My son is still up. I put him to bed a WHILE ago. It's summer and we're all pretty lax about the routine. Don't worry it will be back in place way sooner than we want it to be.
Earlier - I was trying to talk to my sister on the phone. About sisterly stuff. And my kids somehow all gravitated to where I was trying to be alone. I looked at them and listened intently to her story and thought - ugh - I should have put them to bed first. Now I'm stuck. I finally had to beg off the phone and submit to bedtime routine at least.
Because as tempting as it seemed to dump the responsibility off on my husband and continue my conversation. . . he is finishing his homework that he didn't get to yesterday because. . .well see below.
My kids are so dang cute. I could be bias, but I don't know any little boy cuter or sweeter than mine and girls so beautiful and heart warming. They tackled me with kisses and wouldn't stop til I tickled them off.
How did they grow up so fast? Where has the time fled? Why does it have to go so fast? When I was a kid - summer was FOREVER! I loved the LONG break and playing outside all day long. The days were long then too. I remember finding it ridiculous to go to bed before the sun went down. Probably why I haven't bothered trying to keep up with the regular schedule with my kids.
The days are soooo LONG. The sun just doesn't want to disapear. I'm sure they have great ways of dealing with this in Alaska - but we're in Texas here. And even though the days are long - the summer is already half over. Maybe my laziness is my way of trying to slow it DOWN. Didn't work - a week has already disappeared and we still haven't completely unpacked the van.
But I digress. So teaching primary today, one of my kiddos asked if we could just take a break today. Irony was that we were discussing the ten virgins and how we need to be prepared for the second coming. So obviously we can't take a break. THAT would totally contradict the point of the lesson. But I get it. It's summer. Lazy, hazy dayz of summer. Where you just don't want to do anything at all because you know that before too long, you're going to be fully swung into the middle of chaos and not enough time to fit it all in.
Right now - I'm content to be lazy. . .
Until yesterday. . . I was thinking it had been a whole week of nothing but curling up with a good book and being completely unable to think of a single necessary thing to do. And feeling like I needed to pull myself out of the slump and get busy actually DOING something productive. That's when I decided it was time to straighten up some things around the house and rearrange furniture. Unfortunately, this required some rewiring of certain electronic gadgets. Not my expertise although I offered to give it a go. My husband reluctantly joined in. He complained that all week I've done nothing and NOW I get a cleaning bug? I asked him if he'd prefer I dropped everything and returned to my book. Not a chance.
We got one room done. Now for tackling the garage. Oh darn - it's gonna have to wait til after my hair appt in Houston tomorrow. . . I wish I didn't actually have to drive to get there. That would be nice. To blink my way to places I want to be. I've been waiting for that invention my whole life.
So much for being productive.
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