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"a portrait of my daughter, once a week, every week in 2014"

As each day passes more of Romy's personality starts to come through, and it is very clear that she is going to be a daddy's girl. On Luke's days off work she will follow him around the house quietly whispering to herself, 'dad dad dad dad dad', and will only be settled by him in the evenings, which means I am basically their third wheel. This week Romy's top vampire teeth started to come through, so there have been a couple of long nights with extra hugs. She was so keen to use her new teeth that she started to bite the adjustable side of her cot over the weekend!

1.45pm

Tuesday, 4 February 2014, 1.45 pm

While Romy napped today I got out my craft box & some old magazines and made some cards to put in the post later in the month. I set myself a goal this month of sending out four pieces of snail mail, and I'm already halfway to accomplishing that little goal. It was a nice way to spend my rainy afternoon, I forgot how fun making magazine collages could be. 

Today We

Today we ate home made bagels for breakfast and read the Sunday paper

Romy had a Dr Seuss kind of breakfast of green eggs & ham

We filled out rental applications before we went to a viewing for a sweet little cottage

And had Grill'd afterwards on the way back to the coast

We got home a little later than expected from the house viewing with all of the afternoon traffic. Romy didn't mind though, it just bought her extra playing time when we got home to make up for the travel time spent in the car today. On Luke's days off she likes to be around him as much as possible, so if he's in the kitchen, she's in the kitchen. It was nice having a low key day altogether, hopefully we can find a new rental soon so we can get back to making plans on Luke's days off. Enjoy your week!

Pizza Sunday

Balsamic mushroom + onions with fresh cherry tomatoes & feta

This week Luke & I thought we would try something neither one of us has had before on a pizza, balsamic. For a while there one of our favourite dishes was balsamic mushrooms with grilled polenta, & while we haven't had that particular dish in a while, we do like to caramelise onions & mushrooms to have with our eggs every so often. 

 

To caramelise the onions & mushrooms, heat a pan with oil & sauté the mushrooms & onions adding sugar & balsamic vinegar

To avoid burning the feta, Luke pulled the pizza out of the oven & added it on just before it was ready 

And it was delicious! 

8.45 pm

Sunday, 2 February 2014, 8.45 pm

It was almost 9pm when Luke & I sat down to eat dinner. Romy has been teething pretty badly this week and getting her into bed of a night has been a bit of an ordeal. We went for an evening walk to try and settle her & she fell asleep three blocks from our house. Lucky we prepared everything for our dinner before we left so it took a total of two minutes to assemble. 

Put A Pin In It

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I love this little wall art cluster that is complemented by the wooden hall desk. I am keeping this idea in mind in case I have an unfilled space in my next living room or open hallway.

Pinch & A Punch

Paper bag background from here

Hello February, didn't you creep up suddenly! This year has been going nice and smoothly so far. Luke & I had quite a pleasant January with Romy, but now we're ready to get stuck into this new year. January is such an idealistic time of year with resolutions and plans, but February is when it all really starts. This month our house hunting begins! Our lease is up in March, but we have been told that our landlord doesn't mind if we break our lease, so that has given us some extra time to look for another house. I've mentioned before that we have crazy neighbours and they are one of the reasons that we are moving, and the quicker they are just a silly neighbour of the past the better! We are definitely ready for a change, and I am especially looking forward to changing things up around the house. I've been browsing Pinterest to come down from my Pretty Little Liars high after seeing the new episode, and looking at house inspiration has definitely taken the edge off looking for a new rental. 

This month I have set myself some little goals to read new blogs + catch up properly on old favourites, start a new novel, finish the illustration I am working on, send four pieces of snail mail & write a blog post everyday. I'm looking forward to how busy this month is going to be!