things I like

It has been a cold winter, very cold and very long (and it's still January). The coldest winter this venezuelan girl has experienced in her entire life. We are so ready for a change of season, so ready to start feeling the warm sun outside and to see nature change around here. For the past 10 years of my life I have lived in cold, snowy places, but this year for sure, winter has been especially tough on me, my mood and my body. Spring I'm waiting, I'm so waiting. Arboretum, Madison-WI

I cannot really see how similar my son and I look, if we even look alike. But after I posted this photo on Facebook the other day a few people mentioned that D. and I look so so similar here, and I think I agree with them. I just adore the idea of looking like him. Through my eyes there's not any other face in the universe more beautiful than this little boy's face. Of course I'm the mother.

This amazing, modern house used to be a train depot. Take a look @ what Gray Organschi Architecture did with this 19th Century depot in rural Connecticut. source: //freshome.com/2014/01/18/train-depot-rural-connecticut-transformed-welcoming-modern-home/

I am planning on bringing to the blog a series of short interviews (very short) about how my favorite ladies, the ladies in my life, experience motherhood on a daily basis. These are family members, friends, coworkers, women around me that I love and admire. This is about them being mothers, it is a little celebration of their day in-day out efforts to raise awesome human beings. It is what connects me to them, it is what I can see in their eyes every time we talk about our kids, my and theirs. It is about that huge love I notice in their smiles every single time they pronounce their kiddos names. This is about motherhood, that big, wonderful and sometimes scary word. In my efforts to describe what motherhood is to me I really need to say that I haven't been able to come across with a phrase, a single sentence, a word that covers exactly everything I feel and experience as a mother. In the end I think I have to understand that it is -at least to me- impossible to describe it,

today, I got to do one of my favorite things in life and something that i can't do very often. i just walked. i walked alone, only me and my thoughts. for more than an hour. i just walked around one of my favorite streets in the city. i grabbed a coffee and kept walking. i bought myself a little necklace, not fancy at all, and walked some more. i window-shopped. sipped my delicious double extra hot latte. shot a picture. and kept walking down the street. here's a proof of today's walk.

The very first thing I do in the morning, even before heading to the kitchen to make coffee is to open every single window I run into on my way downstairs. I'm the opposite of a vampire. I need light. Bright light makes me happier, more balanced. That's why I love windows, they can really transform and bring life into a space.  These are a few I just found. Look how beautiful and dramatic these rooms look, just because of their windows and the light they receive. images source: japanesetrash.com