i’m so in love with domestic sweetness.
cooking dinner with the one you love while they wrap their arms around you. taking quick kiss breaks in between folding fresh laundry. washing each other’s hair in the shower. giggling and rolling around in the fresh sheets you both just finished putting on. dusting while showing off your latest dance moves and having your sweetheart show off their vocals.
it’s so comforting to have someone that you just enjoy making a home with. because chores done with someone you love isn’t such a chore after all.
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hi hi! i recorded a lil video about my skincare while we were in hawaii and tumblr wouldn’t upload it from mobile so here it is!
a few links for ya:
- acne.org benzoyl peroxide
- ursa major - this is a $10 off referral code :)
- kiehls creamy eye treatment with avocado
- follain raw elements moisturizer
i hope this is helpful! i love skincare and have always found it very interesting & fun to talk about :)
Tuesday đź’«
- last night after work i made a big baking sheet of roasted butternut squash squiggles (trader joe’s cause i was feeling lazy), curry potatoes, and onions and then chopped up some sugar snap peas and spring onions. combined with sprouted quinoa + baby kale + curly kale and made 4 salads so i’m set for lunch til Thursday. sooo good! i do these allll the time but this was a new combo and went a lot further because dylan is away at a conference in San Diego til Thursday :)
- dylan gave me this reusable cutlery set in my stocking and i love it! trying to keep it with me all the time.
- i’ve been rehabbing a sudden, mysterious knee injury which means lots of paddling and surfing and stretching and yoga and patience and kindness with myself because i am not good at not pushing hard. but i need a lifetime of long runs from these knees so i’m backing off hard from marathon training and staying optimistic and remembering that nothing good gets away :) and i signed up for a month unlimited at my yoga studio (just like this time last year!) & am feeling so good.
- i recorded a skincare video in Hawaii that tumblr refused to upload & finally got around to uploading it to YouTube tonight so i’ll post that right after this!
- haaaaappy tuesday 🌿
feeling the post-Hawai’i blues a little bit today but looking at these happy moments makes me feel better (+ counting the days already til our next trip this year)
in 2018 the word i meditated on was “enjoy”. i carried it with me into my yoga practice, on my early runs, on my evenings home from work, on my lunch breaks with pals. i carried it with me as i prepared for my wedding, as i soaked up that season in every tiny moment - enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.
this year my word is “glow”. to me it means continuing to do things that feed my soul and my joy from the inside out, to take it in and radiate it back out to those around me. to use food and activities to help myself glow and be the best version of myself.
some of my goals for 2019:
- more water
- reducing my plastic waste
- being even more stringent on what companies i purchase from
- more dinner dates with friends, both cooking together & going out to eat
- taking the big changes coming this year day by day and not worrying about things unnecessarily before they’ve arrived
- using our vitamix and instant pot more! we get in a routine with cooking and we have those two great tools so i want to explore using them more and making new recipes. i also want to make more smoothies/juices and drink more matcha :)
- taking more trips home to Canada so we can spend time with my family
- remembering to keep up with posting my photos here so i can look back on all the little moments i want to remember in 2019
i have a few other personal/financial/career goals that i’m excited to tackle this year as well :) anyone meditating on a word for 2019? i really liked doing it last year!
2018 was the best year of my life and i’m grateful for every little moment of it - joys and sorrows and everything in between.
‘somedays’ keep turning into ‘soons’ and ‘nows’ and i am so excited for all the adventures we have up our sleeves for 2019 💫
sending love out into the universe to all the parts of your stories & hoping the new year brings everything you hope for! keep shining brightly ⭐️
this morning, with him, having coffee. đź’«
what you said was very sweet and means a lot to me but i am incapable of properly responding in any way besides “thank you so much aaaah” because i do not know how to accurately express the exact level of my gratitude to where you completely understand how much what you said meant to me without me getting even more emotional and looking like a fucking nerd: an autobiography
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i’m going to marry the man who lights up my life
i never knew my heart could leap with joy so much for the news of someone i haven’t met (yet) but my god it just did and i feel giddy and i am just so beyond insanely happy for you both rachael
i can’t thank you all enough for the beautiful words like this that i got to read on this post. they gave me chills and made me tear up and i am so grateful for this incredibly supportive community on this crazy website. thank you for rooting for us, we are rooting for you too. i send it all back to you: love into the universe 💕✨💕
two years minus six days since one of my favourite, magic days :) i remember exactly how i felt in these photos and it’s somehow even sweeter looking at them now, seeing everything in between there and here. they have truly felt like the two greatest years for us. i feel lucky and excited for all the adventures that are coming into focus for us.
monday cozies & being kind to myself today looked like this:
- temporarily avoiding paperwork and instead popping into the classroom of a student i adore after his teacher told me he was asking for me only to have him throw his lil arms around me and ask to read a book (my HEART.)
- (also we read Mother Bruce and that is hands down my favourite childrens book, as someone who essentially reads childrens books professionally that is a high honor)
- talking to kind, kind friends who don’t mind repeating themselves to say the things i needed to hear and make me feel loved, seen, known.
- getting off work 90 minutes early and using the extra time to go out for a fast, exhilarating run as the sun went down
- taking a moment on the balcony post-run to soak up that beaut of a colourful sunset and feel breathless and content and chilly and alive
- throwing a big bag of brussels sprouts in the oven to roast and making a pot of quinoa to have in our lunch salads the rest of the week
- saaavoring my post-run shower (my facewash smells heavenly & my bodywash from follain is lemongrass, so fresh)
- putting on a face mask, making candy cane tea, and watching the marvelous mrs. maizel with dylan
- my day started with forgetting my lunch, running back home to get it, waiting nine minutes for our only functioning elevator only to step in it and see that the kids i heard getting off had pressed every single button and i was so late and frustrated i almost cried but instead decided to not write monday off too early and i am really glad i didn’t.
“If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. Because in relationship with others … the other is nothing but a mirror.”— Osho
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Yo just a heads up, when you start loving yourself loudly and setting healthy boundaries, you’re gonna piss off any toxic people around you.
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having absolutely no fun at all this weekend
(alternate title: three engineers & a speech pathologist attempt to construct a gingerbread mansion, fail, and revert to original blueprint)
i just realized that i’ve been sitting on the train with an incandescent grin reading the chapter where michelle first meets barack obama and holy moly if you haven’t got her book on your list please add it
good mornin good mornin, i haven’t posted an outfit in awhile and this is a standard tuesday ensemble for me because i have afternoon bus duty (aka 80 minutes outside at the end of the day) so i make sure to dress extra warm. corduroy pants are clutch (way warmer than jeans!)+ flannel is always cozy. we had an early little christmas with my parents and my mom picked out these boots for me - i had a simple black pair all chosen and she was like no rach you gotta try these. they’re so fun and i love em! i have a really fun activity planned with my students for my group therapy sessions today using static electricity so i’m hoping it goes well. happy tuesday!