There is no where else to be and nothing else to do other than to be in this very moment right here. This is a mama’s medicine. The reward for long days and tough nights. My two blessings sleeping peacefully on me for an afternoon nap. Time can stop now.

Ahh Costa Rica! We start looking into planning a 3 month travel trip and then you give us a weekend like this and I don’t know how we can bring ourselves to leave! It was about 2 weeks of hardly any rain and intense heat and then the rain came and the air cooled and this heavenly weekend occurred. Finding treasure under the sea with goggles, picking apples (at least they looked apple like but def not edible) and putting them in an empty coconut shell, swinging like pole vaulters with a bamboo stick, Rusty chasing butterflies, two sun kissed wiped out kiddos, burying the found treasure and marking it with an X, leaf bugs to examine, massive trees to climb, huge over hanging leaves that create little people tree houses, blue skies, warm clear water, and white fluffy clouds. Ugh, you make these fickle parents decisions even more challenging.

This week we started learning the letter A and words that start with A. I plan to do this weekly until we get to Z. Sophie can now write her letter A and knows some words (both spanish and english) that start with A. Let’s see if we can keep this up. Her favorite part is the scavenger hunt and her check list of course.