A blog about being a full time working mother, juggling home, family and career, exploring self, making the most of this one life we're given.
This weekend was rather warm in the south land. I heard that 26 heat records were broken this weekend around the south land. I drove from LA to OC Saturday morning to my parent's house, and there seemed an unusual number of vehicles on the road for that time of day. I think people were getting up and out early and heading to the beach. It was great beach weather. We made it wading pool weather. KJ's cousins came over and helped with the splashing
Happy Friday. It is supposed to be very hot here this weekend. The weather feels a bit bi-polar lately, cold and rainy one week, 90 degrees and sunny the next. Doesn't make for easy closet organization. We don't have air conditioning in our apartment, and while we live close enough to the coast that the temperatures don't usually reach the max predictions, it can still get uncomfortably warm, especially when you're chasing/carrying a toddler around. We'll be going to Orange County to visit my parents in their air conditioned house.
One of the most unexpectedly hard parts for us in preparing for our son's arrival was picking a name. Last name was easy. After a little discussion, middle name was chosen (my father's name.) But our son didn't have his first name until 2 hours after he was born. I think I viewed literally every boy baby name website in existence.
Happy Friday - I hope you have something fun/memorable/adventurous planned for the weekend. They are predicting that beautiful, 70+ degree, sunny weather that makes all the east coasters who are freezing right now want to pick up and move west. I plan to get out with the little dude and enjoy it (and him) as much as possible.
The shifting weather (though I hope we still have more rain to come, we need it. April showers, right?) has me thinking about updating my wardrobe.
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I’m on a mission to simplify. Having a baby definitely complicated life, but babies just do that. It's life. But the rest of life around the baby can be simpler than it is. While we can’t control the world outside our homes, we have control of what’s in our homes, and if that space is a mess, then life feels a mess. We live in a materialistic society (and Los Angeles is a particularly materialistic city), and I confess that my household has too much material stuff (if we had a bigger house, I may not say the same thing about my current volume, so it’s a good thing at this point we have a small space.)
A full time working mom, on this adventure we call life, teaching myself (and YOU) how to make your space one you love with affordable DIYs.
