hello world.

1. press play (might wanna downsize it to 380p first...)

2. read

i think i've taken a long enough blogging break...

so, i'm back.

it's been a crazy several months since we've talked. to sum it up in a generalized, impersonal sentence,

the recession hit our home and we've fought back with tenacity.

so we're busybusybusy with side jobs... woodworking, car fixing, piano teaching, photo shooting... and high-quality family time.

God is good.

He loves His children.

He blesses those who serve Him.

true story.

high-quality family time... gosh i love my little humans. i mean really really adore them. it's a fierce love. (why don't we have other words for "love"?) and i LOVE, ADORE, OBSESS OVER, LIVE FOR my family. i never would have guessed that this would be me. a happy homemaker: sewing, baking, cooking, cleaning, laundering, wiping scrapes, making beds, scrubbing toilets, and loving it all. i love it! I LOVE MY LIFE. i feel like what i do, my day to day, it has real purpose.

and tonight at dinner when deli asked me if i knew who Thomas S. Monson was, and before i could answer she went on about how we don't live in kahuku but the hospital lives in kahuku, and laie is where we go for food, and we live on keanawali place in haulula, and gwen piped in that God lives in heaven and it's far far away past kahuku but he drives so so so SO fast... i just sat and soaked in all their jibber jabbering.

gwen talks with her hands. deli talks with her eyebrows.

then after a long talk about daddy's special powers (the priesthood) and why guitars have strings and pianos have strings but pianos hide their strings, and why boys run faster than girls and how it has nothing to do with daddy's special powers, we had some ice cream cones. deli got brain freeze. gwen turned into a melted mushy puddle of frozen dairy confectionary.

and now they're sleeping. and it's freezing. and my other half is on another island, also sleeping. 

and i'm folding laundry... well, i was before i started typing.

(okay, i never actually started folding. but it's there. clean. and i have the intent to fold...)

and i'm happy and grateful.

i mean wow... 

wow!

life is good.