I still haven’t found the camera charger for the camera I normally use AND I have misplaced the camera that I have been using in the interim. On the upside the camera without a charger had enough juice for me to get the photos off (most of which I might add are boring photos of bedroom furniture we were selling… ) I did get one good picture off that we took about two weeks ago when it snowed. Today it’s raining and I wish it was snowing instead because it’s cold and too nasty to get out either way but at least with the snow I can gaze out the window at it and reminisce about my youth.
I wrote this yesterday and it sums up my current perspective on child rearing:
“The things you might well miss the most are the ones you forget to capture in the quite moments of recognition that happen during everyday living.”
That is pretty much how it is every day. Too many things to do, too many messes to clean, to many fires to put out, etc. I’m working in just sitting and playing and being still but it’s against my nature and I have to work at it. I am happy for the times that I do though.
Update: One week from today is surgery day. We have bought 100’s of $’s of groceries in the past few days so that we don’t have to run to the store afterward. I am sick, sick, sick of grocery stores. We have put up new furniture in every one of the kids rooms in the last 3 weeks. I’ll take photos to show you all once the kids finish cleaning up said rooms. I finished painting the accent walls in the living rooms yesterday so I’ll take photos of that as well. Today I buy more paint. Yes, you can paint a house every day for a year and not be finished I believe! Victoria was sick but now is pretty much better. Chullain was bad and now is no longer punished. Aidan made a mess and still continues to make messes… Hmm, too bad that last situation wasn’t remedied like the others. Bo and I were on a diet and doing really well. Now Bo is on a diet and doing really well and I cheat and loose weight slowly (but I’m ok with that as I like cake quite a bit.)
