I feel like I almost forgot how this whole blogging thing goes. The past five months have been a whirlwind and I feel like I am finally getting back to a little normalcy around here. Between having a baby, completing my first cookbook, and trying to be a somewhat good wife, I haven't had much time to just be, let alone blog. I have missed this (and you) so much and cannot wait to share with you some new recipes that I am excited about right now! For now though here's a little recap of what I've been doing for the past five months!
It seems like just yesterday that I took that pregnancy test, knowing it would come back positive this time. I waited for Canean to leave for work and then immediately took the test. That day was one of the longest days of my life waiting for him to come home that afternoon. We had been trying for a while with no luck, so I wanted it to be a surprise. He came home rattling on about something with a house in Texas that we were thinking about buying at the time and I thought he would never let me get a word in! Finally I interrupted and told him I had a surprise. I made him close his eyes, and gave him a piece of paper on it where I told him in a not so obvious way that he would be dad. We both cried, were in shock, and felt incredibly grateful that God would give us this gift. Fast forward to 9 months later and we are two weeks and two days from baby boy's due date and it all seems so surreal to me.
"Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life."
Well I'm officially in my thirties and other than the fact that I like to go to bed around nine every night, I really don't feel like it. This weekend was such an amazing couple of days filled with lots of sweet friends, dance parties, cookouts, naps, cupcakes, cookies, and more! I really felt the love from everyone around me, and I couldn't feel more blessed to have such amazing people in my life.
We kicked the birthday festivities off with a 90's themed dance party that my friends Lindsey and Madeline planned for me complete with the ultimate 90's playlist, black lights, spiked punch, all of your favorite 90's junk food (pop-rocks, fruit roll-ups, bagel bites, cool ranch Doritos, and more), slap bracelets, glow sticks, and friendship bracelets.
Do you remember your first trip to Disneyworld as a kid, or maybe the first time that you saw the ocean? Remember how excited you were to live, to experience new adventures and how even the smallest new thing was always...always the best thing? And then we grew up. We started taking life and new experiences for granted and we stopped living life with the gusto of our ten year old selves.
Unless you are my husband...
He is kind of incredible in that he still has that childlike enthusiasm for life and new adventures. It's one of the qualities that I love the most about him. Canean is always up for anything, soaking up new experiences like a sponge determined to not let the world take the boy inside him away or take away pieces of the man that God created him to be...wild at heart.
My aunt sent me a book recently called Simple Abundance. It's a book that you read daily and is filled with inspiration to find joy in the life you are living right now. To find the little joys that can be hidden away in your clouded vision of what you think should be making you happy. Hello...I don't know about you, but I am guilty of this on a regular basis. Always thinking of what else I want and not focusing on the present blessings around me.
Blessings like my incredible husband, who puts up with my moods and totally and completely takes me as I am on a daily basis. He's so great about not pin pointing what I could do better in our relationship. While I on the other hand, have some room for improvement in this department.
Yep, I'm admitting it.
About two years ago we went to a little hole in the wall juke joint out in the middle of nowhere. Turns out it might be one of the coolest things about where we live. We've been meaning to go back ever since we moved back to Louisiana, and finally made the trip on Saturday night! It was a night filled with blues music, late night food, and friends. And then we topped off an amazing night and weekend by waking up late Sunday morning and eating Canean's favorite Sunday breakfast, waffles and bacon. What could be better than Saturday night juke joints and Sunday morning waffles?
Not much...I'll tell ya!
It was the perfect weekend filled with all of the things that feed my soul. Music, food, friends, and most of all, Canean.
Teddy's Juke Joint is an old house (where Teddy himself was born) converted into a little bar and stage where real blues musicians come and still play on a weekly basis. It's Louisiana as Louisiana can get and that's what I love most about it. There isn't an inch of empty ceiling or wall space because it's all filled with souvenirs, license plates from all states, mardi gras beads, and other collectibles from over the years. It's probably one of the only places where you will find all walks of life, races, and ages all brought together for one thing...good music.
