When we were driving by our current house over and over again, hoping the sale would go through, I used to look around at everything. I wanted to take pictures of the worn barns, the restored and not-so-restored old homes and the horses and the tractors causing us to go 40 miles under the speed limit. I never did because taking pictures while driving would be the quickest way to take out a tractor driver and because I hoped I would be driving these same quirky roads for years to come.
For the first few months we were here I pointed out signs for alpacas and fields of growing stuff (corn maybe? I’m no gardner) and dizzied the kids with my look-over-there‘s when we went for walks. I was so excited by our new surroundings and had big plans for not forgetting how much I loved it.
Sawyer likes to perch on the headboard of our bed and jump onto the mattress like a superhero whose name is Super or Captain-someone and see how many launches he can get away with before getting caught. Yesterday I spotted him mid-descent and I was just far enough away to really see him. His arms were long and his legs were longer and his face lost at least half its cheeks. I lifted him from the bed to test out his growing up status and he pushed up his glasses that we’ve only broken once.
On the drive to school this morning I noticed trees without leaves that I don’t remember changing from yellow to red and Parker counted to ten in Chinese. I only know this because I asked him to translate. The sign for $1 goldfish is gone and so is the stand I had always planned to stop at for corn.
The moving forward and the changing of all these days just keeps happening no matter how much I pinky-swear to slow it down and take it in. Yesterday I was dreaming up something to put above the fireplace and today I’m stepping on Legos as I try to find the Pottery Barn catalog to swat flies. The funny thing is though, tomorrow I will be dreaming back to today… when my biggish-little ones would squish on my lap for a story and my oldest asked for a kiss before the bus.
There’s always something a bit sweeter about yesterday and a little more hopeful about tomorrow. It’s the sitting in today and liking it just as it is that is the hardest. Not wishing for yesterday or next week but hanging out right here, in the middle of now, letting your eyes focus until they blur and the day is crystal clear.
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I definitely know what you mean… I feel like I have gotten better at appreciating each day since becoming a mom, but it is so easy to slip into the frenzied place of trying to get things done instead of focusing on what is most important.
Beautiful post!
Congrats on being in a new book, too!
yes. this. all of this. so beautiful, and such a big congratulations on being included in the book! I wish no one had the life experience on how to be a grieving mother, but so glad, since it is a reality, that there are beautiful mamas like you to hold hands with each hurting one.
Beautiful post…simply beautiful. Congratulations on the book.
Thank you so much!
Oh crafter of words, you get me every time.
Huge compliment coming from the best word-crafter I know.
Beautiful words. I could picture every bit of it. Congratulations on the book!
This is just beautiful!
Isn’t that the way life always seems to go? Rushing through the moment and then regretting what is left behind? I LOVE the picture of the lantern release and so wish that I was close enough to join you. I’ll be thinking of Hadley and all of our angels! xoxo
Ahh, so lovely as always. I wish I could come to the lantern release. It sounds absolutely beautiful. XO I’ll say a prayer for you at that time.
I wish you could be here too. One of these days…
P.S. I keep forgetting to comment how much I like the October picture. McKenna and the wings is such an amazing picture. Sending you hope and hugs.
Thanks, that photo is so bittersweet. She was dressing up and couldn’t talk the boys into wearing her other set of wings :(.
Every time I look at that photo I feel the loss of Hadley
I love the lines “There’s always something a bit sweeter about yesterday and a little more hopeful about tomorrow. It’s the sitting in today and liking it just as it is that is the hardest.” So so true! I wish I lived closer so I could go to your lantern release – I will be thinking of you and Hadley.
Congratulations on the book – I am off to go search for it. xo