Been awhile!

This always happens...I try to keep up with a blog regularly, yet I fail again. I guess it could be worse. I am writing now, right?

In short, once I have a project, it consumes me. I get completely obsessive, especially if the project has anything to do with making something look nice or if it involves travel. In this case, it involved both. Getting our house in working order and looking good after shifting nearly every piece of furniture in it into another room while also baby-proofing it has been quite an undertaking and we're still not finished. We also just returned from a trip to Maine with Jhonen, the first trip I've taken since Ben and I went to Japan and the first trip we've ever taken with Jho, so planning and executing that trip has taken up every other brain cell I had to offer.

Beautifying and organizing the house has been really fun and reminds me how much I like home decorating (although I wish money were not an issue because my eye's desires do not match our cash flow). Going on the trip reminds me just how darn much I adore traveling! And sometimes I think that planning for the trip and planning for the home remodels is even more fun than the trip or the remodels themselves! I also had to remind myself that some plans go the way I, well, plan...and some don't. I got a Maine travel guide from the library and scoured every Maine tourist site on the internet and made our itinerary (google docs are great!). I knew I wanted to pick blueberries, eat seafood (that one was for Ben), see a whale or a puffin or both, go to a lighthouse, and hike. Some of those came to fruition and some didn't. Some did and they were better than expected and some did and they were worse. But as Ben reminded me, how could I know? And good job for coming up with stuff to try! So after Jhonen's first successful airplane flights, a gorgeous lighthouse, lots of seafood meals, a cute puffin shirt for Jho (sans actual puffin sighting), wonderful quarts of hand-picked blueberries, a gorgeous hike in Hobbitland and a less successful hike in creepy bum-forest, some great art in Portland, fun with Chris, his family, Leslie, her family, Melanie, Nate, and others, some peaceful, beautiful scenery, a boat ride, some wildlife (an owl, a dog-bear, a porcupine, some sheep, and Sadie the Springer Spaniel), I can definitely call this trip a fun and memorable success story.

Beautifying our bedroom is a whole other story entirely...