The past handful of weeks can be summed up by our current mantra Work hard - Play hard. We spent the warm afternoons hitting up different playgrounds, from Nay Aug, to Laflin, and around to McDade, and spent the evenings in the yard soaking up every last golden ray of glorious sun. Our cheeks are already sun kissed and it's only the beginning of April. That early warm streak may have left me a little spoiled, ok a lot spoiled in the sense that when I check the weather I grumble over the high temperature forecast of fifty two degrees. Wake up call for Angelina, it's only April!
In the evenings after Milani's breaths fall slowly and heavily into slumber, I've been cracking out the computer and feverishly googling, and researching, punching keys into strands of foreign html code building my website, designing business cards, and logos, and watermarks. I know it's a bit cliche with Easter only a day away, but I'm totally jiving with the theme of rebirth and renewal. I have a fresh sense of purpose and drive, and my eyes are on the prize! I might actually be coming full circle from those dark days after I ditched that promising engineering career without a clue what direction to take, uncertain what pastimes I even enjoyed. Pausing to knock on wood. Good things are happening here.
And this little hiatus from writing was like time separated from a loved one. Absence really does make the heart grow fonder. I've been craving the time to knit words into stories, and plaster this space with pictures of my littles, I just had to let my work momentum wane first. I realize just how therapeutic this blog is, the way it encourages me to shift my perspective, and squint through the fog to gain focus and clarity. I am certain now more than ever that my mental health depends on the sweet release I get from tapping out my thoughts onto this page, and the importance of creating the time for me to write amidst the busy days.
Since I have so many pictures accumulated from the past few weeks, and because a picture is worth a thousand words, I will let them mostly do the talking - mostly.
Around the House:
Nay Aug Park:
A Face Only a Father Could Love:
Back in the Garden:
Berkley's Funny Faces:
Laflin Playground Round One:
Berkley in the Backyard:
Laflin Playground Round Two:
Watching Buds...
Turn into Blossoms:
Around the Backyard:
McDade Playground:
In the evenings after Milani's breaths fall slowly and heavily into slumber, I've been cracking out the computer and feverishly googling, and researching, punching keys into strands of foreign html code building my website, designing business cards, and logos, and watermarks. I know it's a bit cliche with Easter only a day away, but I'm totally jiving with the theme of rebirth and renewal. I have a fresh sense of purpose and drive, and my eyes are on the prize! I might actually be coming full circle from those dark days after I ditched that promising engineering career without a clue what direction to take, uncertain what pastimes I even enjoyed. Pausing to knock on wood. Good things are happening here.
And this little hiatus from writing was like time separated from a loved one. Absence really does make the heart grow fonder. I've been craving the time to knit words into stories, and plaster this space with pictures of my littles, I just had to let my work momentum wane first. I realize just how therapeutic this blog is, the way it encourages me to shift my perspective, and squint through the fog to gain focus and clarity. I am certain now more than ever that my mental health depends on the sweet release I get from tapping out my thoughts onto this page, and the importance of creating the time for me to write amidst the busy days.
Since I have so many pictures accumulated from the past few weeks, and because a picture is worth a thousand words, I will let them mostly do the talking - mostly.
Around the House:
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| daddy's hat |
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| Milani in a box |
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| dress up |
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| she still loves hanin' in the crate. |
Nay Aug Park:
A Face Only a Father Could Love:
Back in the Garden:
Berkley's Funny Faces:
Laflin Playground Round One:
Berkley in the Backyard:
Laflin Playground Round Two:
Watching Buds...
Turn into Blossoms:
Around the Backyard:
McDade Playground:
I'm looking forward to more busy days, and striving to seek out the balance between the work and the play. I still have a lot of work on my plate, but I will be making it a point to carve out more time to write and to post.
Happy Easter!