I'm not looking forward to this afternoon. I have to go pick up Small Son from Preschool and take him for his Kindergarten Well Check. He is going to have to have 3 immunizations today, as well as being thoroughly checked out. Poor little dude. I hate the shots more than the kidlets do I think. I promised him a chocolate dipped ice cream cone from Dairy Queen as a reward. I'm then bringing him back to work with me for the rest of the work day which he is totally excited about, he loves coming to work with me.
When I got him dressed this morning, in his newest jeans (less than 3 months old) I realized very quickly that they were high-waters. They looked like Capri's. How does this happen. We measured him last night, and he has grown 1 1/2 inches in the last 3 1/2 months. I am going to have to buy this kid an entire new wardrobe. I am stuck buying name brand jeans because he is so skinny and the normal cheap jeans are always too big for him around the waist.
I can't believe my baby is going to start kindergarten in less than a month. I don't know where the time flew away too. I was looking at baby pictures of him, and I remember it all so clearly. He was such a sweet baby, and I was ecstatic to have him. I felt like the luckiest person in the world, and I still do.
I really am having a "missing my boy" day today. He is just such a sweet boy, absolutely wonderful, loving, bright and sunny. He is a night owl like me. He loves music like me. He loves waking up in the middle of the night and watching old movies on TV with me, which maybe I shouldn't let him do, but the cuddle factor is too much for me to resist.
He is a "noticer." He knows how to make you feel good. Yesterday I came down after getting ready for work, and he looked right at me and said, "mommy, you are beautiful". I don't know where he learned that, not from his dad for sure. He will love on his sister to no end, even after he has punched her or she has bitten him. They adore each other and want to be with each other all the time.
Today I'm trying to focus on the good things in my life, the positive things, the things that give me inspiration to move ahead.
Last night, our neighbor girls offered to baby-sit for free as part of their church service project, so hubby and I went out to dinner sans kids. Although it didn't feel like a date or anything, we had a nice peaceful time, and did a little talking. He got me a gift certificate for my birthday to a really nice hotel, so I could have a day and night "off", and I was able to get that scheduled today. All in all, I think I'm managing to get a little "me" time in, which is certainly helping me to ground myself a bit more.
Peace,
OC
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July 31, 2008
June 13, 2008
Writing the Path to Me
I sat down last night, and started writing, I mean really writing. I’ve always wrote, but in short bursts of energy.
I had a good night last night. I rocked both my babies to sleep. My baby girl, she begged me to rock her. Daddy said, she’s three, she’s too old. All the sudden, I got my back up in a huff and thought, she is NOT too old.
So I gathered her up in all of her just bathed, soft sleeper baby fuzziness and rocked my baby girl to sleep. She went down so fast, so peacefully.
Then my son, who is 5, begged me to rock him while I was rocking his sister to sleep. I finally gave in, and said “OK”. I let him go watch some TV downstairs while I rocked her.
When I finally put her in her little bed, all sleepy, warm and peaceful, I went downstairs and grabbed up my little son. I turned off the TV, and he climbed up on me. I held him close, and could almost see my sweet baby boy, as I had rocked him for so many years while nursing him to sleep.
It was so precious.
Just him, me and the story he was telling me as his eyes grew sleepy. After about 20 minutes, I gathered him up along with his stuffed snake, and carried him upstairs and tucked him into bed. He sleepily protested, but his eyes were closed before I was out of the room.
I then went back downstairs, poured myself a glass of wine, and sat down with the TV off, and the music on, and started writing a story. I was amazed at how into it I was.
I wrote long into the night, until my eyes were so tired they were closing, and I was still typing. I didn’t want to go to bed, I didn’t want to stop. I woke up thinking about it this morning. I feel like I’ve made some new friends.
Maybe all this blogging is finally unlocking my brain enough to let go.
I realized last night that I do know how to write, and write well. It’s just a matter of organizing myself to do so. All those years in college English classes, did teach me how to structure a sentence (although nothing will ever teach me to spell correctly).
All the years of voracious reading, did teach me how a story unfolds, and how to pace it, to let it trickle along, like a little stream, until it turns into a river full of rapids.
Last night, I felt myself falling in love with the characters I had created. I don’t know why it had never occurred to me, that I can create in my head, and put down in words, the romantic stories I’ve been craving. It felt good. It felt right.
I’ve always known that journaling was the way to get your creative juices flowing, but I’ve never had the self discipline to do it.
This last year, and mostly in the last 6 or 8 months, blogging has become an increasingly important part of my life. I’ve found a community of like minded souls who have given me nothing but support, ideas and even if they don’t agree with what I’m saying, they are respectful with their responses.
