Do go out with all of your children. Enjoy the weather and your community pool. Interact with the neighbors.
Don’t leave your keys at home, thinking oh I don’t need them, lest your two year old runs back home before the rest of you and locks you out!
Then you will not have to hear the impish laugh behind the locked door, “Mommy you are locked out! hahahahahah” Rest assured, there is little coxing that will persuade a 2 year old to open the door when he knows he has the upper hand. Be sure to have a tricky 6 year old handy in this event who knows how to disarm said 2 year old and claim victory for a weary Mom!
Oh yes these are Good Times People!
Here is a beautiful post on how to Learn to play piano on a shoestring over at Lindafay’s blog. It is very inspiring. I am a “do it yourselfer” so this really got me thinking about the viability of really teaching your kids to play piano. I studied violin and piano for 8 years growing up at huge expense to my parents. I loved it and it is so much a part of who I am now. I have wanted that for our children and her post gave me the confidence to give it a go. Isn’t blogging a beautiful thing!
I just finished reading “I capture the Castle” by Dodie Smith. It was a delightful read and worth the time. The main Character, Cassandra told the story through her journal entries. They were the way she taught herself to write. It was her process. I was thinking of the earlier quote I left from Study in Brown and thinking a bit about blogging. This is my process “live and in color”. It helps me think out loud. I have journaled off and on for the past 15 years and it is always interesting and amazing to go back through what I have written. I can read something I wrote 10 years ago and almost remember what room I was sitting in the moment I wrote it. It brings me right back to that place. I find that very fascinating. It is also fun to see how I have grown or changed.
So I have been wondering, can a person be really “in tune” with what is going on in their life if they are not processing it in some “creative” way. Painting, poetry. writing, reading something thought provoking……something that expresses what is going on inside in an external form? If it stays inside….and not processed through do we experience the depth of what could of been……or just the surface stuff? Those are my thoughts at 5 am today.
In other news, I feel God “stirring” something in me. I started feeling it on Monday. I am not quite sure what it is yet. I am a feeler first. Anyone else like that? I feel it first and then it takes me some time to get the words for it. So I am taking note of it here. It kind of feels like when you smell a “hint” of something in the air, that is somehow familiar and comforting. Like someone cooking something good several houses down, and you need to stop and wait a moment for your brain to catch up and remind you of what it is and why the smell is comforting to you. That is what it feels like. So today, I am stopping and listening, and wondering, and mostly waiting on God.
What are you waiting on God for?