Travels

It seems like I have no time to blog lately!! Agh! Each time I think about sitting down I know I'll end up spending thirty minutes writing and it just seems so overwhelming that I don't do it and then look my blog ends up dead and I write nothing. But it's my blogiversary this month, five years! yay!! and so I figured I should take more time to write because I really enjoy having my archives and looking back on what I've done these past years. My kid's lives are in these pages and it's incredible to be able to look back and see them so small and me so unsure or scared or amazed or whatever I was feeling at the time.

I'm really busy lately and hey you'd think a poor mamie in a flowered petticoat without a car would have nothing to do all day but look at seed catalogs, but I've been busy planning trips. In a few weeks I'm traveling with Seb to Shanghai for a week so take THAT miss mamie flowercoat. We're leaving the kids with the in-laws and heading off child free for a week. When I told Little S he looked really disappointed and said "but you just had a weekend en amoureux!! not again!" because he was thinking about last month when we left him for three days to celebrate our anniversary. I'm not feeling the least bit guilty though. Seb has clients to see during the day and I have the city to explore and then at night we can have dinner together. I'm really excited to see China and be in a totally different world for a bit.

I've also planned a trip home to see the family in Florida in Spring. I breathed a huge sigh of relief when I got everything booked, whew. I think I hold my breath between visits and somehow having a date set for a visit makes me relaxed. It's much harder now to plan visits with two kids and that always weighs heavy in the back of my mind.

I finally got out to do some thrifting the other day even though it was with kids and my neighbor. It was fun for me but my neighbor was in very uncomfortable territory so it was kind of funny. It isn't really her passion to go thrifting and it was painfully obvious she wanted to leave. I don't think she's going to be my new thrifting buddy. I've been itching to go a lot more because I'm getting rid of all the old furniture in the house. It's really not so much wanting to change out of superstition but from a desire to change the stale energy in the house. The table in the dining room for example has been in the same spot for YEARS I'm certain, probably fifty years. I still use it and I didn't even move it from that spot. Yeah maybe I cleaned it but it's still there rotting in the same spot where someone else ate there a lot longer than we have. I want to shake things up and change all that stale energy. Besides I feel my taste has really changed over the past two years so I'd like to make a fresh start and modernize the old house a bit. I'm still putting old pieces in our house but at least I've chosen them myself and put them in new places.

I'll share my thrifted finds in another post when I have time to upload photos.