A day to breathe

Today was Memorial Day and I spent the day alone.  I was suppose to work a few hours today but it all changed last minute.  I started the day off a little frustrated because of it since that meant I could have spent the day at Lake Pleasant with my family.  Instead this is how the day went....

The girls went to the lake with Micah.  Kyle went over to Arthur's house.  That left me to myself.....
I went  and turned in my time sheets for work, then went across to wheeler park and browsed at the arts and crafts that was set up in the park.  Then I decided I wanted to go browse at World Market.  I enjoy walking around that store and taking it all in.  After that I went window shopping at a few more stores then I went by Wildflower Bread company to pick up a late lunch to take home and indulge in while enjoying my balcony. 

I put on some music after eating something and finished planting my flowers in pots.  I was super excited to then just sit there and enjoy my little area.  Later I grabbed my camera and began playing with different settings taking pictures of all my flowers.  I had fun snapping pictures of my surroundings.  Soon it was getting to be late in the afternoon and I found myself feeling discontent with sitting there so I grabbed my camera bag and headed out the door again.

This time I drove out to Lake Mary, it was a nice drive, not very busy.  I found a place to pull over and walk down to the rocky shore.  I sat for a along time enjoying the water, I love listening to the sound of water roll in and hit on the rocks and the shore.  I saw two boats, one looked like they were fishing and the other one was out to play and ski in the water.  There were a few people along the shore down from me fishing.  It was so relaxing sitting there, it started to get a little cool so I put on my sweater that I was glad I brought.  I took several deep breaths in and released them slowly.....

While sitting there I had also played with my camera again.

 I had my family in the back of my mind but I knew where everyone was at and that they were alright and enjoying their day therefore it made it easier for me to be alone and enjoy mine.....my day to just breathe.