Lately

Watching: Agents of Shield

Reading: Iron King - Julie Kagawa

Listening to: The Fault in Our Stars - John Green (audio book)

Eating: Grapes straight from the vine

Making: A smaller (and less cool) version of this

Gradually we are adjusting to our new pace.  It's good.  Sometimes I feel dog-tired and a little bit overwhelmed by it all.  Other times I am filled with irrepressible energy, and in those times I turn the study slash storage room into a craft slash playroom.  We've all be enjoying this, and while they play in their own little house, I continue the arduous task of organising the crafty side.  It is endless and exhausting and completely satisfying.  

Interim

Watching: Party Down

Reading: The Wednesday Wars - Gary D. Schmidt

Creating: Budgets & goals

Eating: Breadmaker bread

Drinking: Allpress

Waiting for: A Frankie Diary, purchased quite some time ago...

New Job Starting Day looms.  It's still a few weeks away, but I can't stop thinking about it.  Excitement and nerves.  All those 'New Job' feelings.  It's a bittersweet thing, weighing in one palm the benefits (and there are many), and in the other, a certain sadness to be leaving behind this sweet time in our lives .  Well I mean, not reeeeeally leaving it behind, as I will only be working for two hours per day. But still.  Gone, the coffees in bed.  Gone, the lazy-sitting-on-the-porch-in-the-sun mornings.  Oh well.  Embrace the new and all that.  xx

Portraits of my babies...

This season of our lives is so bustling and full.  It seems really strange to think that we have been here for not much longer than a year.  Stranger still, that our son has never lived anywhere else.  The country life agrees with us, and there's something extra special about watching my kiddos playing on the very same patch of grass that I ran about on as a child.  This place, for both Zan and I, is so much a part of who we are.  The mountains and the ocean restore us, it just feels totally right that we live here.  And looking at my babies, I wonder if it will be the same for them.  If, when they are adults and have their own partners and (hopefully) babies, they will feel the same desperate desire to bring their babies home.  Who knows, but I like to think that this place has entered their bloodstream, that they will always know it as their place.

N is for Nest

You would think, with all the Christmas posts I've been writing, that our house would be brimming with Christmas.  Actually, it's been very quiet around here, on the decoration front.  We have our tree, and other adornments scattered here and there, but otherwise our house is very much it's usual self.  The little touches though, they give a glow to our home that isn't always present during other parts of the year.  There's a slowly unfurling sense of anticipation, a hint of excitement.  

When I look at these photos, that kindly leave our messes and heartaches out of them, I think that this is going to be one of the Christmases that we will look back on with good feelings.  And that, is good.

I won that gorgeous Christmas Tree Decal from the gorgeous Ruby in the Dust x