A Rambling Spring Break Friday

Whats up, good morning, comfortable Friday!

It’s been a a bizarre week round right here. It’s spring break so we haven’t had any of our recurrently scheduled actions. In a manner, that’s been very nice. We had a household film night time, frolicked with pals from our outdated city that stopped by for a bit, the ladies and I went procuring (H received this gown and this shirt and each are so cute on her), and we hit a bucket of balls collectively at a driving vary for the primary time. Our kind left loads to be desired however we had enjoyable!

Then again, I’m undecided if it was our lack of enforced construction, the pollen, or my hormones, however I’ve had some fairly constant mind fog all week lengthy. On the surface I believe (hope) that I seem like I’m functioning as regular however I really feel like I’ve mentally been trudging by means of mud.

I additionally had a kind of moments of actually lacking my dad. It’s one thing I notice I don’t actually ever speak about- the seemingly unprovoked event of instantly wishing deeply that I might simply speak to him for 5 minutes whereas tears nicely up in my eyes.

I shared that, together with the ball in a field perspective of grief, on Instagram after which proceeded to ugly cry my manner by means of the responses that had been a mixture of comradery on this common human expertise of grief and loving responses remembering issues I shared about my dad and the way he used to all the time depart messages on all my weblog posts.

Between the mind fog and the feelings, I, after all, blame hormones. However the enjoyable factor about 42 is that do I blame the place I’m at in my cycle (becoming) or do I blame perimenopause? I simply acquired the copy of The New Menopause that I hope will assist me determine it out. Can I inform you how humbling it’s to purchase a guide with the phrase menopause in it? Aren’t I nonetheless 20-something years outdated?

I had a number of moments of productiveness. I put collectively my Tween Woman Easter Picks and Teen Woman Easter Picks lists. I actually get pleasure from doing this a lot as a result of I mainly knock out that job for my very own Easter Bunny whereas hopefully creating one thing useful. I didn’t get round to creating graphics although (that takes longer than one may suppose), however wished to go forward and share them as a result of Easter is simply a pair weeks away (loopy).

I additionally washed sheets, accomplished rooster chores, and ordered pictures for my frames, which took over an hour as a result of I ended up scrolling by means of footage with H of her toddler days. She was so cute. Sniff.

Hormones, is that you simply? Time to start out studying my guide…

I’m wanting ahead to this weekend, which ought to maintain some enjoyable time with pals, loads of sunshine, and naturally some basketball watching!

We’re so into March Insanity. Is that one thing you get pleasure from? All of us crammed out brackets (mine isn’t doing so nicely in the meanwhile) after which had each ChatGPT and Grok fill one out too, only for enjoyable. David has been telling me he’s discovering Grok to be superior in his use, so we determined to place them to the actual take a look at… basketball predictions!

Thanks for stopping by at this time and I hope you may have a extremely fantastic weekend. I’ll be again subsequent week with one thing extra substantial to share than a rambling monologue. See you then! 🙂