blogging fail

where we've been.

i'm behind.  i'll be posting here and backdating-so if you are really desperate to read about christmas, january, february, our trip to disneyworld and some outings in october (ha! yeah, i'm that bad) feel free to hit up our archives.

because it's better to be grateful that i can get around the city than being frustrated with how i get around the city

 let me just jump into today.  this week.  after that blip in the weather (oh new york, you trickster you), we're back to the cold.  coats, hats, gloves.  they're all back on.  our apartment has felt smaller and smaller over the last few months.  we have TOO much stuff.  but i think when you squish 4 people into a one bedroom apartment, it's just part of the deal.  and if two of those people are growing out of their entire wardrobe every 6 months...well.  you can imagine how quickly 'stuff' begins to accumulate.  with all this stuff, i have thought that we need a bigger place.  and a change. so, i've been searching for new apartments, new cities, and a new place every free moment i have the last few months.  the west, the suburbs, fancy high rises.  i've looked at it all.  but sitting down here and writing, i think it's just my perspective that needs a change.  i need more gratitude in my life.  gratitude to have my family-gratitude to live in a place with so many opportunities-gratitude for branden's job-gratitude for the people who read this blog (hi allie! hi jill!).  because if i really wrapped my head around how good we have it-then the weather wouldn't be such pain.  this apartment wouldn't be so small. and hugo asking for a cup of water for the upteenth time when i'm putting him to bed won't be such a bother.  because i'll realize how much i have and how little time i'll have it.

so here's to being grateful.  life can be pretty hard sometimes-but goodness, what opportunities and beauty hide in the work we do.