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An Annual Update
I figured it was time for my annual post. In this moment I have a 2.5 year old pulling on my leg saying, "Mommy, can you pick-me-up-me???"
It's life.
Some exciting things have happened, my husband started working a job that actually uses his degree...it's pretty amazing. Not because I doubted at any point whether or not this would happen, but because he's one of the few people who graduated from college and is actually using his degree (ahem, myself included).
And, we made the decision to home-school our older child, Kai, for pre-school this year. It blows my mind that we're at that point already, but so far it's been awesome.
We're using Sonlight Curriculum, for those of you who are interested. It's going to work well because I have a kid who can be a mellow-guy, and two kids who love books. And this kid, LOVES books!
Because of my husband's (relatively new) job, everything this summer has been spontaneous. We only know his schedule six weeks in advance and even then it can change. But it's been a really wonderful summer.
We have gone camping-once. (In the past we've tried it with our very young children and I think we got pretty scared at the idea of being trapped in the rain, inside a tent, with two crying, dirty kids...again.).
We do our best to really enjoy Portland, we visit local parks, splash pads, museums (Child-friendly for now...I'm not sure the Art Museum would appreciate a loud "Mom! I have to go poop-poop" in the middle of a gallery).
Even though the planner side of me wasn't very satisfied this summer, it has felt nice to relax and "see what happens" for one of the first times in my life.
I'm slowly learning these lessons of striving for balance, even now that I'm in my thirties I'm still experiencing something new. It's nice to know that will never end. Some lessons are sad, some lessons are happy, and all of them hold some element of surprise.
