Sad for a moment…but the image stayed with me
I realize there is plenty of time for her to see the world for how it really is. Perhaps there is even such a thing as knowing and feeling too much.
I realize there is plenty of time for her to see the world for how it really is. Perhaps there is even such a thing as knowing and feeling too much.
It’s very noisy here, and hard to imagine that two 11 year olds girls coming down stairs really do make furniture shake. The phone rings constantly and I’m the only one who seems to hear it and have to be chase down one of four missing handsets usually found under beds or in sofa cushions. Within our chaos …
The cooling air, the bright blue skies, the turning leaves, a quieter house, leads me to face the fact that summer is drawing to it’s beautiful close. Today I want to celebrate the things I learned this summer. I learned that you can grate hard boiled eggs? I kid you not. They grate like a dream to make …
I’ve learned
that you cannot make someone love you.
All you can do is
be someone who can be loved.
The rest is up to them.
I’ve decided that Summer is actually about 3 weeks long. Once you take off the visitors ‘visiting’ time, and the parent involvement in summer activities you are actually only left with about 3 weeks of unscheduled summer. Hmmm. Three precious weeks. To nap, to read, to walk, to make overdue phone calls, and catch up …
Bad luck or Mercury Retrograde? All I know is that I could have done with a ‘bad luck basket’. Maybe I’ll have to add one to our range….