Treated myself to a tattoo for my birthday recently. Had the idea in my head, and the artist did a beautiful job making it real 🥰
The daffodil is my son's month flower, the carnation mine. The book because reading is life. The ghost for my love of spooks. #tattoo #ghost #birthday

L and I are now Orange belts! Did late testing because life happened, but we did it. Super proud of us both for sticking with it and especially for L working so hard to perfect his form in time for the test. He was getting tons of praise from the instructor too.

a list of nice things:

• window panes rimed with frost
• reading a long book in bed on a cold night
• chocolate-covered marzipan
• the soundtrack to Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
• children reading or being read to in airports
• illustrations in century-old fairy-tale anthologies

L and I test for our Orange belts in Taekwondo this weekend. We're so excited! We get to start sparring soon 🥳 I love that we're in this together and it's something we can bond over as mom and son

Holidays have always been tough and dreadful due to family division of traditions ans beliefs. But choosing and making my own traditions is becoming freeing and I'm finally finding my joy again. #mentalhealth #holidays #family