The busy - ness of it all..

"The world is a place of business [busy-ness]. What an infinite bustle! I think there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business." Henry David Thoreau

Agreed. Maternity leave helped me to slow down (that and the fact that my little Miss Elizabeth tends to love the right side of my body and has since pushed down so hard on my right pelvic muscles, it is almost impossible to walk) and take time to enjoy little tasks, like how fun it is to fold little newborn baby jeans.