{celebrating you}

Dear Little One,

we had a little birthday party for you on Sunday. Despite everything, I decided that we wanted to share this momentous occasion with our closest friends and your friends to be. That even though the worst possible has happened to your mama this year, with that the best happened too. And without you in my life at this point i couldn't have survived. So i wanted to celebrate you, the joy u are to us, the happiness you bring to our lives every single day. I wanted to say that sometimes the best things in life come along with the worst things and we have to survive, because this is life and this is what were meant to do, to keep living our lives when it absolutely feels like we couldn't go on. I wanted to celebrate your presence in our lives disguised as a little birthday party and you loved it. Conversing with the babies who came, crawling around in the backyard, saying baba baba over and over again, hanging out with the older kids, walking around in your wobbly little way, you were the picture of a happy little baby, mA. Thank you for helping me move on, thank you for giving a reason to my days, thank you for everything. I love you always and forever. Your nana is smiling at you today, i can tell:)






Update: Many of you asked about the fabric garland, so I thought I’ll share a little about it. It was made using cut up old tshirts tied over a piece of twine. I tied them up using this tutorial I found via pinterest. And I loved how it turned out. Hope that helps!

Another Update: We were so excited when this little party was featured on Apartment Therapy. Check it out.

Thanks for stopping by!

its been too long

I’m sorry I completely forgot about this world of mine for a while. But I want to give this another try, more for myself than anything else. Life has been a mix of the highest of highs and the lowest of lows in the last two years! BUT, today I want to say I AM BACK!

The best thing has been this little person that entered our lives, keeping us fully occupied and oh so happy!

and the worst has been the tragic death of my beloved daddy. He was diagnosed with the deadliest form of brain cancer late November last year and barely two months later he went away. Our hearts have been so full. We are trying very hard to move on, but we will because that is what he would want from us and that is what we know we got to do.

Life will never be the same without him, and every day as we try to go on, it feels like a part of us is missing and there is a hole in our hearts.

diy: the ever changing picture wall

Our dining room wall had been sitting empty for a while. The actual plan for the wall is putting up art made by our loving family, including my mom and my husband’s sister’s and other collected ones. But that was taking a while to happen so on a whim I decided to do this.

Started with three rows, which quickly became four.


four rows of happy memories and moments. My husband loves them and now wants to keep this instead of our original art wall idea! Will have to convince him when I start getting bored of this!! Ha!