Baby toes and broken washing machines.
Sweet story time with 'little miss questions' and piles of languishing dirty cloth diapers (which I am unable to wash!)
Sweet little scooching across the room with arms and one foot on his way to mama and dog hair coating the front of his jammies.
A little girl's bright eyed joy at being able to wear her new (pink!) fall dress and a trip to the home supply store to drop $500+...(ack!) on a new washing machine.
A new washing machine(!) that we are blessed to be able to afford...(Yay!) and piles of clothes to wash
A warm, safe home to live in and a list of repairs that I never get to.
Two wonderful babies who I spend my days loving on rather than fixing the house.
Eventually I run out of the things that I tend to focus on rather than the gifts of today and I am left with piles and piles of beauty and blessings and kisses and questions and stories and a baby who has learned to hug mama and crawl and eat bananas (so amusing to watch) and 'boing' and give kisses, and take in life with wide eyes and a beautiful little girl who I just can't get enough of with her curiosity and her little matter o' fact statements and her bookwormness and flitting around the house on a mission to create or dream or invent or dance. I want to drink in the things I am learning about them, who they are becoming and hold it still in my memory so I won't for get it. (and find the time to write it in their books, because I know I will) The wind in the leaves on this cool gray September day. Teaching my little one to find the joy in everything we do, even when it's something we don't want to do. Reminding myself to do the same.
Today is a gift for which I am so grateful. Now I gotta run fish a clump paper out of the baby's mouth!
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