Weekend Lazy

Happy weekend! I hope there is a little lazy in it! ;)

I just thought I'd share a couple links that I've been enjoying this week!

Summer Reading Ideas ~ Modern Mrs. Darcy

Bring Reading Rainbow Back! ~ Kickstarter

Geninne's Stamps ~I AM DROOLING!

Potato Asparagus Salad ~ I've possibly made this twice this week... 

New Popsicle Mold for this summer! ~ parenting win!!

  

Adios! 

San Diego!

As most of you knew (from my plethora of instagramed beach pictures) we ran away to San Diego a couple weeks ago! We stayed a Grandpa's house and had a wonderful time playing on the beach and playing with family! Unfortunately I did not get pictures with dear friends we got to visit nor our family get-together in O.C. But here are a few...  

For Mother's Day we were actually all together! My parents, my sister and our families!

Our "second mom" Norma, came and celebrated Mother's Day with us too!

Of course we had to get a picture of mom and her daughters!

Leili and Koa are super cousins. They are super fun and cute together!

Our big adventure was braving L.A. traffic to go to the California Science Center to see the Space Shuttle Endeavor. I am a shuttle nerd and totally cried. It has been a life long dream of mine to see a shuttle.

It was amazing and wonderful and hard to walk away from. 

On our way out of town we made a quick stop at the San Diego Temple, my kids love to stop here. Leili did not remember it and now refers to it as a castle. ;)

Be sure to check out the other pictures on instagram! It was a great getaway! 

Yarn-a-Long

Joining Ginny today for the yarn-a-long!

Well homeschool co-op is over and so Wednesdays are a little less crazy so lets see if I can get this written and linked up today! Wahoo!

BOOKS:

I just finished Someone for book club this week, I am reading The 7-day Christian and listening to Minstrel on Audible.

KNITTING:

I finished my Spindleberry in San Diego visiting my Daddy and blocked it last week! And I started a Cosette Wrap on the flight back home. I am calling it my Technicolor Dream Shawl as I am using my Valentine's Day yarn from my honey! Dan asked, "Your making ANOTHER shawl? I never knew you were such a shawl person!", but really its just that I have gotten some yarn "for me" recently and its not enough for a sweater and I just don't know what else I'd use! In between I knit a sweet baby hat in white for a dear friend who needed comfort and prayers for her babe in utero. Sadly he was just not strong enough.  

Happy Wednesday! And thanks for visiting!

Awakening!

Easter 2014 next to my almost blooming lilacs!

Where does the time go? I kind of feel like I've missed a few years during this crazy ride. Some seasons are well etched and vivid in my mind, some are like a far away memory and some I just don't remember living through! But it also helps me to really GET what an experienced grandma once told me, that there are different seasons of life and you can do it all but you have to do it in the right season (she was enjoying a fulfilling career after years of being a stay at home mom). I am in this weird place in-between seasons, I am trying not to hurry the end of the one or the beginning of the other. I am not the mom of babes anymore (and after so long in that mode it is very strange). I did not go to the "Big Cloth Diaper Change" nor will I go to the "Big Latch On" this year. Instead I run to piano, or scouts, or homeschool co-op and dig my heels about how much technology comes in... 

It's also an awakening in a sense. I have started to remember who I am and desire to be me again. Can you believe I have interests and talents in more than pinning a explosion proof cloth diaper (although I proudly wear that accomplishment)! I'm glad to be a mama but I am also glad to find out that after years of surviving and being a different form of myself that I am still me! I am different and  changed from the experiences of the last 14 or so years but it is comforting to find myself under all these layers.

My kids still need me (some days more than possible) but it's not the same constant need. They can scrounge up things to eat if I'm absorbed in a sewing or knitting project, they are even great at helping me unearth the kitchen after an amazing cooking storm (or a few rough days worth of dishes)!

I know in a few years I will look at this picture as I now look at others and think how young they all were and how little I knew, but right now I see this picture as a time of change. And I'm happy with the change, there may be some growing pains but I think this is all good.

And Happy May Day! Who will you give flowers to today?