I’d intended to write this while dinner cooked, but apparently it was a very fast meal. Now, I’ve got grilled cheese just about cooked, Amy’s Tomato Bisque Soup about to start bubbling, and the baby’s cuddle time with daddy is just about up, as my expanding chest tells me.
The moments don’t last long.
That’s largely why I haven’t written in awhile. Other reasons include a catastrophe of a broken heater, two massive snow storms, crazy drama with plumbers, and generally living life with so many little people under foot. Definitely a crisis of time management.
I’d snapped this picture to show you guys the snowfall- though many of you are from places that get twice this much in a dusting. It was quite spectacular for this area.
Instead, I realized it very much describes my stage in life right now. I know where I want to be, but that just isn’t happening right now. My routine, my house, my WAHMabilities, my body, my teaching, my attitude…none of it is where I want it to be. All I can do is just…be. The snow really is gorgeous, as is my stage in life (said as I hear squealing in the other room as the boys fight over something, likely an imaginary something). If I tried to force us to be where I think we should be, we’d wind up sitting in a foot and a half of snow. Instead, I could be making snow icecream and knitting by the fire.
Making a blogging schedule is on my to-do list. Bulk food shopping, winding up postpartum recipes and the stragglers, weather trees and more…just as soon as I use up this snow.
Brannan, I can so relate, girl. You’re not alone! We’ve not been dealing w/the heating/house issues to this extent but we don’t have heat upstairs or air so, we sort of deal w/that half of the year
Old house…
We’re on the mend now but, baby has cried for most of her awake time since she’s come out (digestive/fungus/yeast all working hand in hand) and though it’s not my first time to deal w/either of these things, it is my first time w/all 4 kids schooled at home alongside this. AGH!!! There is for sure grace, and I know you know/feel that when it’s needed most. I tell myself that every day is a new day, to do it different, to do it better, to get it done. Just glad to be alive, even if that means I have to feel all the hard parts. Sending lots of love and prayers your way from a mama that could use the very same! Muah!
Anyhow, schooling is a joke right now but we’re still plowing ahead. Baby has colic and wee’re healing up from almost 2 weeks of thrush (I HATE THRUSH!!!!) which has forced me to do a candida diet which has left this very hungry nursing mama feeling like she’s starving when all I really want is blueberry pancakes, sweet breads and pizza!!!!! Thus our yeast issue
Oh my goodness…candida diets can make you crazy! ((hugs)) Let me know if you need anything at all. Otherwise, use naps and showers as a reset button to the day, and eventually we’ll be out of this crazy stage.