rise and shine.

This little lady has been waking up at 6:30am every morning for the past week, which is far from Auntie Trish's preferred hour of rising (let's just say there's not a whole lot of "shining" to be done at 6:30am from me). Normally after a quick bribed-with-a-treat potty stop, I attempt to coax her back to sleep for at least another hour (though mostly it ends up being me day dreaming while she snores like her life depends on it nuzzled up in my ear), but today I decided to take the opportunity to get moving a little earlier. I could have moved slowly--farting around on the internet for awhile while I sipped my coffee to only, you know, head to work and be on the internet while I sip coffee--but we got ready quickly (I got ready quickly while Lucy ate breakfast, a marrow bone and another treat for potty #2) and left to greet this sunny day. Normally we keep a pretty brisk pace on the walk to work, but today I let the crazy fur ball sniff whatever she wanted for as long as she wanted, only hurrying her a bit in order to stop her from eating a giant piece of garlic outside an Italian restaurant, a gelato spoon, a cigarette butt a man just flicked and the slowest pigeon in San Francisco. We chose the sunny side of the street the whole way and strolled through North Beach as if we had no where to be besides exactly where we were. We were first in the office, played fetch with a bouncy blue ball down the hall, made a smoothie and a hot water with lemon (my new favorite diet addition) and got a head start on emails (or in her case, a head start on nap #1). It was a pretty good start to Tuesday.

So, I guess what I'm trying to say is that while I don't want to wake up every day at 6:30am (hint hint, Lucy, 7:30am sounds like a great Wednesday start time), sometimes a little encouraging to rise and shine is greatly needed (and appreciated).

love and light,

Trish

rise and shining...greeting the sun with gratitude!

"less photos, more treats" -Lucy