Week 22 | 2019

We are home from camping at Mahoney State Park. It was a mixed experience, with some good things, and some not so great things. In past years we have run into a tick or maybe two, and this year we dealt with about 25 of them. We also missed ripe mulberries there by just a few days, while at home my strawberries were abandoned and ready to eat. Our favorite little shop in Ashland, Postscript Press, happened to be closed for the week. We had good experiences fishing, doing the rock climbing wall, and hiking. We saw lots of animals and snails. Swimming was good. But we decided to head home late the night before checkout rather than face another night in the cabin.

Week 21 | 2019

We are eating lots of strawberries around here. We got a few Georgia peaches from a fruit stand this week. There are lots of peonies, roses, and daisies to photograph (and smell). We are about to walk out the door to go on our annual camping trip, and I am just getting this done and checked off my list. It is definitely feeling like summer. Trying to catch my breath and appreciate it all as it flies by.

Week 20 | 2019

One more day of school for my girls. I am sick of unpacking lunch boxes every day, getting kids up to shower, and homework. TOTALLY ready for summer here! I am trying to stop telling myself that things are chaotic and that I am overwhelmed- but there is a lot of do, and the parents in this house are exhausted.

I am really feeling funky about my photography right now, and playing the comparison game, and social media is NOT helping that. I am tied to Facebook at least until I return from Guatemala (as that is where all of the planning takes place), but I deleted Instagram for a while. I am the queen of feeling so frustrated by online stuff, but then not changing my participation in it in any meaningful way. Right now, I would say my theme is dissonance- knowing what I want to do, having plans for things I want to do, but not doing those things because of life, kids, and general human limitations. Basically, things are so much better than they used to be, and I see the path forward, but I am feeling antsy because the going is slow. Or, at exactly the right place but it FEELS SLOW.

Pretty deep, right? ;)