Real Life | Holding My Breath

I feel like I've been holding my breath for the last twenty days or so. My blog reflects that. Silence.

It's been a wild wild wild ride of becoming a preschool teacher, helping my children adjust to full days at school, and working on several big home projects. Keeping house has been at the bottom of my list -- I'm surprised ants haven't moved in. This evening, for me, was spent re-scheduling my time so that I don't fall down into a heap after a morning of teaching, but know what I plan to do with my afternoon. Hopefully there will continue to be fun and photography and outdoor adventures in our lives -- we just need to be more intentional than ever about fitting them in.

I sorted through this month's [small] amount of photos and several from last month, remembering our trip to Montana and Idaho end of August and grinning at my silly kids' back to school photos. I'll share a few of the best ones here so I feel like we can move on.


















Did you hear me exhale? That there was a deep cleansing breath.

It's all going to be okay. Thank God we were created with the ability to adjust, to do hard things, to find new ways to live that work. We've got two teachers in this family now and two school kids! There are lunches to be made and tickles to be delivered, homework to be checked, piano to be practiced. We've said goodbye to an amazing summer and we're ready for a blessed school year.

And now that my camera card is cleaned out, I'll be taking pictures again.

Friends, we're back in business.