Easter

Charlie enjoys a nice warm fire as much as I do! When you get lots of rain for many, many, MANY, days in a row nothing quite takes away the chill like a warm, crackling fire, or makes you want to curl up and nap more at 6pm at night! 

It’s Easter week! 

Doesn’t feel like a holiday this year? I did make some tasty, sugary hot cross buns in honor of it being Easter week and because I miss Ireland something awful lately. They were outstanding right out of the oven and dripping with homemade icing... it’s a weird thing being away from family during a holiday, even a small one you would normally really only eat dinner together and move on from. Just the thought makes them all bittersweet. 

I do love the feel of the Easter season in that everything is made new. Everything! Not only our souls in Jesus dying and saving us but the trees, baby animals, weather, life in general! It just feels like a new season, one of hope and excitement for what’s coming! Bare feet, green grass, BBQ’s, camping, hiking and all things outdoors. Not to mention our wedding! What a time to start a life with the man who loves me day in and day out. Rough days always give way to new mornings and I love him more with each passing one... 

Here’s to new life. May we barrel through the hard, frustrating, painful times of life altering situations, believing that new beginnings are “only” a season away.

April

It’s raining here in Washington and I just love the sound, the smell and absolute inability to muster any motivation to do anything but sit with my feet up and hope the toddler wants to do the same all day??!!

Ten min later....... quick tent build, (she sat on for the tenth time today and cried) put ice in her sippy cup, (on top of the other insignificant cubes) grab my coffee for the mandatory cheers, three hugs, (and a head butt to the nose) three Mickey’s, one missing blankie, Moana and all her friends, arguing over boots or running shoes for PUDDLE JUMPING, we aren’t taking her bike to the store OR five blankets and yes, you can have “one more minute” to be adorable before nap time.

Toddlers are what all adults wish they could be... fearless, nosy, messy eaters, carefree, hoard everything, obsessed with something one moment and could care less the next. Life is brand new around every corner and all it takes is an “all better” and literally anything is fixed... forever!

I love the way each day is so full of wonder and joy for them and wish when I opened my eyes in the morning I felt that, and not the urge to smash my phone and just live in a box for the rest of my life, sleeping. (Not because I don’t love my “job” I actually look forward to going every day and can’t be sure I could even consider it a job, as it’s just too fun!)

... Adulting is hard. But hey look, there is a piece of chalk floating in my coffee and I already can’t wait for her to wake up and fake laugh about it with me.