Hello everyone!! I hope you are all doing well. I feel like the past few weeks or so have been set at whirlwind, we have just been so busy. Good busy though.

First, I have been keeping up with going to yoga on Tuesdays with my friend Kelly. This is something I had wanted to get back to for years, and like a lot of adults these days, I just never prioritized time for me. It always feels like we have all kinds of responsibilities and obligations, that it is easy to tell ourselves that we should stay home and finish the laundry, or the dishes or any myriad things that pop up on the daily. It’s hard sometimes to just say, nope, I am going, I am doing this, my body needs this, my mind needs this, etc. To let ourselves stop for a minute. With that being said, I am going to have to find a new place for six weeks while Wyatt is in Little League. Lol. Because isn’t that how it happens? But I am going to make myself keep doing it, despite the hitch in my plans.

I know that Deb from Readerbuzz mentioned how hard it is to find an instructor whose flow resonates with you, especially if you had a teacher you loved and then they stopped teaching. I was lucky that my new instructor has a style much like my old one, from years ago. And I really like the “studio” space she is using, which I have mentioned before. It is the third floor of an old building, that was first a Masonic Lodge and is now an arts center. The room is creaky, old, vast, and she turns the lights down so it is blissfully dim.

Speaking of Little League, Wyatt starts next week! We are all super excited. We took him out on Saturday to get his glove, and he was all smiles!

On Saturday, we also went out for dinner, at an Alpine inspired restaurant in Detroit called Alpino. We had a blast and ate so much food. You can read more about it on my post about Heidi, but I am going to share the photos here again.

Wyatt and I also had a zoo day with our friends S. and Z.! It was a beautiful day and the zoo was very busy! We all had so much fun just being outside, and we saw the baby gorilla and the baby lion cubs! I wanted to go play with them like they were giant kittens but that would probably be a very bad idea.

Then Tuesday and Wednesday I was my own whirlwind. I had yoga Tuesday, and afterward visited my mom, which is my routine. Billy then surprised me by telling me that he had taken Wednesday off so that he and I could each have four hours of “me” time. I thought this was genius and while I missed my guys, it was also soooo nice to have all that time to just do whatever! I ended up meeting a friend for coffee in the early a.m., then going off to the thrifts to see if I could find any treasures. I ended up finding a huge stack of books, some of which are going on my Pango, that were .60 each! I also found the cutest little whimsical teapot that I cleaned up and stuck on my desk. I absolutely love it. I then headed off to TJ Maxx, because they have journals and stationary sometimes so I thought I would see what they had. However, I fell into their beauty products section instead. I picked up the cutest little manicure set in its own little cat carrying case, a set of K beauty face masks, and a bar of soap that is citrus scented (of course). Billy is in love with the soap, weirdly, so I going back to grab a few more bars.

When I got home with my treasures, I took Wyatt out for ice cream which made him happy. I figured he needed a treat as well. Then, to top it all off, I met my cousin and brother for coffee that night and didn’t get home until an hour later than I had anticipated. But, that happens and we were all cracking up and laughing until we cried. It was a good time.

However, now I am ready for a few slow days to balance out all of this fun!! Not to mention, all that laundry is still waiting for me…

And now some random photos from my camera roll!

I hope that whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile!