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spent today between phone calls & FaceTimes and being mama to my precious firstborn. we’ve been taking our evening walks together and today we stopped just for a little bit to enjoy the sunset. “responsibility is the price of greatness” whoa. Jim Rohn is kicking my butt over here. (I am listening to The Ultimate Jim Rohn Library right now. it appears that the quote is Winston Churchill’s and is actually “the price of greatness is responsibility.”)
this weekend was an intentional time for rest & resetting. I feel inspired, renewed. ready for this fresh week & upcoming season.
The idyllic Saturday. Snuggles & sleeping in, coffee on the porch and signed the contract to move forward on our home! What! Baby steps! Or is it big giant steps?
We went to the splash pad for a sweet afternoon away as a family of three and, honestly, it’s the first little Saturday family date I really remember. Or maybe I mean... date for Eliot’s sake & fun, rather than him tagging along on one of *our* date.
Our photo today was supposed to be at the splash pad... I brought my camera and tripod, but no memory card 😅 so our photo is in bed, watching Tony Robbins “I’m not your guru”. Matthias’ response is awkward laughing and some cringing and I totally love it... and also cringe a bit.
Left Eliot with Bonins today and took a couple hours to drink sparkling pear tea followed by a honey limeade on a shaded porch in Market Street while I journaled. This weather makes me want to put pen on paper and dream big. I also Started History in English words again (haven't picked it up since 2014!) and it's so interesting. 😍
Thank you, God, for beautiful Friday afternoons, for family who love eliot & give me time away to reset, for family dinners on Friday nights, for jasmine & her skill in making our house sparkling clean and a pleasure to come home to. For so many things, I am grateful.
Feeling quiet.
Eliot is 8 months old today, but we’ll have to get our hallway photo tomorrow because we’re out at the Frost property celebrating a new marriage 🥰🎉
Mary & J. Michael get married tomorrow. It’s been pouring rain here… hoping that their outdoor wedding on the Frost parents property isn’t a muddy mess.
During the storms today, lighting struck one of our elms. One of the few massive trees on our two acres… (we still haven’t named our land, but I want to…) I actually felt so sad when I found out and saw it. It’s like a little piece of our magic was struck by lightning. :( trees are magic, aren’t they? I look forward to having more of the little ones cleared out so we can enjoy our land and our larger, older trees. I already know which one is my favorite… the one I’ll want to have picnic lunches under when we live out here. It’s a mighty oak & it probably has really good stories to tell about its years here on this land.
Went and looked at some GBG windows today.... still not our choice. Had lunch with Bailey & talked about her birth plan. Looked at front & back doors. Picked up breastmilk for Eliot. Napped because I’m either especially exhausted this week or possibly fighting something off. It’s wedding weekend though! Got to be well! new member zoom at 9pm.
Feeding Eliot looks different these days, but I’ve come to terms with the fact I won’t get to breastfeed him until a year like I dreamed. I’m so grateful for the mamas who have donated milk to my boy. He appreciates it as much as I do 😉🥰 and I’m grateful for the opportunity to be pregnant again so he can have a close sibling. 💕
Wait, it’s September? Ahhhh. I love the fall. And according to my Instagram it’s DEFINITELY already fall. I feel like I need to go shopping for fall decor and only diffuse festive blends. And it was so windy and cool this evening we didn’t want to leave this spot where we were playing in the grass. Gosh, what a perfect start to the month. Oh! And Eliot popped a third tooth! First one on the bottom. Sooo cute I could just burst. You know that meme about this year hopefully being a mullet? Like... we’ll party on the backside? I think that’s the case.
The rest of 2020: I’m ready for you.
For the first time in like one hundred years we went to the movies. We say tenet. And I understood… none of it.
Happy things:
Brunch at another broken egg with Matthias
Eliot playing in the water at Minnie & ipop’s
doubled up (& got the picnic basket I really really wanted)
Berry whip & buttered bagels with honey
In the middle of a scorching August, not all that long ago, a princess named Terri was born. She was raised in a magical home with 3 sisters & wonderful parents. At a young age, she met the man of her dreams & they married. ✨ They were told they would never be able to have kids. 😭
....Welllllp. Those doctors got that wrong. 🤣 Happy birthday to the most beautiful mom in the world. I love being one of your ELEVEN miracle children ✨🥰❤️
We celebrated with family photos because it’s nearly impossible to keep them up to date with how quickly the sisters are popping out kids at this point 😜
the composition of this family photo was a fail, but I had to share this because LOOK AT HOW ELIOT LOOKS AT ME 😭❤️ I am the luckiest.
Spent the day with a dear friend. Picked up lactation cookies from a kind mama who has blessed me so much. Celebrated Matthias’ dad: 60 years of life. WOOT!✨ it’s been a good day.
I’m barley producing milk right now, but gosh, Eliot loves nursing for comfort & I’m totally okay with that. I received supplements from Legendairy Milk yesterday. Hoping to notice a difference adding them in to my routine.
Exactly two weeks late, but we got our photo in the hallway. Happy seven months to Eliot 😜💞✨
what a hard week. transitioning seasons, conflict, all the hormones. tonight I wrote down hurts, frustrations, things I need to let go so I can move forward & burnt them.
my heart hurts tonight. buppy, my sisters dog, was killed by a loose rottweiler that attacked yesterday. and animal control has been horrible and useless, as they always are. (I only have horrible things to say about animal control and how stupid they are, so I’m leaving that alone.) so many things are being yanked up from our experience almost exactly one year ago now— the memory leaves me literally shaking around unknown dogs off leash. I have found that I also have unresolved anger about how the situation was (not) handled by the appropriate parties. more to work through.
if you will, pray for Lizzie & Charlotte. pray for peace & comfort... and justice.
Eliot went to the nursery for the first time today at church & it’s only because I was volunteering in there 🤣 he LOVED it. so many new toys & babies 😂 ok, this is the most only-mom-cares thing I’ve ever written. I can’t help it. It was just the cutest thing ever & we have the happiest baby ever 😭❤️ Tonight we celebrated Hannah Joy & Ethan & their newest little love in their home. Hannah Joy didn’t want the party to scream “baby shower”, but I literally brought balloons that yelled baby. Couldn’t help myself 😜
It’s Halle’s 9th birthday today. I miss birthday breakfasts with siblings... the only downside to growing up must be that. She came out to our land today with the rest of the family and while she played with Eleanor, Sarah, & Ella making fairy houses & playing make believe, the rest of us picked up sticks to clean up the property. The bobcat and tractor have been incredible for clearing the land, but it leaves it a mess. It’s incredible how different it looks as it’s picked up.
Honestly, I’m grieving. This week is hard. But this boy makes me happy and we love bath time so much so these photos on the edge of the tub were long overdue.
