lately i’ve caught myself daydreaming…i daydream when my son is playing in the sunroom with. his play-doh and i’m sitting on the couch catching up on emails, i daydream when i’m cooking dinner, i daydream when i’m driving. it never ends! my daydreams lately are a little different than they were a few months ago….

through a few crazy life changes in the past few months, my husband and i have decided to simplify things. it’s not that things were so crazy difficult for us but that we were tired. tired of the constant struggle to keep up. our schedule was packed. we had no time to just sit and relax together. when my son would ask to go to the park, we couldn’t just drop everything and go swing. i didn’t notice it at first…but we were slowly making ourselves too busy to be a family.

during the day, i was really good about putting work away when walker was awake. we would spend time together. but when clint got home from work, it was a little easier for us to just go our separate ways. he would go out to the barn to work or in the pasture. i would stay inside and answer emails or sit on the back porch and work on my bridal guide.

i never thought that at the age of 27 i would have to learn to slow down time. so the past couple of days my husband and i have worked on simplifying our life. but what does that look like?

it’s not a lot different really…we have had to learn to time manage. we’ve had to learn to manage our relationships. those relationships that were not 100% on each side, we’ve had to cut ties with. those trips to the store for meaningless items like a donut or some ice cream…they’re gone. if we don’t get it on our grocery haul, oh well. we’ve been grilling a lot more, because it’s simpler to have a meat and a side rather than a 3 course dinner every night. we’re less likely to say, “let’s just go grab something…”

i’ve started laying a blanket out in the yard while my son runs around and gets all of his energy out. we bought him a new sprinkler and boy oh boy has that been a treat!!!

we’re trying to slow down our lives so we can enjoy every moment with our little guy, before he’s grown and packing a car for college…or a rodeo.

these past couple of slow days have been amazing and i wouldn’t trade them for anything!!!

film: portra 400

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