On top of that I want to book more portrait sessions, work on said portrait sessions, blog about them, blog about anything else, and make up routines for a Zumba class that I someday want to teach. Then, kind of out the blue, I found a love for food shopping and coming up with meals that I feel my family will enjoy. I have always been a fan of eating but cooking or baking the food has never really been my strong point- I am hoping to change that a bit.
I know that there is only so much time in each day so I'm starting to focus on certain things on certain days/weeks- with taking care of my son being something that always take precedence, obviously.
I love The Little Red House and have enjoyed a couple of recipes from Sheena's blog. I made this acorn squash recently and Jbear loved it. This week I drooled over her chicken soup recipe and the accompanying photos. Mine looks more like pea soup but the chicken is just hidden. I used mustard greens instead of collard and regular white beans instead of butter beans. It was SO delicious... so much in fact that I couldn't wait for a reasonable soup eating hour and just had leftovers for breakfast.
J loves letters and numbers like crazy!! My sister in law suggested that I embark on an alphabet project where I teach each letter (phonetically) for a whole week. We talked about Captial A and lower case a using the chalk board, a huge piece of construction paper and crayon, a paper cut out of an A, and play-dough. He was excited to go onto B then C but we kept going with A a few days this week.
Now when he sees the play-dough he screams, "AAAAAAAAAA".
Tumbling class.
Bubbles!!!
So I'm aware that this post is random and all over the place but this was our week in review, kind of. I don't feel that I need to be everything, or do everything I just want to try. However, knowing myself I have to set some limits or else I'll just get overwhelmed and do nothing. The way I see it is like this- I'll always be me, a wife, and mother. Some weeks though I'll be a photographer, an aspiring Zumba intructor, a homemaker and a really great friend who calls you back within
I love that J calls playdough AAAAAAAAAA. That is just too cute! I feel like you some days. It is tough to be everything and be good at everything and not get frustrated and stressed in the process. I know I suck at cooking/baking and so there are no expectations from my family in that regard... and I am also not good at managing my time, so there are days that are a mess. But to be honest, I have realized that the best thing you can do is to try and have fun... also, doing things because you feel like it is so much better than doing things because you told yourself you have to. It seems to me that you are doing exaclty that... doing the things you love even if they don't seem to be organized :)
ReplyDeletethis is so cool, all of it. it's hard to get everything done, but it certainly seems like you have a really good handle on things, or perhaps more importantly, a good sense of perspective about the whole thing. :)
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