I feel so old saying this but... what do you mean it's already August??? Time has flown lately. We moved 2 months ago and I feel like I haven't had time to breathe. We were 2 weeks at Joe's parents, then a month in our new place, then 10 days traveling (good trip! I had uninterrupted sleep and read 4 books... heaven!), and now I've been back for a week and I feel like I have been running this whole time -and not running physically, as my weight shows!
I just need a minute... to set up a daily routine for us (I thrive on routine), to figure out whether we need to buy a car or not (I can walk to everything but I feel constrained to that 1 mile-radius around my apartment. 1st world problem, I know), to gather all the documents we need to apply for a loan in case we buy a house, to gather all the documents to finally tell my government that I've been married for 8 years and oh by the way I have a child and I want him to have French citizenship, to keep on reading, to catch up with friends, to take my mom's phone calls, to set up appointments for a dentist and optometrist for Leo, to see whether he can take swimming lessons anywhere, to...
Pfiew..... I have a lot to do and I feel I have no time to do any of it. Leo goes to bed by 830-9 and we usually watch TV shows at night and then our crazy days start all over again (interrupted by nights that are still crazy. Yikes).
All that rambling to say... I am incredibly grateful for the life we have, for being so close to family (we've seen them every weekend and I love it!), for working from home, for my friends, near and far, for a God who loves me and showers me with blessings. But it all goes so fast! I might need to take a morning off and write everything down. Hmmm, maybe I'll do that!
How has your life been lately?
Books I have read, in case you're interested: Damned Nations, The Light Between Oceans, The Fault in Our Stars, The Lost Wife, The Language of Flowers, and I have begun Bring Up the Bodies and Running the Rift (and I have some books waiting in my Kindle queue: The Bungalow and the Cleaner of Chartres). Gah I love reading!! Recommendations in the comments are appreciated :)
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I hear you! You wish for an earlier bedtime so you can have more time to do what you need to do (or have 'me time'), but then you want to spend as much time with the kids as possible. I usually flop in to the bed, exhausted.
I'm reading "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?" and am loving it! It's set in Seattle, so you might be a little 'homesick' (or happy that you left) when you read it, but the woman's disdain for Seattle is side-splitting!
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