taking stock // 002

making: a [mental] list of things for our upcoming race, trips that are on the calendar, etc 

eating: with our community group tonight 

drinking: recovery drinks (post running)  - BCAAs & NUUN (all new to me)  

reading: nothing. but i'm excited about Mikey's birthday "read" 

listening: to the sweetest little gulps from my nursling  
texting: our Palmetto 200 team 

watching: The Royal House of Windsor

bookmarking: ideas for Traction Co.
wanting: dessert 

looking: forward to dancing with my Mikey at next weekend's wedding(!)

enjoying: the rhythm we've created as a family of six 
waiting: for our 2nd batch of Turkish rugs to come in 

wondering: if our flights for our trip in June will be straightened out 

loving: our new king bed 
hoping: that Oscar sleeps tonight 

marveling: at how another year is already marching on 

needing: to wrap up birthday shopping 

wearing:  running clothes & a baby on my hip 

smelling: Cashmere Lavender [the barn at post oak] 
noticing: the daffodils, speaking to my soul 

knowing: that we should go to bed (but we won't) 

laughing: at Ezra. daily. hourly. 

thinking: about upcoming birthday celebrations & next weekend's wedding

daydreaming: about a(nother) summer on the road

wishing: and hoping and dreaming 

feeling: immense gratitude for this season we're in
celebrating: march! birthdays for mikey and ez

twenty seventeen in review

For some reason it's taken me a while to sort through all of last year -- I think because it was a particularly rich, restful year full of adventure and restoration for our family.

We celebrated big things. Mikey turned thirty. We traveled. To Puerto Rico in the spring. Then, five weeks of summer in the car with our people, up the entire East Coast, into Canada and home again.  New York. The South Carolina coast. Kansas City. We added sweet baby Oscar (our littlest arrow). We left the job that Mike had worked since college - to stretch and grow ourselves. To rest. To pursue things all our own. To adventure.

We worked hard to have last year and as I think back on it, I know what a sweet gift twenty seventeen was (and still is) to our family. I don't take a single minute of it for granted either. I also know that here in the moment, I can't fully wrap my mind around what last year was for us. I'm sure in the coming months and years tiny blessings and memories will unfold and reveal even more what an utterly magical time it was.

My heart bursts with gratitude and excitement, separately and all at once. We're already two months into this new year, about to open the door and step into the third. We've found a new rhythm as a family of six (!), booked trips to here and there (with two new passports on the way), started Traction Co. Mercantile, are training for a race come end of March, and are dreaming of a big anniversary trip in the fall.

To dreaming, traveling, adventuring, pursuing, resting and growing in this coming year. Cheers! 

martin band of brothers | february 2018

Amos at 5: so much like your daddy, a perfectionist, silly, insanely smart. 

 Solomon: long blonde hair, sleepy dog in tow, (not reflected) super chill. 

Ezra: you're a hilarious, tough, chatty firecracker! 

Oscar: you're content, belly laughing & win the best sleeper award. 

Our lives are so much more full because of you boys!

month three | oscar fox

Oscar, you sweet child, you. You are the calm in our chaos right now.

Things mama's loving about you right now:

how you play with my shirt when you nurse

your belly laugh when i tickle you

your widows peak ... just like mine

those puffy little lips 

watching you watch your big brothers

snuggling you against my chest before i rock Ez for bed 

listening to you talk 

I love you to the moon and back, Oski. Keep growing big and strong for us...you've got quite the crew to keep up with! 

weekly portrait | week 5

from feb. 3