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:: Just Us ::

The summer has been great.  One adventure after another: Galveston, Austin, the Bluebell Factory, more Galveston, feeding horses, many zoo trips, birthday parties, pools, st. arnold's tour, a surprise party, more Austin, more Galveston, California, Big Sur, and soon Santa Fe for me and dad.

But this past week I decided to slow it down.

School is about to start (i know its just preschool, but something about having a permanent activity multiple days of the week makes it feel legit and that the schedule should be respected, especially because you pay kind of a lot for the school too), swim lessons are about to start, the holiday season is around the corner (a little sad to admit, but i'm one of those people who starts thinking about christmas mid-summer....because i'm excited about it and because there is so much to do).  i look at the calendar and can already account for most of our time in the next few months.

i started thinking about all of that and realized how much our lives are on the go.  i know its mostly my fault.  your father is almost my polar opposite in this realm.  i'm a busy body at the center of by being (and i'm pretty sure you two ladies have the same bug, especially stella), so this week i politely declined play dates and the three of us (four when dad would get home) hung out solo.  took it easy, let stuff go.  we walked across the street to burt's pool almost every morning so the two of you could swim together, so we could play make believe together, pretending to play piano on the tiled walkway between the pool and hot tub (this was all stella's idea), making up songs about our names and pretending to go on trips from one side of the pool to the other, jane hooked to one of my shoulders and stella being pulled by a stick that we found.  then we would walk back home for some lunch and a good story session and nap.  only to wake up and play together some more.

i am so grateful for you girls everyday, not only because you're the light of my life, but because i learn so much from you everyday.  i am a better person because of you.  one of the biggest lessons you have taught me is to slow down.  it has been a huge learning curve, but i'm beginning to love this slower pace.

for example, we went to galveston to visit janet last week.  but this time i went with no agenda, except to see janet.  i listened to you your voices and put my itinerary on the back burner.  i put my phone down.  and it was so fun.  so enjoyable.  i never once felt hurried.  sure, we didnt get home until 9 p.m. that day, but we took our time, we laughed, we relaxed, we ate the best ice cream of our lives!  talk about luxury.

life is so much easier at this pace.  no bags to pack, no orders to bark, no hurrying around, tapping my foot as i wait for a red light to turn green.  as i write this, it sounds silly because what an easy concept it is to be a homebody, but its incredibly unnatural for me.  the phrase "stay at home mom" is funny because we are hardly ever at the house!

so anyway, this past week was the most fun, so lets do it again. rain is in the forecast for the next few days, and what perfect timing.  i'm just going to soak you two pudding-heads in until school/life takes over again.

here is to a week of sitting on the floor PLAYING.  for messes to be made and to-do lists to be forgotten.

i love you the most and the first.

xo




































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