kaimana peed in his toilet for the first time tonight! i'm not pretending that it wasn't pure luck, but before bathtime tonight i had him sit on his baby bjorn potty chair... and voila. i think he was pretty proud of himself. zach and i certainly made quite a show of how proud we were :)
Monday, January 25, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
rain rain go away.
i decided i could wish the rain away or deal with it and go outside anyway. this morning, with kaimana in tow, that's just what i did. after many days of deliberating, i decided that today would be the day that i would purchase a zoo membership. excellent! zach had to take the car to work this morning, but i was determined. i checked the bus schedule, threw rain jackets on kaimana and myself and hit the pavement. we arrived soggy but excited at the zoo and hung out there for 4 hours. despite the weather, a lot of the animals were active. they also have an indoor play/interactive learning area where we played for a while to dry out a bit. unfortunately, kaimana fell asleep on my shoulder on the way to the giraffes. fortunately, we'll go again soon!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
just enough.
there's something to be said for having just enough.
in this case i'm referring to having just enough space. it impels you to dispose of clutter, get organized, and only hold on to the things you truly treasure. goodbye junk. goodbye clothes i haven't worn in more than two years. goodbye books from college that have been held on to 'just in case'. it's hard enough with a one-year-old to feel uncluttered without clutter from the past hanging around.
one of things i now truly treasure is the freedom from working a job that was making me miserable. yes, we've given up apartment managing. thank goodness! which also means we've moved out of the old and into a new apartment. it's a great little space, but is a little less space than we had. but i don't notice it (well, maybe i notice it a little in the kitchen). it fits us perfectly.
i'm also starting to treasure my 'me' time for the first time in a long time! (that sounds like a lot of time.) now that the move is complete and the holidays are over, i'm finding that i'm actually able to do things like, for instance, blog. and work on the quilt i started 3 years ago. and prepare lasagna in the middle of the day so that when dinner time rolls around it's ready to go! it feels so good to have time. not too much, so that i'm sitting around wondering what to do next. just enough.
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