I love the spiciness of the jalepeno's and chili's combined with the freshness of peaches right off the tree from my parents house. Totally delicious.
Our trip to Australia is coming up. This last week has been so stressful, trying to manage what items I need to pack up, attempting to get ahead on our bills, wanting to deep clean the house before we leave so PERHAPS it won't be a total wreck when we get back home. All the stress has made me very impatient with both Violet and Cristian.
I've been trying to incorporate at least an hour of total solitude for myself every day to help with my stress levels. I've been taking hot baths with Epsom salts and soothing scrubs, looking up how to dry tulips, lavender,wild flowers and herbs on Pinterest (this will be one of my summer projects), going to the gym at night after Violet has gone to sleep, and carefully selecting several books to take on this trip, in case there is down time for that sort of thing.
I hope Violet enjoys this trip. In between the times we are wandering around cities, tasting local produce, skipping on beaches and dipping our toes in the ocean I have a few things to do just the two of us when we have small moments throughout the day. We will watercolor pineapples, and possibly print apple tote bags, paint our nails, glass stain suncatchers, and add items to a sensory journal I've created for her. I'm excited to share this experience with her. I am sad Cristian cannot accompany us and I will miss him dearly, but I'm looking at this trip as an opportunity to better get to know my baby girl and myself, to create some special moments between just the two of us, and to have a blast documentary this trip together for her doting daddy.
Sighs.
We will miss our main squeeze something fierce.
But it is time to nurture the wanderlust that has been steadily building since my last trip out of the country in 2009. A trip is long overdue and this opportunity came just in time to soothe my delightful and adventurous travel bug.
The sun has been shining on and off all day, teasing me and Violet. We wandered out into the backyard a few hours ago and were ambushed my glacial wind screaming out of the canyon, it was then I decided we were going to try out a new soup recipe I found on trusty Pinterest. 7 Vegetable Minestrone Soup. Speaking of which, I better get started on it.
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