I have asked people in my “real life” if they ever read blogs, most of them don’t even know what a blog is, or what it does.
Right now, the people in my life that are closest to knowing the “real” me, are the people that actually read my blog. This is where I keep the part of myself that I do not show the outside world. It’s funny, when I started this, I thought of all the anonymity I would have and I do.
But, what I didn’t count on was making the friends, the real soul connections I have made with a few of you out there, and you know who you are.
So I want to say thank you for giving me comfort during this time when I’ve been so scared and unsure of where and what I was doing. For that matter, I still am scared of what is to come, but I know, I’m not alone out in this big bad world. That there are people out there who do care.
Just because my forum is through the written word, doesn’t make it any less valid than the relationships I have in “real” life. If anything, I’m more honest, more open and more accepted here than anyplace else.
I will make it through this pain thing. I will learn how to deal with it, in a way that makes me a stronger person. I really love living my life, I don’t want it diminished because of this, so I believe there is some lesson I need to learn right now. My body is trying to teach me something, and I need to listen to it. The path is there, I need to learn how to read the signs.
Peace,
OC
I had a good night last night. I rocked both my babies to sleep. My baby girl, she begged me to rock her. Daddy said, she’s three, she’s too old. All the sudden, I got my back up in a huff and thought, she is NOT too old.
So I gathered her up in all of her just bathed, soft sleeper baby fuzziness and rocked my baby girl to sleep. She went down so fast, so peacefully.
Then my son, who is 5, begged me to rock him while I was rocking his sister to sleep. I finally gave in, and said “OK”. I let him go watch some TV downstairs while I rocked her.
When I finally put her in her little bed, all sleepy, warm and peaceful, I went downstairs and grabbed up my little son. I turned off the TV, and he climbed up on me. I held him close, and could almost see my sweet baby boy, as I had rocked him for so many years while nursing him to sleep.
It was so precious.
Just him, me and the story he was telling me as his eyes grew sleepy. After about 20 minutes, I gathered him up along with his stuffed snake, and carried him upstairs and tucked him into bed. He sleepily protested, but his eyes were closed before I was out of the room.
I then went back downstairs, poured myself a glass of wine, and sat down with the TV off, and the music on, and started writing a story. I was amazed at how into it I was.
I wrote long into the night, until my eyes were so tired they were closing, and I was still typing. I didn’t want to go to bed, I didn’t want to stop. I woke up thinking about it this morning. I feel like I’ve made some new friends.
Maybe all this blogging is finally unlocking my brain enough to let go.
I realized last night that I do know how to write, and write well. It’s just a matter of organizing myself to do so. All those years in college English classes, did teach me how to structure a sentence (although nothing will ever teach me to spell correctly).
All the years of voracious reading, did teach me how a story unfolds, and how to pace it, to let it trickle along, like a little stream, until it turns into a river full of rapids.
Last night, I felt myself falling in love with the characters I had created. I don’t know why it had never occurred to me, that I can create in my head, and put down in words, the romantic stories I’ve been craving. It felt good. It felt right.
I’ve always known that journaling was the way to get your creative juices flowing, but I’ve never had the self discipline to do it.
This last year, and mostly in the last 6 or 8 months, blogging has become an increasingly important part of my life. I’ve found a community of like minded souls who have given me nothing but support, ideas and even if they don’t agree with what I’m saying, they are respectful with their responses.
I have asked people in my “real life” if they ever read blogs, most of them don’t even know what a blog is, or what it does.
Right now, the people in my life that are closest to knowing the “real” me, are the people that actually read my blog. This is where I keep the part of myself that I do not show the outside world. It’s funny, when I started this, I thought of all the anonymity I would have and I do.
But, what I didn’t count on was making the friends, the real soul connections I have made with a few of you out there, and you know who you are.
So I want to say thank you for giving me comfort during this time when I’ve been so scared and unsure of where and what I was doing. For that matter, I still am scared of what is to come, but I know, I’m not alone out in this big bad world. That there are people out there who do care.
Just because my forum is through the written word, doesn’t make it any less valid than the relationships I have in “real” life. If anything, I’m more honest, more open and more accepted here than anyplace else.
I will make it through this pain thing. I will learn how to deal with it, in a way that makes me a stronger person. I really love living my life, I don’t want it diminished because of this, so I believe there is some lesson I need to learn right now. My body is trying to teach me something, and I need to listen to it. The path is there, I need to learn how to read the signs.
Peace,
OC
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