A moment of quiet

Last night, on my way to soccer, I got to appreciate a moment of quiet. I was able to enjoy the beautiful sunset. I enjoyed my iced coffee. I appreciated the warm evening air. I was able to take a deep breath. Sometimes, despite the craziness in my day to day, I have moments like this.... and I appreciate every second of them.

Ahhhhh......

Saving my bicycle... locally!

When I lived in Denmark, I had a great Everton retro shopping bike. Unfortunately, European brand bikes are were not well known here and, mechanically, hard to maintain. So, my lovely bike stood in our garage, making strange noises and unable to change gears properly. Boo!

The other day, I was listening to a radio call in show where the topic was cycling in Montreal. Firstly, over the past 10 years, Montreal has gone from a very bike-unfriendly city to a happening bike place. Downtown is filled with cycling culture and many Montrealers proudly cycle year-round... even in -40C and snow (this will be another blog topic sometime). Anyway, the radio show inspired me and I did some bike-repair-research. All this to say that I found Allo Vélo.... my poor bike's saviour! They not only sell Danish/Dutch style bikes.... they fix them.... at a good price.... and have coffee.... ALL AT THE SAME SHOP! ;) Heaven! The guy didn't even looked perplexed when he took a look at my bike! All he said was- cool- and told me that he would call me back when my bike was fixed! 

Love this place! Just so happy at the chance of getting my bike back that I wanted to write about it. No commercial exchange took place... just loving a cool Montreal shop!

Euro bikes AND coffee!

Cool vibe

Glad they were on my list of things to do today!

Thank you, internet shopping gods!

I have been eyeing a certain skirt on ASOS for about 3 weeks now but don't really have the money to buy it. So, while trying to be responsible and well-behaved in internet shopping land, this skirt has been calling my name....  It is now out of stock so it is also now out of mind ;) Bye-bye, temptation! ;)

Happy Thursday xox

Evil internet site ;)

What? Already?

Yesterday, I booked my first "after summer holiday" meetings at work. You mean that the holidays are done already?  Where did the holidays go? Why am I still tired? I had this LONG list of things to do this summer and most items have not been crossed out yet. I am still running around non stop to the summer activities (pool.. home... pool.... home.... pool.... home.... soccer, soccer, soccer.... swim meet... soccer.... repeat) and now I have work too? I have to wear real, non pool clothes again?AND shoes? You mean that a towel around your neck is not an appropriate fashion accessory? EEK! I am not ready yet ;)

I need to slow these last few days down.... How about 26 hours a day? ;)

Wishing you all a happy slowed-down Wednesday xox

Renovations..... done!

On Friday, the contractor came back to do some last minute touches (ok... there are STILL some last minute touches but- heck- good enough!) so the job is now more-or-less done! I know that we were VERY lucky (I know of horror renovation stories) but, still, I am super glad to have our home back and very happy with the "new" house. I kept waiting to take pictures because....who knows? Maybe my home will suddenly look like a designer show case... but.... nope. Haha! I gave up on that concept and took a few pictures anyway. It doesn't get any better than this... despite my best efforts ;) Kids were in the house already and not part of the renovation ;)

Hope you are all having a great day xox

Living room, facing west

Living room, facing east

Heard in the car today

Oliver said to me "I love pappa. Do you know why?". I answered "Because he is your father?" Oliver shakes his head and says "No. It is because he is old. My favourite Youtube guy says that we should love all old people. THAT is why I love pappa... because he is old."

For some reason, I was happy to let Andreas be the focus of his affections today ;)

Wishing you all a great day... and lots of love.... and not because you are old ;)

Feel the love ;)

Surprise mix

Over the past few years, we had an infestation of some kind of plant that just spread like wildfire in our garden. Andreas and I tried to get rid of it, over and over, and- finally- it seemed like we managed to clear it. This summer, we decided not to plant a lot of fancy flowers because we weren't sure if pain-in-the-bum-plant would come back so I threw on a pack of surprise mix wildflowers ($7.99 at Walmart). While we were in PEI, they started to bloom and I couldn't be happier! Awesome colours, no care required and butterfly-magnets.... <3 Maybe I will do this every year!

Happy Friday to you all! xox