school has started and we’re working our way through a whole new schedule. we walk to school (0.75 miles, which means that i can clock 3 miles of “exercise” just from the school drop off/pick up routine every day), and to be there exactly 15 minutes early (which is “just on time” in my mind) we need to leave the house no later than 7:50am (preferably 7:45, just in case we have to make an emergency potty-stop). emma wakes up every day in a spritely chipper mood, which is thankfully fairly contagious. i’m adjusting pretty well considering my internal clock has heretofore preferred a lifetime of late-late nights and not-early mornings.

the past week has been an excruciatingly slow process of shortened school days and early pick-ups as they ease the kids in to the full-day schedule, and i’ve been feeling a little bit “on hold” until i get to claim the full 6 hours for my own needs, purposes and decadent whims. almost there, and i’m feeling “nest-y” and organization-obsessed just in time.

in my belly is really quite large and round news, i’ve started having crazy-vivid pregnancy dreams (last night i was a csi specializing in photos, and all the details i remember from the dream were analyzing body-language in various pictures). also, my emotional reactions are admittedly out of proportion to whatever is really going on (there have been tears. many) and even as my rational mind says “it’s just a pregnant thing!”, i’m pretty powerless to stop it.

really, though, everything is moving along just as it should. so far so good, anyway.
hope you’re well, too. xoxo

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ps: i have dozens upon dozens pictures to sort and post from our indiana travels soon. stay tuned if you’re into that sort of thing.