I don't like movies that have a love triangle story. I didn't like Something Borrowed. But In most cases Love always wins. If it's between friendship and love, it's evident the person will usually go with love. I didn't like the fact that a lot of cheating was involved. Do these things really happen in real life? It scares me to know that they do actually.
I remember my mom telling me about one of her college friends ended up with her best friend's finace and another story just like that when we moved her from Armenia, happened to one of her best friend's son. His girlfriend's best friend knew all about him because of all the stories she shared with her friend and so she knew the way to his heart which she eventually ending up winning.
One can look at it as it was meant to be and another can say it was betrayel.
What do you think?
December 26, 2011
December 14, 2011
Happy Birthday to My Hubby!
I am the luckiest girl to be married to the sexiest, smartest and funniest man alive!
He has gone from this crazy, fun, funny wild guy, to a crazy fun, funny wild husband and an amazing daddy. I am so proud of him for everything he is and everything he has accomplished since I met him. Wishing you the stars and the moon babe!
I love you!
He has gone from this crazy, fun, funny wild guy, to a crazy fun, funny wild husband and an amazing daddy. I am so proud of him for everything he is and everything he has accomplished since I met him. Wishing you the stars and the moon babe!
I love you!
December 13, 2011
Oh My Mother
The transition to becoming a mother has taken some time for me to adjust. I have gotten the hang of things: joggling, full time work, home, baby and being happily married. But, sometimes I feel the pressure that I'm not doing what I should be doing or I could be doing more. I often think that there must be something wrong with me that drinking coffee and eating chocolate takes away my time from praying and reading the Bible. I also tend to look at others in an elavated way and want to be more like them because from the outside everyone has it so together while at home I'm running around with my big crazy hair and sometimes go to bed with my make up on because I'm just too tired to wash my face
Today, I read the perfect article that I wanted to share a part from.
I love you all my mother friends, do you feel me?
EC
Today, I read the perfect article that I wanted to share a part from.
Miller-McLemore quotes medievalist scholar Elizabeth Dreyer. Parenting, Dreyer says, “is the ‘ascetic opportunity’ par excellence….A full night’s sleep, time to oneself, the freedom to come and go as one pleases – all this must be given up.” The sacrifice of parenting is a no-brainer, but I have to admit: it leaves me feeling a little defeated. This whiney, poopy, chaotic quotidian life is the field in which our spirituality grows and matures? There’s not some glorious mountaintop waiting for me?
It’s still a little shocking, but perhaps the most spiritual thing I can do may be to embrace my life as a mother. Not a spiritual, metaphorical mother, but a snot-wiping, baby-chasing, diaper bag-toting mother. Because sometimes it’s not the bible stories or the lectio divina, but the Help! and thank you that a relationship is built on.
I love you all my mother friends, do you feel me?
EC
December 12, 2011
Make Up
I've either been too lazy to wear make up or I've lost my desire to wear a lot of it as I get older. Recently, I've noticed that I feel so much better with less make up on than I do with a lot. I don't know maybe it's a part of becoming a mom. Whatever it is, I'm fine with it. I don't like washing off mascara anyway and even though in my earlier posts I mentioned Olive oil is a great make up remover, I really don't feel like washing my face at nights. I still like getting dolled up for special occasions and that's probably what I'm going to use my make up for...special occasions.
EC
EC
November 30, 2011
Hurry Up and Wait
"I had dinner last week with a friend who’s lost twenty pounds and kept it off, and he was telling me about what has helped him change. He read an author who helped him understand what’s good for you and what tastes really good but can hurt you in excess. (In the latter category, sadly, is pretty much any food that ends in ‘o’: nacho, burrito, frito, dorito, taco, mayo, potato, oreo…) But this is the comment that stuck with me: the best diet in the world doesn’t help if you won’t eat it." -John Ortberg
It has to be something you can like. It has to be something you’ll actually eat.
December is just around the corner and my post pregnancy goal of dropping to my original pre pregnancy weight ain't happening by the end of December. Normally the fact would drive me off the wall but I've decide to finally come to terms with reality. I have lost most of my weight and no one is bothering me about it except myself. I tend to be too hard on myself sometimes.
