Getting my groove back: Or just really good weather?

 Last night I baked a loaf of bread. Not a fancy sourdough or anything cool like that. Just a simple white loaf in my bread machine. This morning I got up at 5am, so excited to have a slice of fresh toast with my egg before going to work...and It hadn't worked. Somehow the bread machine had not clipped together how it should so the little spatular inside hadn't mixed anything. It was a literal hot mess. 
But it didn't bother me. I just had my breakfast with a different bread and went off to work. When I came home I scraped the gooey mass into the compost and tried again.
Now this may not seem like a very note-worthy story, but I am a mother of a toddler and as of 17 weeks ago, pregnant with another little one. So as my other Mumma's know sometimes when you're really looking forward to something it can screw up your whole day. But it just didn't. 

Over the past three months I have been exhausted, like laying on the couch unable to move kind of exhausted. Just in the past few weeks since Christmas I have started to feel like my old self again. The Second Trimester of pregnancy has always been my favourite. Your hair looks great, your skin is dewy and glowy, and you actually have the energy to do your normal tasks while also looking super cute with a little growing bump! When you compare it to the first trimester, I mean you can hardly compare the two. You are green tinted from being nauseous 24/7 and you are bloated to high heaven with a greasy bun because you can muster the energy to hop in the shower for some self care in-between caring for the toddler and getting enough work done so your head is above water. 
I literally went from having one social interaction a week and having to take a few days to recover, to having had several lunches with friends and family this week and even going to a party on new years eve!

Olive has been a little delicate as of late, she caught a virus which caused a rash over her whole body.  Thankfully she is feeling much better, but for about 14 days she has been itchy and irritated, wanting to be carried none stop and crying at the smallest of inconvenience. Honestly, besides the rash, it was relatable.  I'm just so thankful that the onset of her illness coincided with me feeling more capable. 


Maybe it's the weather today, but I feel wonderful. I got up much earlier than I would on a week day (Just for some background I own a sauerkraut business where my business partner and I produce gourmet sauerkraut and sell it in shops and Sunday farmers markets.) We have come out the other side of a heat wave and the temperature sat at a breezy 18 degrees all morning with clear blue skies. Days like today make me feel nostalgic for my childhood. I see snapshots of kindergarten, peanut butter on celery sticks and "stained glass" made form cellophane. It fills me with inspiration for activities I'd like to try with Olive. Thankfully I'm an avid op-shopper so I have managed to find lots of the activity books that I owned as a child. The "rainy day" activity books were truly ingenious in the 90s, you'd be prompted to sew your own soft toys, make muffins or soup, build a fairy house or decorate your bedroom with anything from feather lamp shades to button picture frames.

I hope this energy continues and this beautiful weather. I'm looking forward to making more posts on this blog!