Puppy love :)

Probably one of the only males that I would bust out the sewing kit for!

Puppa's favorite toy is just like brand new!

Finding that missing something...

I just got home from work and I'm in kind of a surreal mood. Everything is fine. Don't get me wrong. I've just had a couple of pretty crazy weeks at work and I feel like I'm finally coming down. I'm sitting on the porch swing outside and just trying to take in all that is around me. The rose bushes out front are full of beautiful pink roses and they almost seem like a miracle. We never water them and they look perfect.

I want to get more involved in something. I just don't know what yet. It's hard in the kind of work that I do find time to volunteer, but I want to find something that will be meaningful. Not that my work isn't meaningful. It definitely is. I just need something other than work to delve into to. It seems like everyone I know has hobbies and is involved in something. Maybe spending some time volunteering at a shelter or something like that. I also have been trying to work on activities that assist in allowing me some time for myself. I've been going to Monday night yoga with my fabulous neighbor for some time now and that seems to help, but I've had a hard time focusing on time at the gym. Since we got the puppy it's been hard trying to justify time at the gym. When I'm gone all day I want to spend some time with him. I know I will work it all out. It will just take some time. I can't even imagine what it would be like to add kids into the mix. Gahh. I don't know how people do it.

Well, I just heard my hubby and puppy pull up and I need to get my puppy fix!

Hope y'all are having a great night!

Finding the time...

I uploaded blogger to my phone so that I can blog when I have a spare moment. I love blogging, but sometimes it is hard to find the time. This should help. I'm just about to go to bed and I'm all snug in bed and looking at the reflection from my favorite lamp that I got for my bat mitzvah. <3 night y'all!

This makes me smile

I saw this during my journeys this week. It's adorable!

The Kipps...

Hello, hello! I hope that y’all are well! Today is Yom Kippur and I’m lying in bed and reflecting. I’m trying to figure out my Judaism. I’ve been so busy with life that I haven’t been keeping track of it. I know you are thinking “is this girl crazy? She doesn’t know where her Judaism went?”. Well, a lot has changed in the past year and it’s the first time I’ve looked deeply at myself and my religion. When I lived at home it was easy. My mom scheduled family dinners and we all celebrated together. When you live far from family and your husband works at a Jewish organization it becomes harder to figure out where you fit in. I’ve really tried to distance myself from my husband’s work…well…because….it’s his work. The only time it really becomes an issue is when Jewish holidays are involved. If I do not go with him, then I don’t see him. I guess I knew that when I signed on to marry a Jewish professional, but at that point I still lived near my family and was getting the total experience. I try to go with the hubs sometimes, but I always try and stay in the background because he’s so busy and sometimes my introverted ways get the best of me. I went to services last night at the Reform temple and it just didn’t fit. I kept looking at the back door waiting for the hubs to walk in and for us to experience it together. Needless to say, that didn’t happen. It just doesn’t feel like the holidays right now. I miss home. Sometimes growing pains are a little too intense. I definitely need to find my own way to get involved here, but I don’t know how just yet.

I hope that everyone is having a meaningful Yom Kippur and really searching deep. I’m trying. It will just take some time.