Fun at the Zoo

We made it to the zoo this morning. Hooray. Mission completed. 

Although a bit rainy at times it was a good morning to be there. The kids were at the perfect age to watch the monkeys and lions and polar bears, oh my. 

I'm going to let go of the idea of getting to a museum. We can make that a day trip when he's older.

Thankful for a fun morning- and now back to packing. 

Things I'm going to Miss

It's our last full week here. We close on the house on Friday and now that they've sent us a lovely email with the money we need to bring with us at closing I suppose it's really happening. 

Last night at dinner Benjamin asked me to pray and I started but couldn't finish. I'm going to miss it here. 

I'm going to miss our neighborhood- the trees and most importantly our neighbors, two of whom have become dear friends. Our kids are all close enough in age that they play well together and we can call one another when we have free mornings or afternoons and need to go for a walk, the park, or just have one another over to socialize. 

I'm going to miss being so close to the city... In that I'll miss that I can get my favorite ice cream of all time (Jeni's Salted Caramel) at a wine and cheese shop 15 minutes from our house. I'll miss that 2 minutes from that shop is a little bakery with the best petifores I've eve had. I'll miss that if we want to we can go to some great restaurants and be home in 10 minutes. I'll miss that the zoo and other museums can be a morning activity and not consume a whole day. 

I'll miss old town Alexandria. It's reminded me sometimes of Santa Barbara in that its got character but isn't an overwhelming city.

I'll miss del ray. When we venture down there it reminds me of some little parts of Denver I liked when visiting. I'll miss the mom and pop shops galore. 

Although our house has been driving me crazy with its lack of space and overall fact that its been fighting us- its our first place together. It's the house we brought Anderson home to and where he's spent 20 months of his life.  There are a lot of memories here and as Benjamin has reminded me- we'll look back at this little place and think of how quaint it was. 

This time is in fact bittersweet. 

Soaking it up

Trying to enjoy our last couple weeks in our neighborhood and close to the city. I have high hopes of trying to get to the zoo and to the natural history museum so Anderson can see the big dinosaurs before we go. We'll still be close enough but not 10 minutes close.

In the midst of packing I'm figuring out paint colors and think we've made some progress today. Potentially the neutral for the family room, kitchen, dining room, and master are figured out. Hooray!

A little update

Things have been busy around here. Anderson and I were sick for a week, we found out we had to move out of our apartment, we house hunted, and now we're in the process of buying a house. Big times around here.

My free time is now consumed with packing boxes and trying to figure out paint colors. I'll be back when I can!

Balanced Beginnings with Robin Long

You've heard me talk about Robin over at the Balanced Life before.  Robin is now pregnant and knew she had to come up with a Pilates program that would work for her growing belly.  She just came out with Balanced Beginnings, a program for mamma's to be!  

Since many of you are in that boat I wanted to encourage you to check the program out and if it seems like it may be a good fit act now to get $100 off the program!

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