Happy

March 09, 2014

Happy

This weekend has been pretty awesome.

This morning a local farm was having a pancake breakfast to celebrate the maple sugaring season. We had some yummy pancakes with real maple syrup and got to tour the farm, see some brand-new baby goats and lambs, and watch the maple sap being boiled.

C has been extremely camera shy lately. Whenever I ask her to say cheese I'm always met with a grumpy "No." This picture makes me chuckle because of the juxtaposition between grumpy little C and the extreme happiness of the guy on the poster about ending world hunger right behind her.

Saturday was my last day with my youth orchestra. It was bittersweet saying goodbye to those kids, because I love them a lot. It also feels a bit weird that I'm giving up my last job working away from home-- a very small part of me wants to hang on to that "professional" feeling and the excuse to get myself showered at least once a week. But all of those feelings are overwhelmed every time I think about the fact that I don't have to drive to my usual Monday rehearsal tomorrow. Or the next week. Or the week after that. (Remember that it's an hour each way for me to get there and back.) I'm just going to have worlds of time and things will feel so much better. That may be the happiest feeling of this weekend for me.

I worked on my online class for most of Saturday morning and then drove straight to orchestra rehearsal, so M had the girls all day long. Man, I tell ya... that guy makes my job look easy. When I got home after 5 PM he had whipped up a clam chowder for dinner and cookies for dessert. The girls were calm, chattering, bubbling over to tell me about their fun day, and just... well... happy. I'm so thankful that they have their Daddy, who is such a bright, positive influence and source of strength for them. Hopefully now that Mama is a bit less stressed, I can be more like him.

I was so happy eating lunch with them today after a fun morning at the farm, I snapped these pics: