We celebrated my oldest’ birthday today, and I enjoyed watching him do all the things he chose and seeing him have fun. What he wanted most today was to hang out with family and friends, and to have red velvet cake. 🙂
Simple dreams come true.
I love being his mom, and I am thankful for another year together.
What are you celebrating this month? Make it good!! xo
Flowing…going with the flow and being in the moment. That is what I’m doing this week and am loving having the time and space to flow, even though I find it challenging to let go of schedules, expectations and control.
Tonight we ate dinner at 9pm, after Christian prepared it for us. We never eat this late, but tonight this is what flow felt like and we flowed, eating on the couches in the family room sharing crazy, chaotic, interrupted conversations.
Tonight I caught up with an old friend in between drop off and pick up points, because I’ve missed her and was curious enough to text and attempt to connect at the last minute and she said, YES! This is what flow felt like in the moment of not being too busy! It was great to give her and her girls hugs and to share a few moments together.
I could get used to this perfectly imperfectly unstructured summer and can’t believe we are almost 3 weeks in already. Where does the time go?
Life is good, especially when we flow.
nAMaste
Believe it or not, I am learning to relax in my old age!!
This is the first summer where we haven’t made “real” plans ahead of time that I can remember. I am practicing going with the flow on a daily basis without a definite plan, which is quite uncomfortable for me, and I’m actually starting to enjoy it. I feel liberated, unrushed and content just being (home).
I’m getting the hang of working from home and my flexible schedule and its actually manageable and doable! Today I worked for two hours before heading out to yoga with my BFF. I then did kid logistics and enjoyed a relaxing lunch with my girl before working for two more hours before running out with my daughter to get our eyebrows waxed together! Bonding at it’s finest!! When we came home, I finished up the last part of my work shift before dinner. I flowed through today and it actually felt good.
How do you balance work and life like kids and chores and exercise? It’s all doable, just sometimes a little challenging! I’m liking the practice, though!
Hope you’re having a good week!
Pray for Istanbul and our global community that is under attack. We are Istanbul. One Love, you and me.
nAMaste
Summer is a great time to break routines and schedules and to relax.
I’ve shifted my work hours to the early mornings, so that I can be “done” with my work by noon-ish, which means I am waking up by 5:30am and starting work at 6. So far, I am loving this practice.
I made a big salad and ate a late lunch outside on the back patio all by myself. After I was done, I put up the umbrella and decided to rest on the outside sectional sofa, closing my eyes for a half hour in the middle of the day. It felt good to do nothing and I rarely just sit. I loved it, and could get used to this inactivity.
I love summer, especially this second week with the kids away! Life has been less chaotic and I got to celebrate the moments with less stress.
TGIF – have a great weekend!
Happy 1st Day of Summer!
Today finally felt relaxing. Charlie went to camp, the big kids are in Mexico and I was able to work from home with limited interruptions and got a workout in too.
Tonight we had time to play a game together that Charlie picked out for me for my birthday, Pie Face. I love this kind of humor and laughed so hard!!
Oh guys, take time to laugh really hard!! It’s so good for your soul and it makes other people laugh too!
I am thankful for my crazy peeps that laughed with me with whipped cream all over their faces and melted the stress away!
Happy 1st day of summer, BeLoveRs! Be free.
I’m already exhausted!
It’s been a challenging week and I am over it, or at least the week is over and that makes me very happy. That’s how I roll …deep breaths and surrender and flow.
It’s the simple things these days that make me happy, like ice cream cake the day after my birthday!
thank you juliana!
I love open space, old barns and the look of old barn wood. Today I enjoyed a date with my husband at the Pichetti Winery. We stopped along the way to pick up my favorite food for lunch, a poke bowl from #gofishpoke and enjoyed our lunch on the winery picnic tables and a stroll around the beautiful property. It was a gorgeous day to be outdoors.
Made a wish!
I love trees, even the old and fallen ones.
Love the light!
I am content and another year older. How was your day?
Live it up, BeLoveRs!!
Xo
We spent all day at the soccer field today, after leaving our house at 6:45 am this morning. I loved it and am exhausted!
Charlie’s team won the championships and was so happy! I was excited for him to be on a winning team this year with an excellent coach and great team. It was really fun to be on the sidelines and supporting him with Jeff and the other families.
Life is good.
P.S. I am sad today about the mass shootings in Orlando. Those families are our families. Their pain is our pain. We are One. We can make a difference in this world by spreading love and acceptance and forgiveness. Be loving. Love you. Love others. Love us. One Love. No Hate.
Somewhere over the soccer field
this is summer!!
nAMaste
How did you take care of yourself today?
I saw two related posts today from women I admire, that made me think about this important question.
Here’s a a quick, 4 question, happily-ever-after-today Exam:
1) Did you get enough sleep last night?
2) Did you drink enough water?
3) Did you take time to exercise?
4)Did you use time to do “nothing?”
I think these are important questions and reminders to make us think about how well we are taking care of ourselves in this busy time of living and being.
If this were my final exam (since my kids are in this space of studying for finals right now), I would have failed today, getting 25% correct on such a simple test. Ouch!
This makes me think how I need to prepare more for my test tomorrow. How well did you do?
Be well, BeLoveRs. Take care of wonderful YOU!
here i am 