Life Right Now – Space to Breathe

Hello…yes, tis I….*insert tumbleweed blowing across your screen*….I know, its been a bit like a ghost town around here, right? But the past few weeks…no months…have been hectic. But in all fairness the past eight weeks in general have been quite taxing on me.

Aside from me giving up whatever free time I did have and not dedicate it to blogging and instead to work research (and really, it’s been just busy on that front), there’s been just so much happening in our lives. The girls school is very active, and maybe it’s just in my head, but I feel like we’ve been pretty active in so much almost every week. And don’t forget it’s Parker’s “first” time at school really, so I want to be all in, all the time – don’t want my girl to feel like she gets the scraps of her parents. And Im loving it. But there’s two kids at school. And lets all have a moment of silence for empathy for me as I finally get to live that homework life as a mom. And man, I gotta say, it’s no flipping joke – that shit is killing me. And a few moms tell me,oh ya we’ve been through that. But let me tell you, this school we’re at is at another level…dont get it confused with the usual load of other schools…Our school is KNOWN for this. Something I thought I was all bets for, but life has changed since then, and it’s catching up with me…super fast.

Now, don’t get me wrong – or judge me – I used to do that stuff all before (all that homework vibes), when I used to sit with nephew and then my niece every day with homework….back when I didn’t have kids of my own. And that last bit rally does make a massive difference, because life as a parent is far more demanding and intense than life as a non-parent aunt, who has not been pushed to edges of death by sheer exhaustion, and insanity from having to repeat yourself thirty gillion times just to get someone to put on their gosh-darned socks… And that’s just my husband!…Kidding!

Actually, no really, that’s a helluva “just kidding”, cause if it wasn’t for my dear husband this post would probably have been a eulogy that he would have typed upin my memory.

The past five weeks have been especially hard with my health taking a bit of a suprise knock… dizziness and blackouts. But that’s another story for another time.

But yes, there’s loads that I’ve not shared with you all the way from January already, through to our annual nod to Autumn, and it’s been interesting times. The month of May alone, was jam packed with events and moments that deserve all the confetti and shout outs…but of course in all that there have trying times that have been seen in between. And relentless weeks of hard times that have earned “mom life” that hashtag, and inducing a desperate need for a little space to breathe…. But that’s called life.

And in this life, there’s one thing that I know,no matter how rough it goes, storms always bring forth life and greener pastures after.

So till then, I like to take a more manual approach to get my silver lining goggles nicely in place, and create a space to breathe…and one of my favourite ways of doing that is with photos…capturing good times: the fleeting ones, the momentous ones, and even just the ordinary ones…But, especially the ordinary ones.

Like…

There’s been these two all summer, who just seem to be growing tighter and tighter…

Whiskey follows her everywhere, and whilst I try my best to stop it, the two of them cant stop kissing each other.

Oh, did I ever tell you that madam has started ballet? (First term already!) It’s something she couldnt wait to do, along with so many other things that big sister already does. And this was her first showing – she did splendidly!She was so proud of herself. And rightfully so…she is grace and elegance wrapped in a ball of mud and wild.

There’s been friends’ birthdays…

And there’s been end of 1st school term ice cream celebrations…

These two…my heart cant contain itself with these pix…

There’s been plenty of dinners at the sea…

I’d like to say these were planned dinners…like intentions set to enjoy..but nope, these were mostly inspired by pure our laziness, exhaustion and resultant inability to drag ourselves to the stove one.more.time…

And the weather of course helped with inspiration…for this to happen more than a few times.

Fooling around while we wait for our dinner…

And while the end of summer was still giving us her warmth and light, there a few play park nights for us too…
Which, even despite my “just had a baby and now returning to work and still struggling” super low energy levels, still works out way better than keeping the kids cooped up inside.

Still so much to share…