A Life of Managed Chaos
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Seeing that Mommy is apparently too tired to keep up with her blog, we’ve taken it over. Between the three of us, we’ve figured we can do this thing she calls “work”. Alex thought we should do the Not Me Monday post from us, so here we go:
We did not awake one fine morning [...]
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Happy New Year!
We’re in a new year and I feel so much hope and promise on this day for this year. Life feels good, warm, relaxed for all I have on my plate, for all my family has going on. The mere fact that I’ve put this perspective in writing, for you to read and [...]
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She has been one of my greatest contributions to this world; full of love, and light, laughter, intrigue, curiosity, maintaining buoyancy in all the life around her, gifted to her, made by her.
Changing outfits sometimes hourly, loving the clothes of the summer all year long. Flip-flops, or bare feet is preferred, and though she [...]
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I did not paint my not-yet-two-year-old son’s nails purple. He did not lay out his fingers on the table, spread out and wait patiently for me to paint them. He did not blow on them. I did not stop myself from doing his toenails too for fear that it would put his [...]
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It was a beautiful day. I thought I had the energy for whatever might come my way and truly wanted to get the kids out to enjoy the weather while we could. I drove us to one of our favorite spots to feed ducks and geese in a park with an enormous lake. [...]
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I’m thinking of taking a little dive. I do love the feel of warm waters softly contouring my limbs as I try to keep afloat on my way to the other side of the pool….
This pool is overwhelmingly large. An abyss of activity, fluttering, flurrying, pushing, shoving and competing for a little bit [...]
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Ever feel like you completely disappeared into a vortex of your own, only you didn’t realize you disappeared into that vortex until it slowly disseminated because some reality hit you square in the head, forcing you to shake side to side as in denial of a foggy dream, knotting your hands into the sockets of [...]
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I did not talk my daughter out of a $18 HUGE stuffed animal at Costco even though she loved his fuzzy body (which was as big as hers). As she looked at me in near tears, I did not figure out just the precise wording to get her to look at books with me [...]
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Ben likes trash cans. A lot.
He loves the duty of placing things within, even approaching you with a fist full of, “oh, I don’t know what that is, but it doesn’t look like something we need” asking if he can throw it in the trash. When he receives the nod, he buoyantly pitter-patters [...]
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