monday.
a fresh new week.
ready to go.
with responsibilities and accountabilities.
farewell to the weekend and it’s luxuries.
take a running start. and a deep breath.
smile for the ability to begin again.
~K
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
June 25, 2011- Sisters
Lots of wonderful moments and happy memories.
Beaches. Dancing. Laughing. Sunset. History. Family. Surprises. Fun.
~K
June 24, 2011- Suprises
I love surprises.
I love the smile and the excitement and the way it feels to make someone else just. that. happy.
Look at that face.
Surprise!
~K
June 23, 2011 – Joy
While at a swim meet waiting to swim, children were sitting in groups, snacking and visiting among each other. Others warmed up in the corner of the pool area. And yet others fanned themselves off, trying to fend away the bugs and the oppressive heat.
All the while, this sweet child of mine decided to seize the moment and run through the fields, twirling happily around and around in circles with her arms spread wide, ….stopping only to pick the flowers.
I love her joy. It is true and innocent and pure and I love being included in the same space as it… for it reminds me to also be better.
~K
Thursday, June 23, 2011
June 21, 2011- A Moment
This summer is racing by. I feel like we are filling so many moments with goodness, but lately, it seems like maybe I’m also filling just too many moments. It’s starting to feel a little heavy, I guess. Too Consumed. No time to clean the house, go to the grocery, even make it to my yoga. The temperatures outside continue to rise as I feel everything else also rising, bursting at the seams, hoping for some type of relief to come.
It was in the middle of all of this when I found a moment. Swim team was over. The kids had been fed. I still had a couple of hours before work. I jumped in the pool and held my youngest while we swam and laughed, nose to nose in the water. Next, my older child, a mermaid herself, came hopping through the water at us. She climbed into my other arm. My entire vision was filled with their beautiful and genuine smiles. We laughed and danced together in the water, both of their wet little bodies engulfed in my arms.
And it was a moment. A moment that certainly didn’t fix the rising stress or take me to yoga or clean the house or lighten the work schedule…. but a moment that let us breathe and smile and enjoy and be grateful – for just how good life truly is.
A perfect moment.
~K
Saturday, June 18, 2011
June 18, 2011- Belle
Go figure.
My dog.
Giant pain in the rear.
Eats food off of counters.
Doesn’t stay in the yard. Or the house for that matter.
Diamond earrings. Frozen pork tenderloin. 5 # bag of potatoes. Bags of chips. Fruit roll ups. Chicken poop Fertilizer.
She’s eaten all of this. The last four in the last two weeks.
Barks incessantly.
Never relaxed.
Jumps on visitors. Every time.
Attacks the neighbor’s cat.
Poops on my floor (not always, but with some regularity)
Giant pain the rear.
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This morning, though, I heard my little girl say, “Oh, Belle… you’re the best pet in the world!”
This morning, though, I watched my kids in their pajamas run circles through the house with Belle chasing behind, her tail wagging as they played ‘tag’.
This morning, though, I smiled as somehow, her 80 pounds of craziness played tug with my two babies, and I listened to them both side by side belly laughing as she pulled them across the floor…. with an alert tail and nothing but gentleness in her graying face and paws.
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Oh, Belle. You’re something. Hardly a companion. Unable to walk on a leash. Never relaxed. Annoying to most everyone who enters our home.
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But, Belle. This morning, you reminded me exactly why none of that carries as much weight as it should.
You love my babies, you dumb dog. And that would really be the only deal breaker.
I think I’ll go buy you a treat today. But only a small one. Because I know you’ll eat anything else until you puke all over my house while I’m gone.
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