pink peonies and other weekend things.

today's monday is shaping up to be a really great one. i have a to-do list a mile long but i'm determined to plow through them. i feel especially good on mondays when we're just coming off of a fun, productive weekend.

i think we're slowly creating a ritual - saturday afternoons are spent at the dog park and then hiking on sundays. yangkyu's dad was really into hiking so i think his love for it has rubbed off on yangkyu. 

we hiked a medium/hard trail at bull run mountain and it was all fine and dandy until i heard the bugs. wow. there were a lot of them. at one point they were literally falling from the sky and i was so scared that they would land on me and go down my shirt or latch on to my hair {i don't do well with bugs}. but once we made it on top of the overlook area, on top of the mountain, it was totally worth it. there was also this beautiful railroad track right before the hiking trail and i regretted slightly that i didn't bring my nice camera {i'm a sucker for when it comes to these kinds of sites}. 

afterwards we stopped by whole foods market because i was hoping to pick up some poppies {one of my favorites} for our flowers for the week but instead saw my other favorites, peonies, {first of the season!} and knew immediately to bring them home. 

then yangkyu did the sweetest thing - he gave me the bouquet and said happy mother's day to me and i laughed. i know some people don't like it when dogs are referred to as babies. i don't really have an opinion on it - sometimes i'll say i'm piri's mama and other times i'm the "human girl" in his life - but one thing i'm sure of is that he's the first dog that really taught me about real responsibilities and putting him before me. there were the 5 am walks when he first came to live with me {he was nervous which made me him go at odd hours}, consoling him at the vet's office as he trembled in my arms, catching his barf and cleaning up his diarrhea off of the carpet and making sure that he socialized well and was in general happy. thinking of how me and yangkyu adjusted so that piri can be an integral part of our lives made me realize even more how i can't wait to be a bigger family. so i said "thank you" for the bouquets and we all ended our sunday watching one of the most prettiest sunsets we ever did see. 

hope your weekend was a good one as well. and here's to an even better week!