happy christmas!
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:: eian still doesn’t want to be a superhero…
…even after i’ya showed him how fun it can be!
eager unstuffers!
#34
finding a sweet note in my box the very first thing…
having a lingering-long-after-she-cleared-our-table lunch date with him…
learning they could all come to share our first peppermint ice cream and cocoa of the season…
that boy o’ mine sitting down next to me and just needing to talk…even to me…just his mama…
and…really…just eventually losing count…
just truly more reasons than i deserve on this monday!
#33
getting to the (almost) end of this most mondayest of mondays…sometime after most everyone else had all trickled off to their beds…
and that boy o’ mine coming to me…completely unaware of my sorry-for-me state…and asking…
“do you want anything from dairy queen?”
on this day in…
~ 1997 ~
island days
oh…that day…
what i wouldn’t give to go back to that day…just for a bit…
to plant myself on an obliging drift log and just watch those boys explore that island all over again…
those boys…now all grown…
those “big” boy cousins…when they weren’t any bigger than these crazy “little” boy cousins are now…
them loving it there ever-as-much as i did when i was that big…when their papa and nana started taking we three…
and then when we were all grown…papa and nana, we (married) three and all of our (so far) littles…making those end-of-summer treks so many memorable times…
and then…for 21…him and me holing up there for that five glorious days…
and now…another full circle…that boy o’ mine planning a trip back there again…
back to explore that island…and reminisce…“just him”…
‘round and ‘round…circle after circle…
this life always rolling on forward…
always picking up speed the further it goes…
and yet somehow…sometimes…one rolling-forward circle comes full ‘round…and dips back…even if just a bit…into the full circle just before it…
hills being rolled…islands being explored…His story being told!
this blessed dipping back in, all the while still moving forward…
and me…just (ever-still) sometimes…wishing i could just circle…all the way back…and around once again!
#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
on this day in…
~ 2007 ~
“count your blessings, name them one by one…by one…by one…”
on this day in…
~ 2012 ~
first fourth
three fourths