The month of May brings some beloved annual celebrations including the West Seattle Garage Sale, Mother's Day, and Mr. Fleece's birthday. This year we also celebrated Mimi's birthday with her in Connecticut, while we were in town for Bill's Celebration of Life. It was such a good trip, filled with cousin time, extended family, and meeting some of the Wrights' oldest and dearest friends. <3
While reflecting on Bill's life and looking through photos from different decades, I've been struck by how life is made up of both milestone moments (graduations! weddings!) and completely ordinary ones (noodles and butter for dinner again!). Having kids, those categories seem to both sharpen and overlap every year. It’s lovely when ordinary things suddenly feel like the most special ones.
We certainly had our mix of mundane and meaningful moments this May. Here are some of the highlights:
- Finding so many treasures at the garage sale
- Biking along Myrtle Edwards for Mother's Day
- Releasing salmon into the creek as part of the twins' preschool activities (can you get more PNW than this!?)
- Jumping into Holly Pond for the last time
- Watching our kids learn Monopoly Deal
- Having all the cousins in matching flag shirts for the Memorial Day parade
- Drinking floats to celebrate Mr. Fleece's 36th birthday
- Taking the kids to their first Mariners Game
- Going to Home Depot as a family so we could finish installing our little free library(!!)
- Giving EDW "cheerleader hair" (i.e. French braids into a bow)
- Taking CCW to the Pioneer Square Art Walk
I hope I never grow tired of eating popsicles on the porch or hearing about axolotls :)
-SJW
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