I'm such an all or nothing person that I want things to be done right away or else I don't even want to bother or I get disappointed too quickly when I don't see results immediately. This whole experience has been teaching me to sympathize with anyone who is trying their best to lose weight but still struggling. I never really knew how hard it actually is to lose a pound than to gain it. It's also taught me patience, way more than I prayed for. Nine months of pregnancy and now post pregnancy weight loss has taught me one thing "Hurry up and wait."
I realized I was measuring myself with how much I weighed. If I was skinny then I was happy if I wasn't skinny then I was unhappy. The numbers on the scale became my mood thermometer with weight my idol. I finally decided to turn it over to God and have Him worry about it since He is Up all night anyway. Since, I have stopped putting my trust in dieting, worrying about losing weight, put my scale aside and have started eating healthy, I have become much happier and content with where I am right now and working on where I'd like to be some day is my motivation to eating right and staying active. I trust God to sustain me and see me through. Sounds silly, but He cares about the little ordinary things~ I just know it. Why else should we say grace before dinner, other than to thank God for the food and also to control our mouths so we don't stuff ourselves.
You don't need will power, all you need is change of habits.
xoxo
El
It has to be something you can like. It has to be something you’ll actually eat.
December is just around the corner and my post pregnancy goal of dropping to my original pre pregnancy weight ain't happening by the end of December. Normally the fact would drive me off the wall but I've decide to finally come to terms with reality. I have lost most of my weight and no one is bothering me about it except myself. I tend to be too hard on myself sometimes.
I'm such an all or nothing person that I want things to be done right away or else I don't even want to bother or I get disappointed too quickly when I don't see results immediately. This whole experience has been teaching me to sympathize with anyone who is trying their best to lose weight but still struggling. I never really knew how hard it actually is to lose a pound than to gain it. It's also taught me patience, way more than I prayed for. Nine months of pregnancy and now post pregnancy weight loss has taught me one thing "Hurry up and wait."
I realized I was measuring myself with how much I weighed. If I was skinny then I was happy if I wasn't skinny then I was unhappy. The numbers on the scale became my mood thermometer with weight my idol. I finally decided to turn it over to God and have Him worry about it since He is Up all night anyway. Since, I have stopped putting my trust in dieting, worrying about losing weight, put my scale aside and have started eating healthy, I have become much happier and content with where I am right now and working on where I'd like to be some day is my motivation to eating right and staying active. I trust God to sustain me and see me through. Sounds silly, but He cares about the little ordinary things~ I just know it. Why else should we say grace before dinner, other than to thank God for the food and also to control our mouths so we don't stuff ourselves.
You don't need will power, all you need is change of habits.
" Where this is no vision but lots of methods, there is legalism.
Where there is vision but no understanding of method, there is frustration.
Where there is neither vision nor method, there is apathy.
But where the vision is strong,
and method is actually effective and workable,
then transformation can happen."
Where there is vision but no understanding of method, there is frustration.
Where there is neither vision nor method, there is apathy.
But where the vision is strong,
and method is actually effective and workable,
then transformation can happen."
-John Ortberg
xoxo
El
November 28, 2011
The Me That I Want To Be
You're not supposed to fit in. You're not supposed to be like everyone else. God made you the way you are to stand out and make a difference.
"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Ps 139:14a.
El
"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Ps 139:14a.
El
November 23, 2011
How To Reuse an Empty Tissue Box
I thought this was a clever idea.
Use it as a garbage can in your car. Garbage always seems to show up in the car when you don’t have something to put it in or somewhere to throw it out. Take a square tissue box, put a plastic bag in it and throw your garbage in as you accumulate it.
My other favorite was just to store plastic bags instead of storing it in the dishwasher like some Armenian moms do
Use it as a garbage can in your car. Garbage always seems to show up in the car when you don’t have something to put it in or somewhere to throw it out. Take a square tissue box, put a plastic bag in it and throw your garbage in as you accumulate it.
My other favorite was just to store plastic bags instead of storing it in the dishwasher like some Armenian moms do
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