Fresh perspective

{blog update}

 

I spotted this beautiful poster on Pinterest a few weeks ago, designed by Emily Ley. 

I've been holding onto this quote, revisiting it periodically, re-finding inspiration. 

Rather than aiming for perfection, let's try grace. 

Feel the weight lifting already? I know. It's amazing, right?

Thank you Emily for unwittingly providing me with such inspiration!

xoxo
~Chelle

Weekend Recap

{absence makes the heart grow fonder}




So folks, it's been QUITE a while since my last post...

I am determined to blog {more} frequently. Seriously. Doing it. Starting now.

This weekend was a major whirlwind. Husband was on a manly camping trip with his manly friends, which left me and all my wife-friends home, alone. So, I had many opportunities to visit lots of my good girlfriends. Which was awesome. I love my girls.

Friday night was both awesome and awful. I'll explain.

My doula invited me to attend an informative meeting on cloth diapering. Which I'm really in to. Which I am now 100% sold on doing when we have kids. It was awesome to see my doula again after a few months. I am a little jealous of her gi-normous home.

Being at home alone overnight is awful. My husband and I do not do well apart from each other. They say, "absence makes the heart grow fonder", which I guess is true to an extent, but what if the fondness is already at max? I know I'm a lucky girl. A loving marriage where we mutually appreciate and like each other is nothing to shrug at.

Saturday was lovely, and long. At a lovely, casual baby shower we attended, I got to hang out with my little friend Si and his lovely Mommy! We sat on the lawn and played and fed little Si, soaking in the warmth and the dappled sunlight.  Swoon.

In the evening I met my fellow wife-friends for a small dinner, and gorgeous wine. We sat outside and chatted until the warm early-summer sun set and into twilight. Double swoon.

Even after all that I still wasn't tired. Didn't fall asleep until 2:45. Pure torture, I tell ya.

So, instead of sleeping, I finished my home organization binder!

Sunday - Church with Amy. Good message. I cried during worship, per usual. I feel God working in me constantly. The stagnation in my faith I have felt for the last few years is disappearing, and it feels amazingly good.

Arrived home after church to a freshly scrubbed-off-the-weekend's-manly-dirt-and-grime husband. His arms were so warm and welcoming. Man, I am such a baby without him.

Husband and I both craved salads for lunch, so we tried a restaurant we had never been to before, and I ordered the spinach salad with warm bacon dressing.  Can we say yumm? I was not disappointed!

The evening brought me to book nook... good times with good girlfriends discussing many topics unrelated to the reading material. Ha! We made note of the solar eclipse and remembered to not stare directly at the sun. Freaky how the sky darkens just enough to produce an ominous feeling, right?

I slept so well last night. So glad to have my wonderful husband home.

Happy Monday!

xoxo,
~Chelle