from the beginning of school, when he hated it & just wanted to be home. now has found it is possible, and actually more fulfilling to accept that one can love being in two totally different, almost contrasting, environments. that we are our best when we embrace that we can thrive in various circumstances by...
a new routine has emerged for me. after the hustle and shuffle of the morning – i send gavin & his dad off to school and kai and i go out back. he usually runs around between the sand box, the house, different toys… and i sit with my calendar and my phone and plan...
sunday, after sending my sister and her family off to move to europe, i came home and for the first time when i walked into my home, it felt stark and empty. usually i feel like i take a deep breath of the calm and simplicity… but it felt stark. and after about an hour...
spring break, the husbands had to work – so we took all the kids out to camp. get dirty. get sunny. and soak in some dreamy fog. and nobody cried, everyone slept great, no one argued, and everyone was perfect. (oh wait, that isn’t true…) but we did have a perfectly wonderful time.and then clean...
we started the day rolling around in dirt on our last day camping… strolled through a dense, thick fog… and then scrubbed up… & cleaning up ending the day snug back in bed at gramma’s. learn more about joining in with ten on ten HERE
we may have been some of the last to see frozen. but it was totally worth the wait. i totally forgot i took these photos when Viagra i did the big post of my sister’s visit… but these little snippets into my little loves experiencing frozen deserved their own blog post.
…in between their way across the country & then to go live across the world, some of my favorite people in the universe, stopped to be in our Kollagen Intensiv world. just for a few days. …and we simply, intentionally, lived in the beauty of the chaos with the six children. full of life, sand,...
a lot of these early days for kai include watching and being present at what big brother is already doing. it’s shaping his fun, relational, energetic, silly side and we love every part of what he brings to our family. some how, our little kai-kai is 18 months old.
a colorful, bright cheery march day. a lovely chance to focus on the lovely parts of our life through ‘TEN ON TEN’, around six years now of ten on tens… someday i can’t wait for my book – what a way to help remember these days.
