Posts tagged ‘Life’

*This is a LONG one!

This is the ongoing battle I have with myself and motherhood.
Life seems to be made up of way too many fine lines.
But there is one line that I feel is razor thin and every day I am re-adjusting, tightening, falling off or some months struggling when it just snaps right in half.
It’s not so good when [...]

I am trying hard to get life to slow down. I know it can’t be like this everyday.  Quite possibly, I don’t even know the level of busy my life will become because of my kids.  At the same time I just feel the urge in me to Calm Down, Slow Down, Breathe, JUST BE.
I want to have some morning with nowhere [...]

I heard a new cry today that broke my heart.
My oldest has joined the crowd of girls who run from one house to another along the street, switching houses every 30 minutes.
My youngest just BEAMED when they were in our house. She thought they had come to play with her! She squealed with delight, talked her [...]

There has been a motherhood instinct in me that came immediately after giving birth. To protect. To protect my girls even when my family doesn’t understand, when others find it silly or even when I don’t completely understand it. But there is something in you that starts speaking to you, leads you to decisions, even [...]

There has been a change in our schedule here in my home that has me scrambling to get things done and keep sane. I am in the “in between” phase, where I am trying my hardest to get everything done but really need to sit down and once again come up with a new “Time [...]

We spent two whole hours the other day jumping into oceans of pillows off of the couch.
The girls tried to do this when their Daddy was home, and I
acted just as appalled as he was! The nerve of those
cute kiddos. Such cute little terrors.
It was pure joy blasting NewFoundGlory (from 8 years ago, mind you- [...]

My thoughts have me worried today. I keep on trying to push them out of my mind, trying to search for some silly catalyst that might have brought them to the surface. I most definitely do not want to face the reality that they are promptings, important decisions we need to start talking about now.
I [...]