’s good.

Anyhow, I just rambled there… but if you have any idea on what we can do, that’d be awesome. Should we do a family thing or leave the kids with somebody? Ahhh… I know hubby would rather have me to himself… and not smell like spit-up ha ha.

I Bruised Jovie

Posted on | July 3, 2009 | 11 Comments

NOT! But it looked it.

We were outside enjoying the sunset a few days ago and here’s our conversation…

Hubby: Is that a bruise on Jovie’s forehead?
Me: (I looked and analyzed) Ha ha… no. It does look it huh?
Hubby: What is it?
Me: It’s poo stain. She had a blow-out and I had to take her outfit off and I took it off over her head.
Hubby: You are so gross.
Me: Not gross, it was an accident. (Pause) Man, I should have said yes to the bruise and have you kiss her boo-boo.
Hubby: I hate you
Me: (Laughing my ass off)

Can you imagine my poo phobia hubby kissing Jovie’s forehead thinking it’s a bruise? If he did though I’d probably be in the process of going towards single mom lane he he…

Just a little page that I did last night while M was watching Donald Duck and Jovie was with dad. Remember I’ve been trying to use up my scraps and so everything was what I found in my scrap box. The bird is from Studio Calico. It’s from one of their fancy discount coupons. I thought it was so pretty and so I saved the coupon. The picture is of my dog Kato (which I later called K — man, I have a habit of coming up with a one letter name, huh?), my first child. This picture was taken almost 7-years ago when hubby and I were still in Idaho. Ahh… those were the days… when we could just go wherever whenever {::SMILES}.

Have a great weekend!! Have a nice 4th of July and stay safe!!!

Lucky Me…

Posted on | May 27, 2009 | 7 Comments

To have these two in my life. I can’t wait to meet our new addition. I think we’ll name her baby J… but not sure. We’ll know when we see her. I never thought I’d be mom and here I am with one and another coming next week (I hope!). It’ll be challenging and tiring but very well worth while.

The hubby said he wished we have more pics of him and I together but hmmm… I’m just too camera shy. I rather be behind the camera. I was always told growing up that I wasn’t very photogenic. So I’m quite self conscious when it comes to picture time. Maybe one day…

That’s it, just a little personal post.