It's Friday - time for our weekly trip down blog memory lane!
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The Makings of a Day
{Originally posted November 14, 2006}
Today, we...
::had breakfast. An hour later, had breakfast #2. an hour after that? snack.
::played checkers. Until the board was tipped upside down by a frustrated little one.
::put away two baskets of clean, folded laundry (thanks honey). Filled the empty baskets with dirty laundry. The cycle continues.
::sharpened every pencil in the house, which required dumping them out on the table (where they then rolled all over the floor).
::cleaned said pencil off the wall. Adelaide?
::helped Ezra build an impromptu, emergency home out of blocks for Dunk, whose own home has apparently been flooded.
::read the entire basket full of our holiday books. Can I really continue to read only these everyday until December 25th? I don't know.
::made a solar system mobile, after discovering that we had no
pictures of the solar system anywhere in our house. (bad, bad,
homeschoolers.)
::changed three diapers, the third time there were no clean cloth diapers in the house. Used a dishtowel.
::tried to put Adelaide down for a nap. Four times. Only fell asleep after walking around in the sling for 45 minutes.
::started making an apple pie. burned out the motor in the food
processor. set off the smoke detectors. woke the babe up from her 10
minute nap. came back downstairs to an upside down bag of flour. nice.
::called Steve at work with desperation in my voice. Twice.
::called a friend for a sanity check, but I couldn't hear her because the craziness at her house combined with the craziness at my house to make a constant noise of static over which we could not speak.
::injected a pot of coffee.
It's 10 o'clock in the morning.
I try for rhythm. But some days, this just is the rhythm. When we're all headed in four different directions, and I'm not sure I'm going to make it to the end of the day (which seems like a very long time away). But I'm learning (trying) from these three little teachers of mine, to laugh a lot and just let it 'be'. Even - and especially - on days like today.*** *** *** ***
A Note Today:
I remember this day so well, the many more in the years since, and surely there are more to come in the years ahead. Those days seem to be all about the ongoing parenting (life?) lesson of 'leting go and rolling with it'. I'm still in practice (every day), but I do think - with practice - that it gets easier each year. There's so much to be learned from our time with these little ones. (And oh, the many uses for a dishtowel...)
Happy Weekending to you!
