Grace in Small Things, March 21, 2013

Hi Everyone!

Happy Tuesday!

Here are some things that are good in my world today:

1) My Dad's here visiting (love having him here) and we went to the Route 66 Diner for lunch...so cool. Sissy and Bubs were both wild about the milkshakes. By the way, the kids are usually very good in restaurants, but lately (the last 2 times) Sissy has been doing this incredibly loud shriek when she sees her food coming...I secretly think it's adorable...she's just so excited...but I know I must break her of that habit :)

2) Found a lovely and SHADED playground on the way home (shaded has been a hard thing to find)...it's a place I've been meaning to try out and I'm so glad we stopped there. Can't wait to go back. Also, Bubs surprised me by going down the BIG slide by himself (backwards, but still...)...he's so brave

3) I love how much my kids love books. There's nothing they'd rather do than have someone read them a story

4) Most of what my husband is doing at Sandia is classified, meaning, of course, that he can't really talk about his day. I still ask him, though. "How was work today?" I'll say. "What did you do?" The standard responses are "Time travel," "Dinosaurs," or "Aliens." Today it was "Time traveling dinosaurs (with laser guns)," just for some variety. That man is always making me laugh...love it (and him)

5) I've got some cool work projects coming in...and I'm going to get to do some work over the next month or so with a Boston ad agency I haven't worked with in a while (because normally they want me on-site, which used to be awesome because I loved going to Boston...there were years when I spent literally months there...but that's no longer tenable with the babies). Anyway, psyched to be doing a project with them, and some other work on the horizon is really cool, too. Good to have some solid projects on the books as I need to build up a maternity leave fund (and the last few weeks have been REALLY quiet for me). Just hope June isn't too crazy. Getting the balance right as a freelancer is always so hard...

Hope everyone's having a great day!

XOXO