City Gardeners!

After two long years of waiting, which was probably God saying "you just had a baby Stephanie Sabbe, you do not have time for a garden", we Sabbes were finally issued our own little plot of land in the Fenway Victory Gardens! This is what it looked like a week and a half ago when we first got it (think Secret Garden)

It was a larger plot that was recently divided into two. We got the side with no entry gate. So we tackled phase one this weekend which was to build a gate and a dividing fence.

You can take the boy out of the country suburbs....

What we have learned so far is, building a straight fence is hard work.  I'm sure there will be many, many more lessons along the way. Here are some ideas I have pinned for planting...

 And some more for entertaining...

 But what excites me the most, more than flowers or veggies or my own garden party, is my plan to have Mr. Sabbe build Remi his own little playhouse.

The best part is, we are right on the path that everyone takes to walk home from work. We have already had 5 or 6 friends stop by, coincidentally, and say hi.  Remi is on cloud nine with all the attention he is getting from strangers (which he prefers over attention from his mama or daddy). Boston is the smallest "big city" in the world, but by the end of the summer it's probably going to feel like Mayberry.

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Happy Easter Y'all!

I will rejoice and be glad in it!

We are headed to NYC in the morning. We rented a little apartment on the lower east side for the week. I can't wait to celebrate Sunday with Redeemer Church, eat Greek food with good friends in Queens, take Remi to the Central Park Zoo, have a picnic under the Brooklyn Bridge, see Memphis, go on a champagne cruise with my favorite man, and just soak up all of the amazingness that is New York City. See you next week!

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Heaven Blew Every Trumpet and Played Every Horn

On the wonderful, marvelous night you were born

Happy Birthday Sweet Boy! We love you to the moon and back.

{photos from his party this past Sunday}

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Remi's {first} Room

I have yet to really decorate Remi's room in our most recent apartment, but this morning I came across some photos of his room in our last apartment, his very first bedroom. Sweet, closetless, windowless, airconditioningless memories. I will always love this little hole in the wall of a nursery.

 Remember when Mr. Sabbe set up the crib. Where does the time go?

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A Merry Christmas Bloopers Reel

We randomly watched an old America's Funniest Home Videos Christmas Special this week. Mr. Sabbe and I both grew up watching that show and 20 years later, it's still funny. We got the rest of our holiday photos in this week and I thought about sharing more of my favorites. Then we scrolled through and looked at some of the outtakes, and they are hilarious, at least to us. So in the spirit of America's Funniest Home Videos and getting a good laugh out of someone else's awkward moments...I present The Sabbe Family 2011 Christmas Photo Bloopers, narrated by yours truly.

Mr. Sabbe getting his camera face confused with his "make baby laugh" face. 

Not sure how I thought putting Remi's foot in my mouth, as he dangled upside down, would be a classic Christmas card pic.

Another "it seemed cute in our heads" shot. If you knew my husband, you would see how very nervous he is with this whole kissing the wife with baby on the shoulders situation.

There were a lot of these...

"look at the camera Remi"

"look at the camera Remi", now using my discipline face, still no results

Mr. Sabbe's turn..."look at the camera buddy" while I'm wondering how many people are judging me for putting my kid on the ground in Fenway.

This one is just a hilarious because it's the beginning of a stint where Mr. Sabbe's hair goes a little wild on the right side...and it's confusing as to whether we are holding Remi or about to tackle him to the ground. I personally think my artistic touch of looking off into space really ties it all together.

He finally started to fight back.

And to wrap it all up...

We still can't believe this one didn't make the final cut:) You can almost hear the urrrrr sound coming out of my sweet husband's mouth as Remi thinks... are these two for real??

Wishing everyone a very happy holiday season! See you next year!

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Take Me Out to the Ball Game

I have been a bad blogger lately. I know. On top of two new projects, I have been focusing a lot of my energy on getting my little guy on a schedule, and then spending most of the weekends messing it up. There is just so much fun stuff to do in New England in the summer! Last weekend we took him to his first Soxs game. We live literally next door to the stadium so we were able to make this little adventure happen between nap times. Due to the approaching hurricane, it was a pretty overcast day. But we got second row seats, so we were not complaining.

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Figuring It All Out

Joanna Goddard is doing a series on working mamas, in creative fields, that I think is just great. Since picking back up on a few design projects over the past couple of weeks, a great deal of my energy has been spent on trying to figure out our new routine. I am no where close to having it down. I was telling a friend earlier this week, it's hard when you love what you do for a living. I always thought I would want to be a 100% stay at home mom when the opportunity came along. But now that I'm there, I realize, in some capacity, I want both. I read Tina Fey's Bossypants (hilarious!) a couple of months ago and loved what she had to say on the topic. My first goal has been be to establish days where I work and days that I do not. And the days that I do not, I am screening calls, avoiding emails, and spending all my energy watching my little nugget grow. Because he is growing so, so fast....

11 weeks...on vacation

daddy forgot my lion

I will say, I have some pretty awesome clients. Remi has been on more job sites and through more showrooms in his 14 weeks of life than most intern interior designers. I also understand that I am very blessed to have the option of doing the part time thing. 

It's been the best 14, almost 15 weeks of my life!

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