This has been such a fun week- Leigh-Ann got home from her birthday road trip late on Sunday night and we were so excited to see each other, catch up, and get back into our normal groove of working together at the studio that it set the tone for the whole week. It’s been laughing and dancing between all the client work we’re doing- and it’s just been an amazing time.

My (beautiful, worldly, talented) sister started working with us last month as our Advertising Manager, to manage the sponsorship programs we run for some of our clients and she’s been doing an incredible job. She’s finishing her business degree after living in Australia and France and it’s been so much fun to work with her and see her using her talents first hand. Late yesterday afternoon I was working on a project and she snapped this photo of me (that I tweeted):

and two minutes later the sky opened up. After a few drops of rain, hail appeared out of no where and started coming down in huge sheets. Almost immediately, it was hard to even see through!

In a moment my sister and I were little kids again, and Lana and I reacted with exactly what felt right at that moment: PLAYING IN THE HAIL STORM!

One of my friends and a creative business owner I really admire is Becka Robinson, who writes at Life as an Artistpreneur. Yesterday she wrote a post called “It’s Not All Pinterest and Cupcakes” about managing your schedule when run a small business that I loved. I’m working on a post for next week about how I’ve been trying to tailor how I spend my time, and how the first few months of being self employed have been both so fulfilling and so entirely different than I expected them to be. Becka’s post came at exactly the right time for me, and I loved being able to peek inside how she spends her days.

I’m excited to collect my thoughts and share them next week, but for now I wanted to say this: no matter who you are, or what your job is? A lot of the time, being a grown up is just tough. There are obligations, complications and never enough hours in the day.

And at the same time having family and friends close by? Feeling free to let go and be a kid when there’s a hail storm? And (yes!) even making time for pinterest and cupcakes? I just love how brightly those moments can shine.

No matter how crazy your day feels at the end of this short week, I hope you elbow aside your obligations for a few moments and make a little space for yourself today. Watch a TED talk, call someone you miss, or pay a co-worker a complement about something you admire in their character instead of about their outfit. And if all else fails, just let me know. I’ll see if I can muster up a hail storm to send your way.

{moments captured by the always lovely Leigh-Ann}