What I’m thankful going into this week:
1. To be back home. Traveling with a toddler is exhausting at best and sometimes it’s downright unpleasant, and anyway, I thrive in a routine. Call me boring. Call me inflexible. Just don’t call me on the phone because I haven’t planned for it and I’ll have a panic attack. We had a good time in San Diego but I’m happy we’ll be home for a while. Sometimes, but especially with a child, I wonder if the best part of travel is when it’s looming on the horizon, a thing in the future to look forward to. And I think that’s okay. We need things to look forward to.
2. Seattle tap water. It’s legitimately good. Whenever we go somewhere else we miss it.
3. That we swapped our gas stove for electric before B was born. That little shit turned on a gas burner not once but twice at our airbnb. There’s no doubt in my mind that we’d all be dead if we still had a gas stove in the house.
4. That yesterday’s swim class went well. We started B in swim when he was just shy of two years old and he loved it. But then he had a bad experience at a splash pad and spent six months deathly afraid of water. Fortunately we’ve made it through that, but we still weren’t sure how swim would go this time around. He loved it!
5. Farmers markets start up again this week. We really love community festivals, and the return of the farmer’s market in particular feels a little bit like life returning after another winter that feels like it will never end.
Denise Resting 
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