hi.
today while the big girls were all out of the house, anna fell asleep in my arms on the couch. i dozed off for a little while, and when i woke up, the house was so still and the light was pouring in. i lay there, hoping not to wake her, looking around at our livingroom and out of the windows, and listening to the sounds the house makes when we are not drowning them out.
it was cold and grey this weekend, but today there is sun. not a warm sun, but what it does to the floors and the tabletops when it streams into the house, what it does to the tips of bare branches and piles of damp leaves and forgotten pale grass, is quite beautiful.
i know that we have at least two months of winter left, but this light is messing with my head. it's making me want warm sun and new leaves again. i don't even want to hope for those things, now. i truly want to savor the cold, get snowed in. i've got more soup to make, and more early nights and slow mornings in me. i've got more patience stored up for winter, but i don't have much affection for this big tease.
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so, this much i had written this afternoon, when the girls were home, and there was a ballet class being conducted in the basement; full dress rehearsal. and then some movement upwards towards the kitchen, and then a slam. silence. screaming.
yep.
we are home now, from the emergency room. anna, the amazing champion that she is, has four new stitches in her chin and is sleeping soundly with her daddy and one of her sisters. our dinner was had at 9:45pm...bread, and fried ham, and leftover brussel sprouts, and soup from last night's dinner with nana & pop.
she is a celebrity in her own home, and she took the attention quite graciously.
but i'm glad they're all asleep, now. today is the sort of day that you need time to digest, alone.
today was long and trying, way before the trip to the e.r.
but i think we will all look back on tonight and remember it as one of our sweetest times.
yep. i've been a parent today for thirteen years, five months, and ten days. it's funny which of those days i end up remembering the most.
more tomorrow. thanks for reading.
tt
posted by Tara Thayer at
10:27 PM
6 Comments:
and do you wonder if the same days and moments that you remember will be the ones that the girls remember too? i do. but at the same time, i find it highly unlikely.
What a little trooper. Hope she gets to show them off around the neighborhood soon! And may it heal quickly.
first, I know those days when dinner is served after 9pm....
I was on a walk yesterday and we actually saw bushes with leaves about to bud, it has been that mild here. I expect we will see some colder days yet, and everything will go into shock.
I too, long for spring am not especially enjoying the tease of warm weather.
so very true
your household sounds like a good mix of calm and activity.
we have a major tease of warm weather here but i'm wanting snow instead.
oh goodness - poor thing - 4 stitches is quite a lot.
it is amazing how a family can come together in those times.
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