Olive Oil

I just read in a magazine that olive oil is the best makeup remover and that it’s good for the skin. Have you tried it? I’m going to.

So last night for once I stuck to my goal of going to bed by 10pm.  There are just so many distractions like my iPhone. I’m always answering emails and texts even though some don’t respond to me as quickly as I do or never for that matter. The “never ones” piss me off with their unresponsiveness so I make a mental  note to not get back to them the next time but I can’t be that person.  I tried turning it off but I need it on for my alarm to go off in the mornings and hubby always takes my phone to play games so me turning off my phone when I get home has not been successful. Maybe I’ll accidently leave it at work. No, I can't do that. I'm just not gonna try not to not...

I annoy myself sometimes by constantly trying not to do something. I can drive myself crazy thinking about the things I shouldn’t do that I end up doing.  Mr. wonderful makes fun of me for it all the time. I don’t blame him though. After running around in crazy circles, I catch myself being my own big critic trying to improve this and not do that and this is when I hear him say "Told you." I finallythen just sit still, smile agreeing with him that everything is just fine and I should just chill and then we have a good laugh. I’m the biggest dork you’ll ever meet.

Tonight’s goal once again is trying to go to bed by 10pm and remember to try the olive oil.

Pumpkin Spice Latte

I love watching Emma waking up in the mornings. She is the cutest when she does her little stretches and slowly opens her eyes to find me staring at her beautiful face and that’s when she flashes me the biggest smile.  Today she woke up before I left for work so we got to snuggle in my bed and play together. She is so funny when she puts her face under my neck and makes these baby sounds. I just want to eat her. I fed her milk instead, changed her and put her back to sleep until the nanny came.

For once, I enjoyed driving in the rain this morning. Maybe because I thought getting the Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks would be the perfect thing to do this morning. I got my Grande Pumpkin Spice Latte in the honor of our friends’ anniversary. It’s an inside joke and I don’t need to get into it but I thought of them as well. Ok, I’m over pumpkin spice lattes. I don’t know why I kept saying this in my head:  I’m Pumpkin and your Spice (meaning my sexy husband) and together we make Pumpkin Spice Latte (that would be our daughter Emma) I can be very random. Can you tell?  

Love is like Peeling Pomegranates

After a long day at work yesterday, I got home to my amazing husband, sweet little daughter and yummy lentil soup and salad prepared by my wonderful husband. What more can a girl want? These kinds of things make me happy and are so romantic that all I want to do is kiss my husband’s face for being so good to me. He had spent the day taking care of our angel while running errands for the family and on top of that had dinner ready. 

When he went to take a nap later, I thought of all the wonderful things he did for me and wanted to return the favor so I took out the pomegranates from the fridge and started peeling them. Something I hate doing to which I would say “hal chukka” because it is so time consuming and requires a little more effort.  But yesterday I did it with love and a smile on my face knowing that when my honey wakes up he is going to be so happy to see one of his favorite snacks all peeled for him. 

Love is like Peeling Pomegranates. There are things that love costs and some things that we don’t normally like doing like peeling pomegranates but the person we love is worth so much more that we end up doing it for them with love and a smile on our faces.  That’s love.

Up All Night

A lot of people mistakenly get married hoping marriage will solve their problems. Marriage actually creates more and bigger problems. If you don’t have a strong foundation, any little wave can come crashing your house down. Before marriage, life is one exciting date after another. True love is tested when you get married making the biggest commitment of your life, living together finding all the faults of each other and yet loving waking up and going to bed with that person every day. True love is when you’re crazy in love about the person and to show it you:  make the morning coffee, take out the trash, vacuum, pay the bills, make the bed, get her flowers, buy him basketball cards, watch football with him,  and drink Armenian coffee with her even though you hate to. 

You now not only have each other’s relationship to maintain but you both have sets of friends, families, siblings, cousins, coworkers; and to maintain those relationship you’ve got to invest time.

Unfortunately things with friends and family change because now you’re a family of your own and you’ve got to make boundaries and prioritize to first nourish and maintain your relationship of a husband and wife and if you have a baby then you know your life becomes smaller but better. This is the transitional time that you might offend a lot of people especially single friends. But it’s ok, because soon enough they will write their own stories and meet you at your page.  

Our weekends are now spent playing with Emma, visiting our parents, attending family gatherings, and helping them out with things like setting up the backyard umbrella, church, laundry and grocery shopping. This might sound like a boring life to some but for me it’s the ordinary simple things that bring fulfillment and happiness at the end of the day. Even though we don’t see our friends as much as we used to and like to we are always thinking of them and trying to create opportunities to see them as we do with cousins. We no longer stay up all night clubbing, partying, or bar hoping but we stay up all night telling stories, watching movies and laughing together. 

EC