Let’s Chat, Shall We?

Hello? Hellloooo? Is anybody there?

The last week of April I was talking to a friend and I remarked that the last week of April feels like standing at the shallow end of a pool, taking deep, gulping breaths and hyping myself up for the attempt to swim all the way across the pool underwater in one breath.

May is the pool.

And I have just emerged at the deep end wall, gasping for breath, soaking wet, feeling a little bit like I might pass out, but also a little bit of a high that I just accomplished that shallow-end-to-deep-end breathless push. I gave it my all. I did it. And now I want to sleep for at least a week!

I have so many recap posts that I am so far behind on, but I wanted to post today just to kind of get myself back into the groove. Let’s pretend like we are meeting at a coffee shop and are able to chat about life 🙂

Here is what I would want to talk about:

• May. Why is May so full? I don’t know, but it is! And this May felt even more full than usual. I ran a half-marathon, we went to a Dayton Dragons game, Ezra graduated from preschool, my Mom’s birthday, my grandmother passed away, we hosted our first farm day on our property, Tera had several jump rope performances, Mother’s Day, Theo was a groomsmen in a wedding in TN so we traveled for the weekend for that, we had field day, Theo got the school wide pie in the face and earned over $1000, my birthday, the last day of school, school cleaning day, we hosted a huge bonfire night, and we celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary. I. AM. TIRED.
• Children. I am starting to move into a phase where I have more “big kids” than I do “tiny children”. It’s a whole new world for me, and I actually really love it. The kids are getting much more independent and I love that we can have conversations together. They are so helpful around the homestead and the house. The attitudes are….challenging…but we are learning as we go!
• I am finding myself in a unique spot of life where people are starting to ask ME life advice. And I find myself looking around going “who? Oh, you mean ME?” Hahaha. When did I become an adult? With four children, a job, a homestead, a marriage and *life experience*?
• We might talk about running or book reading, because those are two things that I really enjoy doing right now.
• We would probably talk about my school year and how it was tough in unexpected ways. I had an excellent class and felt fairly confident in my teaching abilities, but there were some circumstances that just made it feel really heavy and tough, and I hadn’t prepared myself mentally to be in those positions, so I’m feeling a little bit discouraged with a hefty side of burn out crossing the school finish line this year.
• We would for sure talk about our homestead and all the things that we have going on around here. I would most certainly roll my eyes at how many animals we have, but then I would reassure you that actually, my kids really do *most* of the animal work. And truthfully- we LOVE the homestead life, hard work and all.

My cup would feel really full after chatting for a bit, but I would also make sure to listen to you and what you would need to talk about! What would be on your mind? I would love to hear from you if you have anything on your mind that you want to chat about, too!