Friendship

I so hope to recapture time with friends this summer as the winter and spring has seemed to be all about work issues (we are self employed) and when the dust does settle we simply sleep or frantically clean the house, water plants, mow lawns... normal stuff for normal people but still it can become a cycle without enough of the goodstuff, the laughs, the lightheartedness.  We have squidged in short snaps of time with good old friends and they help you to come out of yourself a little.  Having a baby in the house was lovely and having someone need you totally a reminder of the important stuff, being prepared, nurturing someone and being in-tune with another human being.  Our kids have been truly amazing in our months of madness, the boy walking 3 km's from the bus home up a very steep hill.  The girl not complaining when we are too tired to cook lovely meals and are living off pasta and pesto.  So in little steps towards being more relaxed we hope to kick-back with friends this summer and enjoy some time eating together, cooking together, looking at the views and breathing in the Tuscan air.