What? a new post?

Yeah, you read it. I've had a beer, I'm on vacation and I'm writing a post, so read it. Won't you? Today is, well, Tuesday. Let's see... so, the last post was March 3? I was so excited about Marching fourth that I just started living and living and not typing or writing... I suppose. Today is June 28th, it's a Tuesday, though it might as well be a Sunday because I am on vacation. I spent this day like it was a Sunday, cleaning house, listening to NPR, Ben and baby on bike far away (but not too far away). All is well and calm and, thanks be to me and my freedom, clean. There is nothing like the moment when it's all done and all the little piles are put away and I do one more walk through and all is in it's place, including me...exhale... ahhhh.....

And the award goes to...

Drumroll... Oh, thank you... Thank you... I just want to thank my friends and family. Ben, I couldn't have done it without you... My amazing daughter who teaches me, everyday, to slow down. Ahhh, my neighbors and friends for giving us an amazing place to root down. God in everything... That's nice. But most of all, I'd like to thank the actress that plays the roll of me everyday to the outside world... Without her, I'd just be.

Pâtisserie

Lifes a Beach... then you bake croissants.

standing at my kitchen sink, staring out the window...

Wondering what will happen in the future... dreaming, hoping... planning? But, not so much. I realize that I am just one of many centuries of women who have stood at their kitchen sink, staring out the window, wondering about the future. Then it comes to me that maybe one difference is that I know I am one of that group. I have the grand picture. I have seen myself standing at that window from somewhere out in the yard. From where I'm standing, it looks pretty peaceful.