[about 1,000 lbs of dry shampoo & one cuddly bunny ♡]
[luca likes to be a doggy, too :)]
[we’ve all been so spoiled having our sissy girl with us all day, every day!!!]
[best sis ever]
[lu & his shoe. ob. ses. sion.]
you know, i haven’t had many complaints about this time that we’ve been calling a “quarantine” of sorts… for personal reasons, really! one, i’m a total germaphobe ever since having babies. i would literally quarantine every cold and flu season if i could, but the pressures of society typically prohibit that sort of thing until you’ve actually come down with something terrible! and two… well, that’s just it. the other thing… the pressures of today’s society! i think we could all use a slow down. we don’t seem to even know what’s good for us anymore!
and so! my simplified thoughts are these: we need community. 100 years ago. 1,000 years ago. and now! people aren’t meant to function alone. i’m oh so lucky to have home sweet farmhome and my family right nearby. and! people need to work. and provide. i mean, that’s how things keep rolling. and! people. need. SUNSHINE! heavens to betsy, i don’t care if its -20 degrees where you are, go sit in the open air!!! 15 minutes. in the sun. every day. it boosts immunity and kills germs. get after it!
but on the flip side… i’ve happily taken the forced life pause as an opportunity, because i dream daily of a forced life pause. haha. my babies have been home and so happy to be pressure-free living life with their family! gosh, it’s been such a gift. if only we had chickens in the mix, they’d be on egg duty. 🙂 but honestly, prior to all this, i was waking up struggling with the daily juggle every. single. day. and then i realized… so were my children. it’s not that children are bored without constant busy schedules, it’s that children don’t know how to be bored, because they start their day at dawn’s crack as we hurry them away from homelife for the day. and moms don’t have to be pinterest moms with their children home, either! kids. need. to. be. bored. gosh, i think a lot of the time we adult millennials don’t know how to, either! oh, and on that note… my husband? i literally haven’t seen this much of him since high school! that’s interesting, isn’t it? i’ve realized that it’s not always that we need to catch up here and there… it’s that we go such separate ways for most of the time that we forget how to have a normal daily flow!
so, i don’t know. i hope this time gives us a new perspective on well-rounded living. i hope more have had a chance to think creatively, grow a garden [one of my goals, but dogs and babies…], work from home some, or even homeschool!! and! i can’t be the only one truly realizing the importance of pouring into our country. i’m thinking more and more on how to shop small and american made. as frequent amazon shoppers [addicts], i know we can do way better! no, my recent target order wasn’t an improvement. haha. but i needed baskets, okay. and i’ve been keeping my eyes peeled for solid homeland versions of everything that crosses my mind! art, jewelry, meats, produce, clothing, furniture… i’m trying to make a list of good ole patriotic goods and services to support, and that just feels right to the part of me that was probably supposed to be born about a century ago. 😉
but… i mean… hallelujah that we can still have practically everything delivered. haha. i have to be honest about that. sure, i often feel like i was born in the wrong time, but OH, how i love my iphone and deliveries!! maybe i wouldn’t have known any better 100 years ago and i’d have probably been happy! but at this point, you’d have to pry my iphone out of my hands, i tell you. PRY!
i’m so very hopeful that an icky situation can be turned around for the GOOD of things!! soooo… let’s all hang out 6 feet apart if need be, bask in the fresh, glorious air, and shop small, local, american!!
if you have a favorite shop/service to recommend, i’d love to know!! i recently ordered a bed sheet from red land cotton and a precious muslin dress for maddalena from backroad daisy! both of which i discovered on the good ole ‘gram! although, full disclosure, after searching as many small jewelry shops as i could find, i ended up getting my most recent favorite earrings off of amazon. baby steps, right? i’m having a serious earring thing right now, though, so, i need some fav dainty jewelry shops! 🙂
xoxoxo!
[ps. we played in the yard among the pretty blossoms on the day we were supposed to have the pink full moon! brightest of the year! that night, i had alarms set and everything to peek out at it. and. there. was. no. moon. here. such a bummer! but at least i had a bonus excuse to wear pink. :)]
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