In This Moment

On my mind today...

My head is somewhere up in the cloudless sky today. Oh, sure I should do some dishes. Maybe organize that pile on my desk. But is it so terrible that I would rather put on a cute dress and a pair of fancy shoes, and just go sit out in my backyard and dream?

I might just forego this nonsense of folding laundry and give into those daydreams about...

The plants I want to fill my new garden beds with (yes, we have garden beds this year!)...
What color I should paint my bathroom...
What to do for a certain special someone's 30th birthday (no, not mine)...
What do with all of this broken concrete all over my yard. Make more garden beds? Make a terraced herb garden?....
How to make that quilt out of those left-over swaddle blankets...
Actually allow myself to pause on those tender thoughts about the people whom I love...
And what really do I want to accomplish in this life...

Maybe I just will go give myself 10 minutes on those back steps...the laundry can wait.

Solo Aqui:::Making Cards

 I have a belated birthday to send a little well-wishing too, and a much needed note needs to be sent to my lovely pen-pal.

I was having fun drawing using colored pencils and watercolor paper. I had forgotten how relaxing drawing can be! Which card do you think I should send to my sister-in-law for her birthday, and which should I send to my pen pal?

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Tough decision! What have you been working on lately?

Solo Aqui::::Only Here

My Wednesday ritual of posting a "Daily Rhythm" is going to morph a little, as any good idea should, right?  I have loved sharing with your some of our rhythms in our life for the past few weeks.

Through the process I have found that there are just some things that we do that don't fit into everyone of my 24 hour days, but happen in an irregularity that some how forms a pattern over time. Life is so complex in it's simplicity.

So, instead I am going to share our "Solo Aqui" moments, or our "Only Here." I hope to share things that we are doing right now...in this moment....only here, solo aqui.

Only Here:::Solo Aqui, we are  speaking Spanish. No one in my family is fluent, however I have at least a functional amount of  Spanish language knowledge.

Recently a good friend mentioned that no matter how much you know of a language just sharing those bits and pieces you do know with your children can make a world of difference in their language skills, studies, and growth for their entire lives.

That message struck me and was sort of an a-ha moment. It doesn't matter that I am not fluent in any other language but English. What matters is I DO know the colors, numbers, phrases, and many vocabulary words in Spanish that I could share with my son. AND that is exactly what  I have been doing.

Now when we talk about colors I share not only the Engish version but the Spanish too. When counting I make sure to also count in Spanish. When I talk about food I make sure to call cetain foods I know by their Spanish names too.  It's a little bit of an adjustment but it truly is a simple gift I can pass along to my son.


What are you doing right now, only here, solo aqui in your life?