Gypsy

I'll admit... I had some boxes sitting in the corner of my dining room that have basically been in boxes since Texas. I have a problem... I'm a bit of a gypsy. I guess it's not a problem, but it has taken me quite some time to feel tethered to one specific place. Maui - yes. Tethered and never moving again in the foreseeable future.

When we sold our condo in Napili I took down some pendant lights that I loved before it went on the market. They were boxed up and followed us to Haiku where they remained boxed. Then they followed us to Austin - and even though at the time I thought that was my dream - they remained boxed and hidden away. I collected more treasures that were important as the kids were babies and those items were added to the boxes that were never unpacked.

When we moved home to Maui and got the rental in Makawao, I had visions of unboxing everything but hesitated. When that went sour and we fled as quick as we could, the boxes were again moved into our Wailuku house and stashed and have been sitting there in the corner of the dining room looking at me for the past year and a half.

Tonight Peter helped out a friend by switching shifts so he got a weird late-night shift tonight. For some reason, when he's not home I feel more inclined to get things done (I feel super lazy when we're both home!) and so I tackled those damn boxes! It was liberating!!!

I feel so connected and yes, tethered, to this little plot of land in Wailuku town. I finally have visions of being settled down, hanging my pendant lights, and actually putting things away...dare I say "organized"??

The dining room is now looking pretty kick ass. 

Easter Weekend

By  now you know how we do it... we slide holidays. The entire weekend became Easter as we got together with all sides of the family (minus Koa who was working).

 The post-chocolate comatose Ryenne getting in on a picture with Nana

 We did an egg hunt in the front yard too!

 Then we were on for some bike fun with our neighbor, Zerieh. Auntie Jean got in on the action...

 Then Dad decided he wanted a turn too!

 Nana liked checking out the garden.

 We got everyone on the front stoop for a family picture.

 Grandma and Papa brought Easter goodies for the kids too!

Then we headed out to Tavares Bay for an awesome afternoon with Pickle guys and Uncle Jeff. We stayed until the sun went down and the kids were playing hard to work off all that sugar!

Easter Sunday itself was actually pretty hard and not the best day. So I'll leave you with this one happy moment with Ryenne and a donkey (she knows how much I love donkeys!)