This has really been a beautiful vacation. Josh and I have both totally slooowwwed down. And, I’ve been taking good advantage of the gorj natural setting here to contemplate, exercise and, as discussed at Cheaty Kitchen yesterday, EAT WELL! Yay!


Doing LOTS of yoga…with RASCAL…. I love my pink mat. Seriously. I have about five yoga mats of all different colours. This one’s my fave. This one is home….

I feel really great. A little hungry (for lack of whole food in the kitchen), but better than I’ve felt in a long time physically and emotionally. Great to have another pair of hands to help me with the kids so I can have some space and time to recupe, relax and re-centre. Awesome. And, great to have a pool to jump into to swim my ARSE off (literally). Only problem with swimming, for me, is that I ALWAYS have to stop to save the drowning bugs…. I can’t swim peacefully knowing that some creature right next to me is fighting for its life — insect or FROG or whatever….

Ribbit….

Other than swimming, I’ve been walking the country road a lot. Check how LOVERLY….


Butterflies! There are tons here. Mostly monarchs. Beautiful monarch butterflies. Monkey’s obsessed with “princesses, fairies and butterflies,” ahem. So, this pic is for her — even though poor beautiful monarch looks more like a moth thanks to my brillers pic-taking!

Other than walking gorj country road, we’ve been occupying ourselves with crafts….


PIPE-CLEANER DAY…. Monkey made this for me. Isn’t it GORJ??

Sight-seeing (these are classic pics of Rascal)….

Floating (swimming lessons are reeeeeeeally paying off, as you can see…erg blerg beglerg)……


She’s floating in her baby brother’s floatie. HE, on the other hand, is a total FISH in the water!

Connecting with cows RIGHT in the backyard….


Love…. We definitely shared a moment together, me and “Cowy”…. Beautiful, beautiful animal….

So, that’s it! Tomorrow, we’re supposed to go to a fair. With rides. Those rides that they rent. Rent-a-rides. That I would NEVER go on. I’m KIND of a little bit hoping it gets rained out. But, also kind of not — because it’s, like, the biggest event of the year for the peeps here…. And, because the Monkey’s really looking forward to the merry-go-round….

Home on Sunday…. Missing Minden BE-YOND. Can’t even tell you. They REALLY need a pet over here. I mean, cows and frogs are awesome and everything? But, you can’t go to bed with ‘em…. And, they don’t make the skin of your nose raw with their KISSES…!

OH! GARSH! WAH! MISS!

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