Things That Are Good, Neither or Really Shitty

This week in review:  BUTTER, PHOTOS and INTENTION.

My husband has never eaten meat in his life.  I do eat meat, though sparingly, and I am just learning to cook it.  I do, however, buy local and organic and farm raised, where and when I can.  Especially for zee kids.  So THIS makes me feel better.  Butter is Back, bitches.

Working with a new photographer.  And, OMG.  EPIC. 

And, it was the New Moon.  Which meant I had to set some intentions.  

Are you wrapping up your first quarter, winter work?  Are you ready for a new beginning and to dive in?  

Or maybe you, like me, are still unfurling, slowly...

I Feel Like An Adult

So I have said a few times recently that for me, this year (32) is a year of brand new things.  I am aware of beginnings. (Did I say that? Or did I just think it?)

It's the first time I've had a coffee maker in my office.  

Well, wait, it is the first time I have had an office outside of my home.

I've also made my first friend as an adult.  And this is weird right?  Most people have friends, I think.  But if you work for yourself as much as I have and then have kids, you don't really have a lot of meeting people time.  

Since moving back to Providence I feel like so many doors are opening for me.  And in really healthy ways.  

I feel very fulfilled.  My kids are thriving (despite the long winter), my stress level is low (despite the craziness that is life due to moving my home and my business), my husband has lots of work and is happy (despite the fact that his desk is in the currently unheated basement), and lost importantly, I have a friend. Who lives down the street and has kids just my kids' ages.  So, like, we have everything in common (ish). 

But you know what the best part is? 

Not feeling so incredibly alone.  And to me that equals BEING HEARD.

Incredibly simple, yet incredibly empowering.  

So, I am going to add another word to this years word list: Community.

It is not always what/who you think.

We need each other, people.

Because when it is 8PM and I am already in bed, but stuffing chocolates into my mouth, it is far better to know that she is doing it too.

See?  Check out slide 4:  

March. This Month is for Finishing Things

This the the month that comes RIGHT before new beginnings.  It's like every muscle in your body is ready for that fresh start and you are so coiled and pent up and ready, lusting, ready lusting. 

We are not there yet, folks.  

There are ends to tie up before we unfurl and start those raised beds in the yard.  (I can't stop thinking about buying seeds orstarting them though).

My windows are open sometimes to let the air and the light in.  To start to move the blood around, to begin to stir the winter cobwebs. The earliest signs of spring are emerging all around us (a game my daughter and I play each seasonal shift is to spot these changes).

But, yet, it is not quite time to transition. 

About that unfinished business... What's yours? (Click to Tweet).

So, I hunker down and before spring comes I write a March list. I call it:  "I Still Have To"

I Still Have To:

• Make one more soup that requires my care, attention and stirring.  That nourishes me deeply, like only soup in winter can.
• Sit in front of my friend's fireplace and listen to it crackle and have to move away because my skin feels taught with the heat of it.
• Bring out the shoe polish and the wax to clean and buff my many pairs of brown boots. Taking care.
• Finish my taxes and write the checks and move the files to the basement. 
• Sew the batting down on the quilt I began when I was in early labor with my son and it was August.

Only then can I step, wholly, into the transition of spring.  I want to emerge.  But before I move on, there's some completion to be done.

Go, finish what you started before beginning anew.