Happy V Day!

We lost all our snow in three warm sunny days, but woke up today to powdered grounds contrasting all the red hand made hearts inside!



Heart Garland, you can get the template from Martha Stewartʻs website.


Heart shaped cream cookies, also from Martha Stewart's Website.



Get it, Iʻm beet!!

A beautiful note pad with a "Beet" Illustration, paired with wooden handcrafted notepad holder. Also a pair of hand knit mismatched socks. They were all beautifully wrapped in a golden butterfly wrapping paper. Thank you Hubby!!

My gift was given 5 days early, my first hand knit scarf.



Peace!

The Bestest In The Barn!

Hereʻs our favorite song at the moment



Peace.

Amazing Black Bean Brownie Revisited

So hereʻs the black bean brownie photo, I had it when the girls were napping today( you can spot a wee glimpse of the little oneʻs blue rocking seat in the background, she was in it snoozing).
Btw, this is an excellent desert for gluten free, lactose intolerant, diabetic and dieting people! Well maybe not dieting, it does have two sticks of butter.. VEGAN..NO.. now youʻre really pushing your luck, It has to have something! Plus I already said it has butter, also 4 eggs..So there! Sorry vegans better luck next time!

And here is what we had tonight for dinner. (Sorry I only took prep. and cooking photos! oh well..)






A zucchini, yellow squash black bean improvised dish, with brown rice.
this dish I usually make without black beans, but I had some left over beans from the brownie recipe, so I figured, save the beans and add some proteins to the meal. A win, win really.

If anyone is interested in the vegetable dish recipe leave a comment. If not, then enjoy the photos!(even though theyʻre awful quality..took them by my phone)

Peace.

Yesterday..

I made this (crazy ingredients..I know!), today we continued eating it, and tomorrow I might post a photo of the lonely left over piece that I am dreaming of having for breakfast.

Peace:)

I found it !

In case you haven't received my email, I got back my lost item. I am very happy Alhamdulilah, thanks for all your good energy and du'a.

On a different note, if you're currently living in Chicago, try to go out today the weather is surprisingly beautiful. A sunny, warm February day.

Peace!

Today I am sad

I lost something today. It's just a material thing Alhamdulilah! I won't say what it is though, because it doesn't really matter, that's not the point(and please if you know what it is or guessed what it is from the post don't say). The point is it was my best thing I owned and now it's gone. It was a gift from two special people, it meant a lot to me because it came from them, and because it was a very thoughtful gift that made life pleasant in a material sort of way. I really loved it, and I was really afraid I would loose it, and I was being super careful and still I lost it. Which makes me feel like a complete idiot!

I don't want another one, I just want my old one. it was mine, it was personal, it even had my little girls photos in it, which also makes me really mad knowing some random stranger has my little babies photos. Why can't people do the right thing? why is it so difficult? I Know if that person took it then he probably is not in a very pleasant situation, and maybe he really needs to sell it and use the money for something far more important than what that thing meant to me. I really hope so.
But I can't help but feel upset and stupid for not being more careful.

Alhamdulilah, I have a beautiful home, family, health and a lot more to be thankful for.

But Today I am sad, even though I just received my permanent visa by mail, even though my wonderful husband came home early from school today just to cheer me up, even though he got us pizza and " My neighbor Totoro" to watch. I am sad because I feel incompetent, and not to be trusted with nice things, so please don't get me anything nice anymore I don't deserve it.

Tomorrow I'll be better again inshaAllah. Again I am so blessed, it's just a material thing.

Peace!

Disclaimer: Turn down your Volume for this post!

So I was going to write a long nice post for you. Right after my first born went to sleep,but since there is no background sound that I can display (which is something I think Google should work on in the future) Here's a little script so you can share my back ground sound effects.

Me: click...click..clickety..click..click..click

Baby: WAAA..

Me: Shhhh..Click...click..

baby: WAAAAAAAAA..

Me: Ok!

Baby: Waaa..wa..mmmmm...

Me: Shhhhh.. (whispering while holding the baby)It's okay baby go to sleep

Half an hour later after lots of walking, rocking, singing and repeat background sound: Silence!

Me: Phew..Click..click..clickety..click..more clicking..click..click..

Baby: cough..cough..

Me: Please wait a little..Click..click

Baby: Louder coughing!

Me: Three more lines if I can remember. What was I typing?!!

Baby full force: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Me: ok baby..see you tomorrow blog..maybe!

The one sound you're missing, which I had trouble adding to my mini script is, the background sound of the baby monitor.

Which goes something like this:

inhale..exhale..repeat..then every 10 minutes or so this sound..shhhhhhhhhhhhh(the sound of the heater in the first born room turning on).

Hope you're all surrounded by vibrant sounds of life and sounds of people you love!

In case you're wondering: Baby slept eventually and mommy went back straight to the keyboard..click..click (wink..wink!)

Peace.