Tulip Tip

I love fresh flowers and try to have some around the house as often as possible. This time of year it mainly is tulips that cheerfully dress up my home. One thing that is crucial for me with just tulips (and often many other flowers too) is to try to extend their life of beauty by re organising them after a few days. Tulips grow alot once they are put inside in the warmth, sometimes by 2inches even, they bend and the curve of the stem changes dramatically. If they are not taken care of, cut down slightly or re-arranged you run the risk of them getting damaged and the beautiful arrangement may not look so beautiful anymore. Here are some photos of what I did with my beautiful tulips... I recommend this to everyone who loves tulips!
//Nina

Final...

How much I cut off..

Final...

What they looked like when only 1 day old...

Luxury Day!

 Frozen Blueberries for dessert tonight

 Fresh tulips is a must this time of year

It's very rare but sometimes my work schedule changes so that I get a day off when Sam has daycare, a day to do whatever I want with. What?! I know, I can hardly believe it myself. Today was such a day so after dropping Sam at daycare my day of luxury started. I hopped into a nearby parked car2go and drove down for a 90min bikrams yoga pass. I have been feeling tired these past few days and todays yoga pass was not easy and I felt a bit out of it at times but I stuck through and felt golden when I was done. After lunch at home I went to a day spa that is just around the corner from us, it's small and very cute. They are running some promotions right now that I took advantage of, I was there for almost 3hours! It started with a mani/pedi then I had a back massage and last but not least an hour long facial, I have never felt so pampered in my life, it was amazing! I will go back for sure (next year when I have another chance..).  By the time I was done at the spa it had started poring outside, but walking in the rain pushing a stroller home from daycare is much easier after you have been treated like a star and feel like a million bucks. It could have been a hurricane outside and I would have still strutted along like the sun was shining. Today was such a treat and the "cherry ontop" was picking up Sam who was thrilled to see me.

//Nina

A not so welcome cold

Today Sam woke up with a cold, all the classic cold symptoms are there and I am bracing myself for what may come in a day or two. Sam has asthma which flares up when ever he gets a cold, he is still wheezing  from his cold in January so needless to say this cold is not welcome what so ever. (it never is) He takes Flovent twice daily which is a preventative steroid drug that we hope will lessen and shorten the asthma symptoms when he gets exposed to a trigger, in this case a cold. The idea is that he hopefully wont have a chronic cough for 8weeks like he did before Christmas for example or that he has difficulty breathing etc etc. This is his 1st "new" cold since being diagnosed in January and I am anxious to see whether this flovent treatment is working or not, will his symptoms be less and for a shorter period of time? Will he have spells of really having a hard time breathing? Will he stop breathing? Will we be up with him all night making sure a coughing fit does not go over into something worse? Many questions arise at the first sign of a cold.
A cold used to mean that you feel a bit sick, cuddle up and drink soup. A cold has a very different meaning for me now. Let's cross our fingers that my little boy wont have to cope with this shittyness this time. May the flovent work magic!!

//Nina