:: 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?!?
each of our littles has a box of “treasures”…special little things of theirs that i’ve set aside for them…
we call them their “keepsake” boxes…
although, at some point along the way, one of the littles mispronounced it “keep-safe”…and it stuck…because it seemed even more appropriate that way!
there’s blankies…and locks of hair…and (even) a lost tooth housed safely inside each…
and my intention is to send them along with each of them someday…but for now…they’re just (mostly) for me…
for when they creep up on a milestone birthday…or come home with keys to a car…for me to sneak down to the basement and open and remember…to hold in my hands the little dresses or little shoes that they somehow…once upon a time…used to fit into…
and when i went to tidy the top drawer of my desk last night…i came across that test i’d placed there to “keep safe” for a time…until a box could be started for our wee little one…
and i realized…
they won’t need one…
that that test i held in my hand was the only treasure i have…
the only hold-in-my-hand reminder…that even though for ever-so briefly…our wee little one…was…
#19
lunching…
…with him.
and getting little “whiffs” of his cologne all the rest of this day…
little hugs from him leftover on me…
– my grandad with we three…on my 3rd birthday! (april 16, 1975)
#18
coming home to happy kids…
that boy o’ ours having taken them on an ice cream run…
and to the park…
and sticking in a movie…
and letting them “camp” in this…
…for that whole two sleeps!
that boy…he parents these littles better than him and me…
– hannah’s image
dear belly, bat wings and bum,
say…
how come i never have to get on bust’s case?
huh?!?
very sincerely,
me
#17
his leaving these tucked here and there…
…for me to just happen upon.
