you know, i can remember sooo many times as a teenager when i just found myself suffocated by walls, needing air and space for all my acres of thoughts and emotions… and i would just take off. start walking! or hop in the golf cart. drive down to the river. the train tracks. maybe bring a journal, or maybe cry on the shoulder of my big horsey boy. it wasn’t dramatic, it was healthy. it always brought me back to center. it was always exactly what i needed. 🙂 well was… and still is! no matter what’s going on, i just love a chance to feel like i’m escaping into the calm of the earth for a few minutes… when really i’m hardly going far!!
[so, let me just tell you… college dorm life was. not. for. me. i had a blast, but. talk about suffocation! whose idea was it to make budding young adults live like that?!?]
anyway, i love making a point of these same sorts of mini escapes [no emotional crisis needed!] with the little bunners. i want them to always be able to turn to nature to find peace! it’s cheaper than retail therapy. 😉 and i have definitely found myself needing to just stop and run away from it all lately, so while rocco was sleeping earlier this week at the farm, maddalena and i went out to pick some wildflowers and make some little bouquets. she always call them something like, “ko-bays!” <3
…i have so much fun with that girl! and oh, i just absolutely adore her little nature princess spirit. i still can’t believe she’s 4. she’s been the best little partner these last 4 years! i have also completely met my match in so many ways. 😉
later on, our little rascal muffin woke up, the afternoon grew long and late, mom did her golden hour, back yard search for passionfruit vines…
…and we went home refreshed! <3
you know, i could run myself ragged with the amount of *adulting* there is to do every second of every hour of every day for the rest of my life. i could! and it’s completely my tendency. so, while i want structure and efficiency, not only for functionality’s sake but also as a model for my kiddies… i also don’t want to be the kind of mom or wife or brittany that never stops to just be. that’s important, too.
[and when i say be… i don’t mean be with a tv or be with your scrolling iphone thumb.]
[but iphones for photos, totally acceptable. documentation, always!]
[…and if you can involve flowers, that’s even better!]
[aaaand the song i sing every time we’re among the wildflowers, ha!]
Maddalena and Rocco's great, great grandmother Ellin (Sides) knew the names of every wildflower. Long after I was raising my own family, she and my niece used to go into the woods often, searching and naming. I sometimes wonder if she didn't make one or two names up…
I sense a theme here lately. Life is getting away from us both and it's important to focus on the little things and the nows. The things memories are made of. And also never cut her hair it is amazing.
I was so the same as a kid. Just had to get out! If only for a walk.
ps! these are all so beautiful!!!