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This is going to be a more than one cup of coffee day.

I did not sleep well last night because Samuel was all over the place. If his feet weren’t in my back, they were in my stomach, or I was getting slapped in the face with his tiny hand. He managed to knock the lamp down into the bed. He was sleeping sideways, or turning his body so his feet were in my face. He always looked like he was sleeping peacefully. I don’t understand it! How can he be all over the place like that and not seem the least bit disturbed?!

At one point I stared at the ceiling, waiting for my alarm to go off. When I finally decided to look at the phone to see the time, I realized I had 2hrs of possible sleep left. I think I’m being clever by getting up before my alarm. I’m making my coffee, getting ready to curl up under a blanket on the couch, and I hear “mooooommmmyyyyyy” followed by little footsteps. “I’m gonna sit in your lap” And he does, holding his Mario plush and his tablet, ready to watch Teen Titans Go.

I know he’s little and one day I’ll long to have him in my lap, and hear his little footsteps coming down the hall. I am reminded almost every time I whine about him being permanently attached to me, but right now, I would really enjoy having my body to myself for 5mins.

Last week the handle on the oven broke off. I went to open the freezer and it was frozen shut. I made a 2nd cup of coffee and couldn’t find it…turns out it was on the left side of my laptop. I’m right-handed and rarely set anything on my left side.
Sunday night I was sitting in bed after the kids were asleep and tried to at least start working on my post, but the keyboard wouldn’t work. Yesterday morning the coffee maker decided it wasn’t going to brew.

The last few nights I’ve gone to bed around 11pm-midnight, which is very early for me.
Last week I mentioned being excited for life to slow down after all we had going on in June and July, but we’re halfway through this month and slow is not the word I would use to describe our August.

It is what it is. I’m going to stop fighting it and just roll with it.
This is me waving the white flag…

I’ve given up on having every room in the house clean at the same time. It’s not possible with three young children pulling everything back out the second I put it up. There’s unfinished projects that they may not get back to right away, petshop stations set up in various rooms, trains and trucks are hauling toys from room to room.

Some nights I’ll go to bed with dishes in the sink because I can’t bring myself to wash them for the 4th time that day. We will have to contribute to ruining the environment by using paper/plastic products.
My sanity is more important right now.

I put up decorations by myself a few weeks ago and that’s good enough for me. I tried monkey hooks, those hooks with the tape on the back, but gave up and used hammer and nails, notice the touch of pink on the hammer?

As much as I’ve been ranting, the truth is we have an amazing life. We’re all happy and healthy.
We’ve been out living and enjoying life. Sometimes I’ll look around and start smiling because I can’t believe we’re here. I’m where I’ve wanted to be for years, I love our spacious apartment. Everything has turned out better than I imagined.
I’m loving our life.

Now if I could actually sleep at night, that would be great.

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I’ve had to find a new happy place since there are no beaches in Ohio…the gardens and metro parks seem to be getting the job done. Not sure what I’m going to do in the winter when there’s a ton of snow on the ground.

We visited Wegerzyn Gardens in July. It’s free and so far we’ve only seen the Children’s Discovery Garden.
I’m thinking we’ll go back sometime this month to explore the rest of the gardens, and probably in the fall when the leaves are changing.

We met one of my friends for her birthday and she snapped several photos of me. I was unaware that she was taking them, but I’m glad she did because I love them!
Most of the pictures I have of myself are selfies, so it’s nice to have these.

These two are my favorites.

I’ve always loved pink and red roses, but I think pink lilies are my new favorite flower.
Aren’t they gorgeous?!

I even like the orange ones.

I need these kids to slow down with this whole growing up thing.

The kids had VBS at the end of July, and we had been running errands almost every day that week, but we had an hour to kill one day so we stopped at a park. It was 90 that day but they insisted.
The only time I left the shaded shelter was to snap these pictures of them, then I went right back to the shade. There was no breeze…I don’t know how they were tolerating being out in the sun like that.

One day last week I took them to Englewood Metro Park.
The lady I spoke with on the phone told me there were waterfalls and a small playground for the kids, but she couldn’t tell me exactly how to get to either one.
I drove to an entrance and we walked around for a bit.
Definitely going back to this one in the next two months.

This one wasn’t far from the Aullwood Nature Center.
I would love to visit at least two more of the metro parks before the weather turns too cold this year.
If not, I’ll put them on our list of activities to do next spring/summer.

The last two months have been so ~~chaotic~~ productive, with the move, getting settled as best we can, exploring the city, church camp, and VBS.
I have enjoyed all the things we’ve done since the move, but I’m looking forward to slowing down this month.