In the Eye of the Storm

blouse: Ralph Lauren, top: INC, skirt: NY&Co, shoes: Guess, bag: Kate Spade NY

I hope everyone is prepared for the hurricane coming their way. I know that its likelihood is very high according to the weather channel and people are taking it very seriously.
We are going to get some major rain in central New York but honestly I'm just not freaking out
and surprisingly staying very calm. 

Although, I have couple candles and some flash lights, and if anything really bad comes our way, we are going to migrate to the parents house. My mom has her own well and cast iron wooden stove which is going to be a life-saver because we can heat the house with wood. We have plenty of canned beans and tons of rice which is going to be our food in the most unfortunate circumstances. 

But until then, there is still classes to teach and work to be done.
Praying that everyone of you stays safe, warm and somewhat dry.

Apple Scrumptiousness {recipe}

I have a great and super easy recipe for your weekend. The fall is in full swing and not making something with apples is just got to be some kind of sin. I love apples and literally eat them by the pounds, so incorporating them in baking is another great way to use up the vitamins. 

I am not much of a baker. I do like to make sweet things but nothing to fancy, nothing that involves more than couple of mixer attachments. 

I found this recipe when I had left over puff pastry and some apples, and nobody does it better than the The Pioneer Woman. 

Here is the recipe because I did not feel like re-inventing the wheel when she has done such a fine just explaining every step.

Enjoy! 

Contemplations On Impending Motherhood

I honestly have to say that I am scared of the future role as a mother. It is an enormous, gigantic and such an amazing responsibility for someone else's life. So in a way, I have been fighting it. 

I wanted to hold on to the old me where what I did only impacted myself and not this other 

tiny person inside of me.

I honestly am terrified of the thought of this great change and great responsibility, the birth process, the first bad word out of his mouth, the first tantrum and the thought of me forgetting my baby somewhere in the store. (It's the pregnancy hormones giving me weird dreams)

Also I have been mad at my body for doing what it's supposed to - growing my healthy boy inside me and I feel terrible for it. 

I just don't want my little guy to feel unloved. 

I think it took me a while to recognize the change that's happening and the fact that I didn't want to 

accept it - in everything from my body to our home dynamic. 

But there will be three of us and it's a wonderful thing.

I have to say, I am grateful that God entrusted me with this awesome responsibility and that I was worthy 

of His great blessing.

 I am happy to carry this little life. Every time I think of this little man inside me, my eyes tear up and I get a huge something stuck in my throat. I can't breath from the thought of it.

This is only going to happen once. I will be pregnant with our first child only once and it will be forever different, because life is amazing. No matter what God holds for us down the road.

P.S. Check out the Fall Remix Challenge  from lovely Jessica @ What I Wore. This is going to be funnnn! 

Embracing the Moment

top: Target, cardigan: Gap, skirt: Express, shoes: Nine West, necklace, bracelet: Charlotte Russe

Once upon a time, I vowed not to live life ungrateful  I didn't want to work all my life for that dream job, just to get there and realize I didn't want it after all. I didn't want to wait to live. I didn't want to think along the lines of "just let me finish college then..." or "when we buy a house of our own, then..." or " it's when we have kids of our own then..." 

But lately all I catch myself thinking is exactly that.

I have to admit, I haven't been embracing each and every moment.

I keep thinking forward to the end of my pregnancy and what I'm going to do then. How I'm going to exercise more, take my kid to the park and do other fun things.

I keep thinking that when we finally move into our new home, I will have all my cupboards organised and shelves without any dust. Ever.

That's what happens, when we forget to just live in the moment. Do the best we can to enjoy life right now.

Even if that means organizing all my cupboards right before we move.

But you don't wake up one day thinking, that from now on you will enjoy life and embrace the beauty of it.

It's a process. It's enjoying one day at a time.

This year has been the hardest of my entire life but it's also have been the most blessed. I am learning to live to the fullest because I don't know what tomorrow will bring and how it's going to change me forever.
Here is to enjoying the life right now.

Have a great day! 

For the Peoples

blazer: H&M, skirt: Banana Republic, shoes, tights: TJMaxx, scarf: old

Sometimes people disappoint. 

Sometime, people hurt.

Other times, it's great to just share with some people.

And sometimes you find people (if you at least find one, you are blessed) without whom your life would just be endlessly empty and cold. 

So I guess, there are many different people in out lives, and they are there for a very specific reason.

Some teach us hard, valuable lessons. Others just support and encourage us. 

When you put all those people together- it's called life.

So to learn some things, to get better at other things, to challenge us, to support us, to guide us and sometimes just to simply make us mad, we have been blessed with people in our lives with whom this life is infinitely full and satisfying.

Thank you everyone for being part of this blog and journey I'm on.
Each and everyone of you is greatly appreciated!