Category: At a Glance

 

There’s lots to love in the day-to-day hustle of trying to get from one place to another. Four mornings a week we have to be out the door to get to school on time. Thankfully, we live a very short drive to school and most of the time we’re on time. It isn’t that hard to do, but it is lots of work. 

Some days my energy level is so very depleted by the time we’ve survived the whole day and done the bedtime rigamarole, I hardly have a slice of time to give even to myself…..only to wake up and start it over again. But it’s all good. It is. I promise.

Fridays, oh precious Fridays, are my very favorite because we don’t have to rush to be anywhere but exactly where we are, which is usually at home. The girls sink easily into play because they’ve been pushed and pulled all the other mornings of the week, they savor that Friday morning time.

I’m hyper-aware that it isn’t always going to be this way, time has a way of just moving a shit-ton faster than I’d like it. I’m savoring the few hours I get alone, TOTALLY ALONE!!!, a week, but it’s those few hours that give me energy to survive the dinner hour crazies, getting out the door on time, and even, maybe, the whining.

As ever, I’m behind in posting, writing, sharing; however, it’s mostly because I’ve been trying more to savor, bask, revel and be present in the hard work of living and loving.

 

 

I generally take a few hundred photos a month that I end up keeping and using in our family photo books. By the looks of it, I’m by far more inspired to shoot when the weather is nice and we have time to spend as a family. The last month of last year, December 2015, I took only 80 photos that I thought were worth keeping. As someone who loves tradition and being with my family, the rush of the holidays tend to feel overwhelming and not fully authentic sometimes. Maybe that’s just part of having small children and trying to keep them rested, healthy and polite during a season of giving and receiving. Here we are now, mid-February, and I’m just now pulling out presents that they got and we’re finding pure joy in them. It isn’t lost on me that we have a wide range of people that love on our girls, their community is far-reaching, so many fun things and parts of our brains and bodies to use these presents. But all at one time, it’s hard to feel appreciative totally. So, here we are, months later, feeling super appreciative. I’m a big one for thank-you notes, but this year I wrote them and didn’t follow through on sending them, save but a few. It just felt blah, to be honest. Lots of December was that way, but I don’t want to ignore it and it’s worth glancing at. Enjoy the glimpse.