Spring Break - 2016

Spring Break has been lovely this year. I have enjoyed 'life' so much these last few days. Not that I don't enjoy my life anyway; it has it's downsides and it's hard times, certainly. But I really am thankful for so many things, thankful for so much of circumstance that makes up the situation I exist in.

I think I was needing this break though. A change of scenery, change of pace. Something 'different' from what has become my 'everyday'.

We were out of school Good Friday as well, so you might say VRCA is getting almost a week-and-a-half Spring Break!

I have mostly been trying to chisel away at my running 'To Do' list. Projects that need to be finished so I can return the pattern I borrowed, new project ideas to try out, yard work during the not-raining days (oh glory!), a dress that needed altering, housecleaning (my whole family's been sick over the last couple of weeks, so there was some major catch-up left from that), cooking (an inconvenient necessity), attention to neglected journaling, reading, laundry, letter writing (have yet to tackle that one), to name a few. It's been an almost-perfect mix of work and play.

Photography, shamefully, has moved nearly to the back burner lately... I've taken a very few pictures that weren't school or work related in the last couple of months (I did have my first paid senior session a few weeks ago - super exciting!). Looking at the lifestyle photography of a friend was how I caught the photography bug in the first place - I'm working on getting back in the habit of picking up the camera again just to work on the art of capturing life.

So thankful for the rest and accomplishment that this break has given me. And I still have two-and-a-half days left!