Home

We moved in to “home” almost a week ago. We don’t have much of our stuff yet, as it’s all being shipped over from California. So it didn’t take us long to get what we do have in here. It has been pretty wonderful putting things away knowing that we are here to stay. I haven’t done that in quite a long time and it feels so right and natural. A few days after we had moved in, I explained to Spencer how I felt:

“Ya know how it feels to go to a yoga class with a good teacher after weeks of not doing any yoga? And you walk out thinking and saying things like ‘oh! So this is what it feels like to be balanced, aligned, graceful and grounded!’ or ‘I feel like my equilibrium is back!’ or ‘I feel like I can think again.’  Well, this is how I feel. I feel like it’s taken me 4 days in this house…of sitting on the floor with the kids, and walking the 1.5 acres, and staring out the windows, and walking the neighborhood, and getting into a daily rhythm with the kids and the house, and breathing in the trade winds that so nicely come into greet us through the big windows, and catching the sliver of a sunset from the kitchen, and putting things into the refrigerator, and organizing the pantries… it’s taken the last few days of nesting here to let it all sink in. And now I feel like I just walked out of a really good yoga class. Grounded, centered. Aligned in mind, body, soul. One with my breath. A natural, whole body breath. Happy on a cellular level. Balanced & graceful. The lines on my forehead relaxed (even if just in my mind:). And my shoulders went back and down (even if just in my mind). I think my butt got tighter too!:))”

He was nodding his head the whole time, as he arranged books on a bookshelf. And the kids were playing together in the screened in lanai.

Yes. Home.