may has been feeling extra b-u-s-y this year. there's been baseball, softball, intermural sports and music lessons, kids' end of the year school stuff, my part time job, art making, attempts at art promotion, self doubt, angst, worries about the ecomony, paperwork, attempts at involved and non-sucky parenting, planting + gardening, cleaning, purging, puttering. it can make a gal feel like she has a whirlwind life, when in reality it's probably more of, well, a kind of tailspin. i've been feeling the need to simplify in every area of my life, from our crazy daily routines, to the blogs i read, to friendships, my work life and everything in between. i want to get away from feeling so overstimulated all the time, and from that sort of hollow, jittery feeling that seems to come from it. we're going away this weekend to the north woods - where there is no power, phone or internet, so that always helps. i'm bringing some sketchbooks, pens, a good book, some hiking boots and plenty o'bug dope. i hope you have a wonderful long weekend yourself.
ps:
i made gluten-free girls' pickled veggies. i reduced the sugar a bit and threw in some other stuff like green beans. they were great. (we are totally *not* gluten-free, but i sometimes wonder if we should be less gluten-y than we are. i like her blog a lot.)
i have slowly been watching big love over the past several weeks. i think it is one of the best series i have ever seen. (i am always late to these things because we don't have cable.) you're probably thinking duh, i knew that already. but anyway, it's so so good.
