lately

I don't know where the time since Christmas has gone.  It's a few days out from March and I've still never shared photos from our rockin' awesome holiday with family.  I'll have to work on that....

So what's been keeping me from blogging?  Well, life!  (:  Seems like a simple enough answer, right?  Outside of being an artist, stationer, wife, and stay at home do-it-aller, I have a part-time gig working trade shows downtown.  This happens about once a month and runs for a week solid, during which this self proclaimed introvert works 12-hour days socializing with total strangers and writing up wholesale orders for children's accessories.  Not gonna lie, it's one of my favorite things ever!  It is so time consuming that it's almost like preparing for a week of vacation.  All of the laundry, cooking, errands, order packaging, and everything else has to be done before I hit the trade shows or it won't get done for another two weeks.

Well, I had two shows in January, which definitely kept me on my toes.  Between them and in the subsequent weeks, I have been busy creating new products for the shop.  I'm honing in on my style, creating pieces that I love more and more every day.  It's been such a fun experience to see buckets of herbs and abstract flowers take life before my eyes exactly like I imagined them.  That rarely happens and makes me giddy that it is happening more consistently.

Then there have been hours in the service of the youth at our church, Saturdays hiking Kennesaw Mountain with Mr. F in the suburbs of Atlanta.  Just after the New Year, he turned in all of his MBA applications, freeing up time for normal things like date nights.  I've been trying to savor these moments with him as I know they will be short.  This is a great period of time in our relationship and I hope I don't waste it.

And of course there have been youth activities, where I spend weeks baking and making colorful backdrops for photo booths.  Mr. F and I have been watching a lot of films at home while we wait for it to warm up a bit again.  We wait for news for schools and plod away at the day to day.

I have been thinking so much about our lives here in Atlanta.  They are so full!  So full.  A rich, vibrant community of friends.  Church responsibilities, a growing network for see what i sea designs.  Just the other night we went to a fundraiser for summer camp for local girls.  This was one of the first events we went to a year ago when we first moved into the city.  We knew no one.  It was fun, but mildly awkward.  This year, we were engaged with people the entire evening.  I was working a baked goods table and catching up with friends from the greater Atlanta area over cupcakes.  It is a good life we have here, that I haven't documented like some of our other adventures.  This one is passing us by at a fast clip, and I'm trying desperately to keep up with it.  Take in the moments while I still can.  So this is my challenge to myself to do a better job documenting for future memories.

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