On Life and Motherhood: December 2012

The Year 2012

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Labels: acceptance , calling , family , living best life , peace

Made new friends.
Met inspiring people.
Reunited with family and friends I hold dear.
Fulfilled a dream.
Renewed and stronger love.
Accepted who I am and found peace, that the shape, color, circumstance I am in is a blessing... nothing but a blessing in which I have in me to nurture, to share, and be proud of. Just like everyone else, I am reminded that I am a child of God, that I, too, can be a gift to others, as others are to me, that though there is darkness, there is always light, flickering, shimmering, and I can hold on to that light, as I follow others and as I lead, letting my little light shine, I will be braver and courageous to live a life that is true to my own being, no longer in a shadow, but a rainbow, filled with colors of my own choosing.

Acceptance.
Peace.
Light.
Joy.
Love.

That was 2012.

Perseverance.
Positivity.
Fortitude.
Youthful Vigor.
Enthusiasm.
Abundance.

Here's to a glorious 2013!Let us welcome the new year with hope and grateful heart.

Jesse is now 4! He says he is the red angry bird.

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Labels: calling , Jesse , motherhood , son

Jesse's 4th Birthday.

It took me two weeks in preparing for this angry bird themed party. I researched on the world wide web what are the cool ideas I could possibly do in having an Angry Bird birthday party. I went to Pinterest.com. I'll be posting the links at the end of this post.

Oh the baking DRAINED me. I made his birthday cake, cookies for loot bags, cake pops and cupcakes. I made two cakes: chocolate cake and that fancy strawberries and cream sponge cake (those kind that the royalties in England have at their tea parties). This was after all, an "Angry Bird Tea Party". Shout out to my cousin Edda for helping me out. This woman creates the eye candies of cake I just want to look at her cakes and not eat them (well the fact that she is in England and I am here in Yellowknife---that really is the hard part). The party hats were hand made by my ever genius of a husband Steve Efondo. Ok, I'd go for "talented". But he is. Genius.

Those angry birds cake toppers, that was brutal. And let me tell you, I've never created fondant figures before. This was my first time. I'd say not bad, I was pretty happy with the result being a rookie and all, but boy, that was brutal. Brutal.

But hey, look at my boy's smile. Priceless. Now that makes everything else irrelevant.