Our Easter Weekend Love List

I've been wanting to get back into writing Love Lists, which I used to do much more frequently, and I think Easter weekend seems like a beautiful place to begin. Here it goes...

♥ Visits to Maple Fest

♥ When my mister's hair makes him looks like a Flock of Seagulls enthusiast

♥ A dog wearing a bowtie

♥ Otters!

♥ Easter morning egg hunts

♥ Making devilled eggs for the second time

♥ Bacon

♥ A girl on her brand new bike

♥ A busy, busy weekend with my little fam

Happy Easter, mes amis! Much love and fingers crossed for a gorgeous Spring ahead. Peace.

Love List

♥ Buttery new yarn, bamboo circular needles, a cowl in progress, Christmastime downtown, big mugs of coffee, blogging with friends, unwavering support, silly songs on repeat, dancing with my daughter, tights, tights, tights, kettle chips, chai lattes, power bars, heavy credenzas, balancing, breathing, candlelit showers, peppermint essential oils and heather grey socks.

Gretchen's Love List

♥ Adventures about the town with mama
♥ Making friends with the local park bear
♥ "Painting" with water on our front porch
♥ Lots of vintage necklaces from nana
♥ Slides, swings and anything climbable
♥ Sticks and ponds, water and wading
♥ Bike rides in the Chariot
♥ Cafe dates, cranberry juice and Earl Grey pound cake
♥ Snuggles, and lots of them

Easter Weekend Love List

Our Easter weekend in a nutshell an eggshell...
♥ Sunny afternoons in the park with Gretchen, watching Mourning Doves and Robins flit about
♥ Colouring Easter Eggs with onion skins
♥ Making muffins together, and squash, and Spanish Rice and all sorts of tasty delights
♥ Walks downtown and bus rides home, strolls through the park with stick & rocks in hand
♥ Dinner with my ma, a visit from gramma
♥ Bubbles, dolls, plastic eggs with stickers inside, and tiny toys and a bouncing chick






♥ Afternoon naps
♥ Peppermint tea with lots of honey (and drinking that tea on our front porch)
♥ Eggies, Jelly Bellys, Mini Eggs
♥ Visits with neighbour-dogs, climbing trees and rockpiles
♥ Gretchen's words to me, Sunday evening, post-bath... I love you! Happy Easter! Happy Easter, mummy!

The thing about these Love Lists is that I'm not supposed to say things like "the boy's weekend shifts make me want to cry" and "I have a sore throat and swollen glands and can't sleep", but sometimes I think I should add in these things in so that you're not all under the impression that things are permanently peachy in my neck of the woods. Honestly, this weekend had its ups and downs, and we got some "news" that is making life a little more, shall we say, interesting & challenging, so I'm going with the flow. I know that things will work out. They always do. Overall, our weekend was quite nice and each day that passes brings to light the fact that Gretchen is growing so quickly and is completely brilliant. Her sense of self, her vocabulary, her incredible stubbornness -- it's all there and it's all amazing. We've had some intense moments, this two year old and I, but I am seriously enjoying watching her morph into this wonderfully independent little person.

I hope your weekend was as full and as vibrant as mine. All the best.

Love List

♥ Mornings spent with friends, enjoying lattes, baby-wrangling
♥ Plaid shirts
♥ Bralessness
♥ New crayons for happy 2-year-olds
♥ The bits of my tattoo that peek out the bottom of my sleeve
♥ Combing a knot out of my hair with a fork because I couldn't find my brush
♥ Realizing it wasn't the first time I'd had to pull an Ariel
♥ Quiet afternoons and cups of tea
♥ A new vat of my favourite face cream
♥ Rekindling

The Christmas Eve Love List

♥ Basking in the glow of our beloved Christmas tree
♥ Enjoying a walk together in the park... just the three of us and all that snow
♥ Snapping photos of myself & the boy together (in which neither of us is making a silly face)
♥ Watching Gretchen run around in her little puffy pink snowsuit
♥ Spending the afternoon with family
♥ Listening to Gretchen's reaction to all the Christmas lights as we drive home
♥ Stopping to snap pics of one particularly fabulous home... in all its lit up & musical glory
♥ Snuggling the babe to bed with anticipation of a wonderful morning
♥ Enjoying a mellow evening with my boy
♥ Playing Santa & tiptoeing about
♥ Falling asleep happily... waiting for the dawn

Love List

♥ My overwhelming collection of mugs
♥ Movies starring Meg Ryan
♥ Slow dancing to Sinatra
♥ Rearranging my furniture
♥ Sleeping in
♥ Not wearing a bra
♥ Going to bed early
♥ Drinking lots of water
♥ Two deep purple eggplants growing in my garden
♥ Reciting movies, word for word
♥ Setting goals
♥ Ina May Gaskin
♥ Being a Canadian

Love List

♥ Wedding photography
♥ Posing for silly pictures with bridesmaids & their curlers
♥ Wearing a flower in my hair picked by the bride's eldest son
♥ Tearing up at wedding speeches
♥ One glass of red wine

♥ Dancing, dancing, dancing

♥ One beautiful summer night

Love List

♥ sunny days in the garden
♥ Birkenstocks
♥ losing myself in a novel
♥ honesty
♥ peanut butter & banana smoothies
♥ riding my bright red cruiser
♥ green tea
♥ black cardigans
♥ swing sets
♥ nursing under the covers & reading stories
♥ Goodnight Moon

Love List

♥ hand knit sweaters found at thrift shops
♥ finding sand in her shoes at the end of the day
♥ sunshine & soft breezes
♥ working from home
♥ laundry hanging on the line
♥ pets who are endlessly entertaining
♥ a partner who really gets me
♥ helpful family members

♥ coffee, coffee, coffee

♥ Arizone Iced Tea

♥ Chocolate

♥ planning my new vegetable garden

♥ planting strawberries from the market

Love List

♥ mail from Delia Jude
♥ celebrating Valentine's Day and Family Day with my two loves
♥ long talks about life, love & the future
♥ tasty homemade lattes
♥ Young's Double Chocolate Stout
♥ becoming reacquainted with my piano

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Love List

♥ relaxing in the tub by candlelight
♥ coffee with egg nog
♥ watching LOST with the boy
♥ the babe falling asleep on my chest
♥ all sorts of snuggling
♥ bulky sweaters with hoods
♥ my new sewing machine
♥ the joy of all things handmade