when he just won’t…even for the love of all that is good and holy…stop movin’…
…there’s always “movers”!
– hannah’s image
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:: there’s just so much growin’ goin’ on around here…
and then…
over the next five months, even more turning overs over here! each of those months there’ll be one…or sometimes even two…to celebrate!
and then…
come february…a birth day we’ll wish we were celebrating…
and i just always seem to be asking…why this always having to grow?
why this everything always having to go by just…so…fast?!?
“…by one!”
it’s been a whole week since my family headed out on a fabulous “almost 3 whole days and 2 sleeps!” at the annual campout with our gathering family…
i rested behind…my sweet honey insisting on trekking back and forth…once just to check in on me…and twice just to sleep next to me!
and our littlest little tagged along on those sleeping treks…so he could “catch his breath” from all of the fun!
but i was especially missing that little guy on saturday…thinking about how much fun he must’ve been having getting to play “outside”…
all…day…long!
and i was so hoping that one of his older siblings might just catch a few pictures of him…of all of them…having their fun…
so i just spent that day fiddling around ‘round here…with just this and that…
just trying to keep from thinking too much…
and at some point, i stopped and checked in on my messages…to see if their daddy had sent any new love notes to me…
and then to my email…and on to that facebook…
and there on my “wall” was this sweet little pic…sent from just one of the sweetest of friends…
just sitting on that wall waiting for me!
that little mr. mischief having himself so much fun!
and how could she have known that that was just what i’d wanted?
just what i’d needed…
at that very moment…on that very day!?!
and i’ve just been so overwhelmed…again and again…
that so many…so often…would seek to lessen this sting just a bit…simply by loving on us…
and that picture just made me smile…
and then just burst into tears…
the very same thing i seem to be doing a lot as of late…anytime anybody does something…or says something…
just anything kind!
something that just seems to keep happening again and again…and over and over…these days!
:: while everyone else was out gathered at the campout today…eian and i both fell asleep…
and when we woke up…and still all groggy…we went out and snuggled in his daddy’s “special” chair…under gramma’s tree…
and i gave him the cinnamon and sugar donut that his daddy had brought to tempt me…and watched over the top of his little tow head as he munched and munched…and sprinkled sugar all over him and blankie and me…
and i took lots of deep breaths each time the cool breeze swept past…and cried a little…and kissed the top of his head a lot…
and i told him, “i love you”…and he said he “loves me” too…
and as he munched…i thought…back over this whole blurry past six days…
and as the breeze picked up again…one particular moment that blurry last tuesday came into focus for me…
the one when my honey and i were sitting out under her tree at the end of that day…just unraveling…and piecing together…and making sense of it all…
and while we sat…a wispy little wish…from i’m not sure where…came floating right on by in front of us…
and i watched it continue to drift past slowly…and then start to lift up…
and i kept my eyes on it as long as i could…as it drifted higher and higher up into the sky…and then, finally, altogether up and out of my sight…
and more tears blurred my eyes…that moment that tuesday…and again today remembering…
and i just hugged my eian even tighter…and kissed him again…
so thankful for that sweet wee little memory…and now for this new one with him…
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that same naked baby…just exploding through the doorway of our room…
and just exclaiming at the mere sight of me…an “i’m just so surprised and excited to find you in here!”…“mama!”
:: even eian’s “cheep cheeps” know the best place to (always) find a snack ‘round here!
as i was toiling at my desk this morning…one sweet little chick “knocked” ever-so politely on the sliding glass door…
and when the door was slid open to greet her, they all three casually hopped right up and into the dining room…and hurried straight for the “leftovers” scattered under-and-all-around his chair!
those silly-smart little cheep cheeps!
– hannah’s image of “chick” (july 6, 2013)
:: i just spotted a naked baby in our backyard…lounging in his daddy’s “special” chair…
but i’m (mostly almost) sure that he wouldn’t mind…
on this day in…
~ 2012 ~
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