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?!?
:: such weather! the girls made broccoli cheese soup for dinner…and a fire even got made in the hearth…
and (most of) the littles were agreeing that they’d like to just skip august and move right on to fall!
:: 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…
:: my honey thought it’d be good for us to get out of this house for a bit…to maybe even go grab us a bite to eat…
maybe even where other people might be…
and when i cleaned myself up…as best as i could…and got myself dressed…
i checked my reflection in the mirror one last time…and realized…
that to everyone else out there in the world…i’ll still “look” pregnant…
and that just didn’t seem right…
even dishonest somehow…
so i said to my honey, “i guess it just has to be okay if people look at me and think that i’m pregnant…”
and he just got soft on me and assured me that…yes…“that’d be just fine”…
and then i wondered out loud as i adjusted my skirt and my shirt around my middle…again…“and if someone asks when i’m due…i guess i’ll just say february…”
and he just smiled at me with that one particular smile…and an “that’d be fine too”…
and i just truly don’t know what else i could do…
:: my girl has been so faithful to keep up with the laundries (and so many other such things)…and i asked her if today she would please “share” some with me…
and who ever knew…how very therapeutic folding your way through a basket of underwears could be!
:: i’m so grateful this morning…for His mercies anew…
for so many loving on us…being His eyes and His ears…His hands and His feet…
for already…even through it…finding myself smiling…
and for the outlet He’s given…in joy…and in sorrow…that comes when i’m writing…
He gives every good thing…and sometimes He chooses to take them away…
blessed be the name of the Lord!
:: the first thing my eyes fluttered open and focused upon…was the sunflower in the bouquet resting at the foot of our bed…
and the first thing my mind fluttered open and focused upon…was the realization that yesterday wasn’t a dream…
:: my honey brought me pork noodle soup tonight…‘cause it just sounded too good…
and when i cracked open my cookie…my fortune read…
“you have a charming way with words and should write a book.”
and i showed it to him…and he smiled…and said something about “telling me so”…and something (or other) about God and His “providence”…
and then i cracked open his…‘cause it’s tradition that i always eat both…and it read…
“you have a charming way with words and should write a book.”
and i showed it to him…and he just laughed…
and how i did too!