meh...moving.

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” 
― Anaïs Nin

I should be packing. But I keep stumbling upon pictures and getting lost in old journals. So, amid boxes piled high, all I can do is sit and smile, reliving all of the adventures we've had so far. Gosh, I love this little family of ours. 

But I've got to stop procrastinating and take advantage of the nap Lyla Bird is currently taking and fill the mostly empty boxes starring back at me.

Man, oh man, do I hate moving.

to swim in the sea

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

 I love these pictures from this vintage-inspired maternity shoot on a beach. 

Along with getting my passport last minute 

(oops, I forgot to change my name on my passport after we got married),

I have been searching all over for bathing suits that fit this new body of mine. 

 Bathing suit shopping is no fun...and its even harder seven months pregnant,

but I have renewed hope after seeing these lovely pictures. 

 

And if all else fails, I'll don a moo-moo and swim happily with the whales.

 photography by Katty Hoelck

dreams and a chair...both waiting on laundry

"I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
— W.B. Yeats

 Mr. D and I went to yoga for the first time in a long time last night, and this morning 

I can hardly move a muscle without feeling the effects of [attempted]

pigeon, fish and downward dog, to name a few.

But I am feeling - as of this afternoon - a new and inspired determination.

But before I start sketching what I've been meaning to paint

and typing what I've been silently writing

or cooking what sounds so good I can almost taste it...

I must tackle that pile of laundry in our room where - 

somewhere underneath those clothes -

a chair used for sitting 

once sat.

putting off procrastination

One of my greatest weaknesses...procrastination.

Another weakness...making lists and then never actually using them.

But since today is the start of a new week, I am going to actually 

check these things off of my to-do-list...

• starting with the loads of laundry I have mysteriously accumulated around my room ...and maybe on the chair by the door in the living room...
• clean out the refrigerator...and then actually stock it with things I WILL USE the rest of the week
• buy a baby present and a wedding present (both of which I am really struggling with good ideas for)
• sort through the little pile of insurance bills that I avoid eye contact with, at almost any cost, which are sitting on the corner of my writing desk
• finish The Help (which I love and is the one thing that could possibly cancel out all the other things on this list)
• finish and develop my roll of Diana that is half Houston, part Dallas and little bit of DC all in one
• get rid of clothes I don't wear and store away all of my winter clothes

The weekend was lovely and I was dreading starting a new week, but this list has me ready to attack it ...full force...Happy Monday! 

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Photo found on A Beautiful Mess by Sherri Dupree