April 23, 2010

My baby was born on a Spring day. The very earth a celebration of her. The April sun shines longer for her. He hurries to rise, making preparations and lighting her day before she rises. Blooming into the open morning, he kisses her eyelashes, her nose, and spreads warm over her day. Then lingers into the evening, carefully putting away, ray by ray, her cherished light.

The ground swells for her. Thick, sweet stalks of newly greened grass rise up for her. Flowers in every shade of her favorite color bend toward her, competing for her smile. Heavy tulips and gentle daisies dreamily dance to the song of her laughter. And just above and from all around young birds flutter and coo. Warble and whistle. Streaks of red wings in the sky while clouds drift by like creamy white balloons.

And I marvel, once again, that this is all for her.

My baby was born on a Spring day.


XOXO

The Invitations

How in the world is it already almost February? I feel like I just started planning our wedding, and here we are, less than two months away. I still have so much left to do, but things are starting to come together. I have so much I want to share here, and a few sneak peeks before the big day. For starters, the invitations! I wanted to wait until we got them all sent off before posting anything here. Hopefully they've all found their recipients by now.

I am so in love with how they turned out. We ordered from a company I found on Etsy called Shi Chi Jiro, who also made our matching save the date cards. I cannot recommend this small business enough. One of the things I've tried to do while wedding planning is buy as much as possible from small companies. The artist who hand designed our invitations did a beautiful job and worked with us to customize the colors to match our wedding. The  printing is exquisite and the paper is thick and high quality. Plus, the pricing was very affordable.

We also ordered a handmade stamp from sweet paperie with our address on it to make that part of the process a little bit easier. I love the extra touch it gave the envelopes.

Only 43 days to go!

XOXO

Sicky Sunday

Hannah woke up this morning and wasn't quite herself. She spent the morning cuddling with her daddy on the couch and around mid morning she finally drank some water and threw it all up. But we've since tossed all the cushions off the couch and put on our comfiest pajamas. Hannah's got her favorite blankets and stuffed friends to keep her company, and we're watching Tinker Bell movies and eating ice chips. She just got off the couch to sit in her toy box, so I'm hoping it's just a little bug that's already working it's way out of her system.

As for me, I've been quite busy with wedding planning this week. I think I'm going to put together a little update post for later this week to share some of the latest bits and pieces with you all. We're in the home stretch now...less than two months!

Happy Sunday!

XOXO