I am lucky today because it is a gloomy morning.

The perfect time to stay snuggled up in bed until, of course, soccer later today.

But with that being said, my husband is home so I should motivate and go workout!

I am drinking a cup or two of coffee to help with that.

Over the past week I found this depiction on Pinterest.

I keep referring back to it my mind.

I am trying to keep on track like all of us with watching what I am eating.

Not only for the weight gain but because overall I feel better.

I know some of us Mommies

(okay well me)

have a problem with sampling what we made for the kids as well as our own food.

So this week I am trying to keep in mind to put down that spoonful of mac and cheese

and to remember what I put in my mouth throughout the day.

Now to motivate…..yoga here I come.

We have been in our house for almost two years.

Not long by any means, but from the moment we moved into our bank owned home,

I knew the light fixture in the kitchen had to go.

After move in costs, water damage in the summer that year,

a light fixture became the last on the to do or need list.

This past September my husband and I celebrated our 9th anniversary.

Like most anniversary’s my husband says “lets go away Nicole”, but for us that is nearly impossible.

I am very traditional in many ways

and I do look up each year the meaning of what the annual anniversary  is.

The 9th year is pottery and a willow tree.

Wow!

Just my luck….the light fixture I love at “Pottery Barn” is considered pottery right?

So here is my 9th anniversary love.

It glows in the morning and the evening, and I have loved every crystal on it.

I will post later about the willow, it lost in a battle with my husband but we did purchase 4 trees…..