Venturing into the home school realm and already feel like I learn more watching them explore outside than they learn from me inside ✨
To be honest, from the outside, this tree they play in all the time looks far from magical. But the other day I walked over to the middle and looked up. Thankful for tree forts 🌳 and sunshine ☀️ and magic ❤️.
Neighborhood art update is on point #thistooshallpass
Hi 👋🏻 For the 5 minute ride down to the river, it felt almost like a date (damn COVID)... And like I could remember just for a second when we were young(er) and carefree and thought we were sexy and rode motorcycles. Thanks for keeping me young babe.
From last week when I took them camping and it was really hard and beautiful and brutal and sweet.
When despite the times that felt unbearable, we picked enough wild berries to make jam, caught and released frogs, SUP boarded through the lily pads and stalked all of the garter snakes.
Gratefully after camping (and generally in parenthood), the pictures and the good stuff might just get you to do it again someday.
But for tonight, we’ll be sharing a campfire in the front yard, maybe even sleeping in a tent, because EASE.⛺️😉💕
Simple beauties: my sister is in town, we visited the animals, and I can’t get enough of my kids right now ❤️❤️❤️
She’s 9, and the day was a beauty. ❤️Every year we learn more about this girl, we learn how to love her better, we get to connect with her more... and it’s everything. ✨ Her joy is everything, and a gift to anyone in her presence. ❤️ So grateful, this day and always, that she choose us, that she made me a mama, that we get to share this journey with her, that she teaches us so much, that makes me want to be better and that she makes me want to make the world better for her. 🙏🏼 Happy birthday baby 🎈
The state of the world has me pulling in tight. After our family hit the road in a camper for an indefinite amount of time and not much of a plan... leaving our house and family and friends and most of our things to explore together... it feels familiar to fall back to doing life with just us. And it mostly feels good. (Except that we’re not on the road and all of our people are within reach but we’re not supposed to hug them. ☹️)
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But I’ve been thinking a lot about those days of making decisions based only on us. It felt so much more intentional and personal. It bonded us in a way that has served us every day since.
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So in a way, I appreciate this reminder (or necessity) to bring it all back in. 💕
A trip down to the beach before bed is almost always a good idea. These two swam and made beaver dams in the sand for over an hour. Ben and I almost had a date night. 😉💕
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We’ve been talking a lot lately about being 💯 in on what’s great about where we are right now. That means remembering that we’re 3 minutes from the water and a swim before bed will help everyone sleep better. 🙌
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We won’t always live here (we have wandering spirits) and we want to look back and know (and for the kids to remember) that we lived at the beach when the beach was close. ✅
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Full of so much gratitude for this space for now... the water, the long summer days, the fresh air and sunshine. ☀️
12 years 💕 thankful today for all of you who were there that day and still walk with us today 💕
Just because my office in the screen porch on Friday afternoon made me happy, and because I love a fresh bouquet of wild flowers 🌻 also I’m giving that houseplant another chance, don’t judge ❤️
This night feels like those dreamy summer nights of my childhood. Screen porch movie with neighbors under twinkle lights... wish you could fee this too ✨✨💕💕
