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Home Is Where All The Children’s Stuff Is

September 24, 2012 By Alison 119 Comments

I wander through my house, camera in hand, eager to see what joys the Nikon can bring me.

I start here, where I am a lot. My favorite spot on the couch.

I walk to the bedroom, turn around and see this.

The view of our walk-in closet. I love that I can finally have all my clothes in one place. Oh, the simple things.

I walk down the hallway to the toddler’s room.

I’ve always loved this blue feature wall.

I look up and see this.

And it makes me smile, remembering when we chose this light online, and thinking, how cool is it, for a little boy to look up from his bed and see a rocket?

I head back to the living room.

We are prime examples of people whose houses look like a rainbow exploded all over it.

Where we draw, count and play with the iPad.

I put stickers on the toddler’s stool as a fun way to teach him to identify animals and objects. (And yes, to try and mask the crayons scrawls all over it)

I also try to encourage the use of Play-Doh the table. To no avail. See how foamy floor mats are awesome?

We play with this as a family. Even the baby loves watching the cars fly down the ramps.

The toddler has always loved the color green. And so it is the green car that is his favorite.

I end my little home tour, sit down, look to my right and see this.

My firstborn when he was around the same age my second is right now.

Happiness.

Home is where all the children’s stuff is.

Home is where my hearts are.

Right here.

Linking up with The Good Life.

What’s the favorite part of your home?

In other news, today my post I Don’t Sleep is featured over at Bonbon Break! It’s a totally awesome online magazine for women. Check it out, okay?

Courtney of Courtney Kirkland blog is compiling a list of the real top 100 bloggers. Who do you think are fabulous and whose writing deserves a larger audience? Let Courtney know by emailing her! More details on The Real 100 here!

Filed Under: Home, Kids, Life, List of 10, Photography Tagged With: Practicing my photography

Random Things You Probably Didn’t Want To Know But I’m Going To Tell You Anyway

July 2, 2012 By Alison

Listicle time with Stasha and she’s asked 10 random questions. Since Stasha is a photographer and plays a photo scavenger hunt every Sunday, I thought it’d be fun to do this with pictures (also, more interesting).

1. Grab the nearest book to you, turn to page 23 and find line 4. What is it?

This is a book my husband was reading, “Marching With the Devil”

2. How many times a day do you say Hi?

I say ‘Hi’ a lot – that’s how I greet my boys!

3. Have you ever worn a uniform?

My class picture when I was 15. No, I’m not telling you where I am in here. Yes, we wear school uniforms in Malaysia. And yes, those are PINAFORES.

4. What do you think about the most?

The boys! I think about their future, how I parent them, how cute they are……

5. How many keys are on your keyring?

Just four!

6. What was the last thing you bought?

It’s not enough that half of my house looks like an IKEA showroom. Now they’ve sucked me in with their chocolate!

7. Are you growing anything these days?

My hair. Though this may be due to the fact that I don’t have time to go to a hairdresser.

8. What is under your bed?

I don’t know and I’m not sure I want to know.

9. What is most important in life?

Love. Not teddy bears. Love.

10. What is the strangest word you used this week?

Before social media, I’m pretty sure ‘unfriend’ didn’t exist.

Random question: What was the last thing you ate?

Filed Under: List of 10, Random

Remember When….

June 25, 2012 By Alison

Dear Husband,

Remember when…

We had lunch at this amazing fish and chip place in Noosa, Queensland, Australia in 2005? (our first vacation together to Australia!)

We declared these pancakes the best in the world, and Coco’s in Perth became our go-to breakfast place whenever we went back to Australia? (and ohmygoodness, the scrambled eggs with truffle oil was also divine!)

We loved these two? (I wonder how they are now in their new home)

We finally signed on the dotted line, 4 years after we met? (and how I love my cheongsam!)

You insisted I take a picture with our rented convertible on our honeymoon in Margaret River (Australia), even though it was FREEZING? (and how you also insisted on driving with the top down days later and I got sunburned?)

You told me I COULD cross this scary river when we went hiking? (was it also the same day my shoe got stuck in the mud and you thought it was the funniest thing ever?)

We fell in love with this boy on December 29, 2009?

We sat him down on the grass and he immediately lit up on our first family vacation in New Zealand?

We fell in love with our second boy on May 8, 2012? (what’s with our children and their tongues?)

We said one day we’ll be a family ? And now here we are, a family.

Thank you, Husband, for creating these moments with me.

Thank you, Kim of The G Is Silent for this Listicle inspiration – to honor a man in our lives with 10 happy memories. My husband and I have known each other for nearly 9 years, so we have MANY memories and moments, so it was hard to pick just 10. So I went with the ones for which we had pictures.

What’s your best memory with the man in your life?

Filed Under: Husband, List of 10