hi.
the sun came out this afternoon.
it's not that it's been so completely grey here, but today, i just really needed some sun.
i needed to go out in the sun.

tim came home in the afternoon and we left the kids and walked around the neighborhood. we looked at houses and things we hadn't really noticed before. we did not talk about the kids. he held my hand.

i don't know if i've mentioned it before (ahem), but we have six girls in our family. three of them are thirteen. one of them is four. all of them are together everyday. and all of them have incredibly strong and distinct personalities.

to say that we are outnumbered would be fair. exasperated. exhausted. consumed. you get the picture.

so it's interesting to me how much a walk around the neighborhood with tim, a little afternoon sunshine, a few beautiful details that make me stop and look closer at something...can really make all the difference in my day. can change the word scrolling through my head from overwhelmed to abundance.

some days you just need to go out in a little afternoon sunshine.

and,
i hear birds in the morning, now. do you?

thanks for reading.
tt