Oliver and I have reduced our T.V. watching to such an extent that unless a movie is on, the T.V. is otherwise rarely on. My production at work has been farely time consuming but I have started to run again and am beginning to feel more lively because of it. It's baby steps for me, and I got up to 1.7 miles by the end of April. A regular 3 mile run is my goal and with all the travel taking me from my plans I was happy to finally run 2 miles today! It was much easier than I anticipated and of course I feel great right now. It was triumphant!
I finally made a list of everything I need to move to my Moms and everything I would like to sell. Traveling as much as we've had has really shown me how much of our stuff we can comfortably live without. It makes me want to really skim our lives down.
My goal going into May has been to photograph all the items I would like to sell on Craigslist and get them ready for listing. I have to travel again next week but can list everything while I'm on my trip and have things available for pick-up over the weekend. Anything left goes into a garage-sale my sister-n-law and I will have in June.
This month has really been transformative. The sun is shining and the warmer weather and extra exercise have picked my mood up significantly.
Oliver had his last day of Art-based preschool yesterday. They had a picnic at the park where he spent a lot of the time running all over the playground. Before hand we went to the salad bar at the grocery store and I let him pick out all the fruits, veggies, and cold meats he wanted. He was delighted by the smorgous borge of tasty fresh food to choose from and dug into it the minute we got to the park. After that he would take breaks to snarf down some food including radishes which I'm not sure if he's had. He is a good eater!
The only thing on our horizon right now is that today is Austin's birthday and we are celebrating over the weekend with the rest of the family. It is so strange to see my sweet little nephew turning 4 already--so fast, but stranger yet to think Oli is next. Happy Birthday to Austin!
The spring and summer bring many promises and already new friends and contacts for me. Life is shiny right now :)
