Hello everyone!!! First off, I'm so excited to be joining Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom for Happy Homemaker Monday and I LOVE this new graphic that she made for the HHM linky party! Its so pretty and so peaceful! It reminds me of slower days, and man- I'm in need of some of those slower days! I'll also be linking up with Holly at Pink Lady for Hello Monday, and checking in on all the lovely bloggers over there! I sat down today with my blog and it was honestly like a sigh of relief just fell over me. This morning has been hectic, and planning for this week has my head spinning- but since I have been working to return to this blogspace, over and over again I realize that its so good for me to have this creative outlet where I can share my thoughts, my heart and just sit down and talk a bit with some friends. I've been in and out of the blogger world a bit, and I've changed my blog and blog title (url too....) more times than I can remember, but all of you have stayed the same and I feel like its sitting here and catching up with some old, and some new friends. Love it.
As I mentioned this week is full. For some reason I was super ambitious and decided it would be okay for my little guy to play baseball and soccer this spring, since it was his last time to play baseball and he had already committed to soccer. He's really loving it, but it takes up most of our evenings. This week in particular my other evenings are spoken for as well- and I dislike weeks when I don't have a lot of downtime. But, I'm working on something that's more practical than physical. I'm trying hard to carve out downtime and be intentional about it. Sometimes that means just walking into my bedroom in the middle of the day and doing some breathing exercises. Sometimes it means just sitting down and visiting with my kiddos. It's not something I'm used too- I always hit the ground running. I love a tidy home and try and keep up with it like a drill sergeant sometimes, so I'm working on that. I live for days I can stay home and clean and just have a slow day- but there are some days that won't happen and I'm accepting that. Stephen and myself both are trying to learn and accept we can't do everything, and that's a hard lesson to learn.
Yet last week we were super productive. We actually got a LOT of work done on our chicken coop! I can't wait to share some before and after photos because it will look like a totally different coop when we are done, but its looking amazing. We also got our raised bed garden planted, so that was wonderful. We got a lot of things cleaned and organized outside- so its still a work in progress but we are making big progress. Hopefully we can get most of it ready before summer, its so hot in the summer its nice to knock out big projects before it gets too hot!
Well I have rambled on forever, so lets on to the linkup, shall we!
