that day we got married

it's such a deep, deep chasm our love.

i tripped on something and fell down it and you caught me and i've been looking at you like this ever since.

(that means you)

i did a funny job on this handkerchief. the writing doesn't look how it did in the embroidery instructions.

it looks like me though.

i made it one night in the bedroom when you were playing video games and i told you not to come in because i was working on something top secret. sometimes i say that when i'm brushing my teeth but this time i meant it.

that moment we found on our wedding day when i could give this to you was nice because it was just a moment in between some other moments and that's where we always seem to find ourselves. extraordinary in the ordinary.

last week by chance you got on my subway car on the way home and we hugged for that long time and you said it felt like we'd won the lottery and been given 15 minutes and i loved that you said that and i hugged you harder and your neck was warm.

i hope the letters stay on and it doesn't catch and pull and i hope in 50 years it's still legible.

if it isn't i'll read it from memory. if it isn't i'll make it a song.

x

madeleines for madelyn

robynn's going to have a baby soon and her name will be madelyn and jeremy made these madeleines and we ate them saturday with tea.

robynn's baby probably won't be allowed to drink tea until later on in life but i can be the one who tells her what she's got to look forward to.

make me a cake as fast as you can

i have a lot of talented chefs in my life, jeremy being numero uno and mel from work being my office backup.

i wanted a chocolate cake recipe and as jer's sweet tooth is more of a salt fang i asked mel and mel delivered!

i made it for my father in laws birthday because the way to phillip's heart is through a combination of love, butter and sugar.

YUM IT WAS TASTY! and two layered. with icing.

i shaved dark chocolate on top which flew all over the ground when phillip made his wish and now the carpet is extra delicious.

family tree

the other day i went to vanesa's house and we had cheese and wine and baguette and she put a candle on and it was like we were in paris!

she has an old family picture like this old family picture only hers is of her own relatives in fuzzy hats and coats.

these are the grandparents of my grandma on my dad's side which means they were around long before me which means they probably lived a life half full. they look like a good time though eh? especially great great grandma jane. i bet she had all the best knock knock jokes.

i'm number one!

jeremy says so, he even gave me this award.

we're not lost, we're meandering.

true fact cemeteries are a nice place to spend an afternoon. they're so giant and sprawling and quiet and mysterious and comforting and full of this really tangible feeling of calm.

sometimes when me and jeremy have decided to spend saturday in the cemetery making grave rubbings and taking cool pictures i think to myself , man, are we ever lucky we found each other.

i'm so stoked for our lifetime of weird hobbies. xox

and my favourite tree in the wide world is in a cemetery. jeremy made a willow wreath from its branches which made me love the tree more because you could make arts and crafts with its parts.

magical.

it's GIANT. like so big it feels a bit like a dinosaur if that makes any sense. are trees and dinosaurs linked? have i made a scientific discovery just now? if this tree was a dinosaur it would be a brontosaurus. which were my favourite dinosaurs second to the diplodocus.

and then we went home and brewed up these crab apples and played with our ouija board.

oh just joshing you! the ouija's in the shop we played scrabble.

when life hands you crab apples, make crab apple jelly

sometimes you step on a crab apple and almost break your ankle so you pick it up and consider its worth and put it in your canadian tire bag and take it home with some of its brothers and sisters and boil them with equal parts sugar and water and what do you know! you've made crab apple jelly!

i love that we just picked these up off the ground for free and now we have something to go nicely with our cheese and crackers.

nature freebies are the best, you don't even have to remember your coupon.

my awesome 'we are the world' screen captures

this is going to take off into a coffee book deal/travelling art exhibit. just you wait and see.

oh yeah, i love this one

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (all for you).

oh, deer

one of the two times we left the cottage on our honeymoon was to try and find the mont tremblant national park, a task we sadly failed at. however we did have the nicest fall drive up these winding scenic roads so i think one point for that whole 'it's the journey not the destination' theory.

and we saw this guy. just hanging out at the side of the road.

i was like 'sweetie pull over now' real stealth like and jeremy did it without even asking why and i opened the car door and walked towards it and it didn't run and it stayed long enough for me to take it's picture and then it did that funny deer bouncing business back off into the woods. it was like an awesome nature bonding moment.

me and nature are sometimes tight like that.

sorry, we've just been really busy watching our new mobile.

did everyone know about these? i don't think so because if they did everyone would have one and i don't really think anyone buys mobiles except for babies.

they're SO neat. and calming. and like amazing to know that in a quiet room there is still so much movement in the air.

also this cool family makes them.

who needs cable!? i'm starting a saying 'down with tv up with mobiles'. i just have to work on making it a bit more catchy.

x

and here's jeremy

jeremy's scary scarecrow costume was soo-oo good. and i'm not just saying that because i love him soo-oo much.

he kept using my head as a model while putting it together and that was my favourite part because i got to participate.

we got into our costumes in separate rooms and came out at the same time to surprise slash scare each other. then we sat on the couch in our halloween outfits, watched a scary movie and ate the last of the giant toblerone bar.

the scarecrow was always my favourite character from the wizard of oz. i liked his wobbly knees and sincere outlook on life.

here's me on halloween

and this is my new friend buzz. cool costume eh? very realistic. i liked his karate chop button.