My Beach Boy

All he knows is going to the beach most days. This week it has been raining lots, but that doesn't stop Max from bringing us his beach toys and sunscreen and saying "beeeeeech beeeeeech beeeeeech." This morning he played with all of his toys and I am pretty sure was pretending he was at the beach even though it's raining and cold.

In other news, our lives have changed very quickly and very dramatically. I am officially a working mom and I LOVE IT!! Sam will end his job that has been a job that we needed, but very hard for many different reasons. He will get to pursue photography more seriously again and not have to endure a bad work environment. I work 2 minutes from home at a very cute little restaurant right down the road. Sam and Max walk me to work at 6pm and then I am there until around midnight. If you know me well you know that by midnight I will have gone through three sleep/dream cycles on a typical night. Ironically, I am doing fine. It might help that I nap when Max does and I have snuck in an occasional Starbucks around 4 when I am exhausted. I think more than anything I am loving this new role. I LOVE being Max's mom and Sam's wife, but I also love having many things to accomplish. I just wasn't wired to be a stay at home mom. I didn't go into this mom thing with great passion or conviction either way, but now seeing that I am a better wife and mom doing this job confirms what I had a sneaking suspicion about...I LOVE being a working mom. For me and Sam it is perfect. I still get all day (which with summer coming is a very cool blessing of going back to work) Max sees me and Sam working as a team. It has been amazing to see the team component go up dramatically the last week and see how well we work together and love and serve each other. After a long year of learning, change, growing and an occasional fight or two (or more but who's counting :) I see the fruit of commitment, love, and service to each other and our family.