Good morning, it is Sunday and my family is at church. I am not obviously. I got up when they left and scrubbed out the shower. There are just some chores that I feel more capable of doing when the house is silent. I am not sure why. How has the first seven days of this brand new year been for you? Did you make resolutions? Are you on holidays? Are you frantically packing for a move? Are you prepping for a new baby or some sort of surgery or change of some sort? Or are you just at home day after day living life? No drama, nothing big coming up, just living.
I think I am choosing to be thankful to say that at this moment I am just home living my ordinary life. Every day I get up and start fielding requests. Whether it is for a certain type of breakfast, help with something, questions about things...I am needed. I try to shower at some point to wake up a little, make sure everyone has eaten something, try to make sure hands have been washed, teeth brushed and it is all mundane and little tasks. We then either need to head out the door for an appointment or start school or I need to get the mountain of laundry started and dishes going. I can see even right now how much easier this is getting. Everyone has gained the capacity to sleep through the night and that is a mountain I was not sure we could ever climb. Almost everyone can wipe their own bums and some can even shower by themselves. When we go out the door I can almost guarantee three children will be wearing shoes and I am only responsible for making sure one has them on. There are many other things the children are capable of now that they have never been before. Yay!!
I went to a movie ~ The Greatest Showman. While I was waiting in the line up there were these three boys in front of me. I'd guess they were between fourteen and sixteen. One of them was taller than the other two, very thin, wearing nice jeans but runners with them and had glasses. I had this moment of feeling like that was my boy in front of me. The lady that was with me commented almost at the same moment about how one day that would be my reality. My son is turning eleven in a couple weeks and he is almost as tall as me now. I don't have much longer before he is looking way down at me from a towering height. He still asks me to read to him before bed and snuggles into me.
The Greatest Showman was a movie that is best seen in theater. It was a good reminder that dreams are rich in wonder and that love and hope together are almost unstoppable. I am so thankful I started off the year by watching that movie. If you are just starting out on this mothering journey 2018 might be long and tiring. It will be filled with many hugs and smiles and laughter and the cutest moments possible. It will be filled with a lot of other things that stretch you to your very limit. You will come out of it better if you choose to. I promise. Go watch The Greatest Showman if you can or listen to its sound track on YouTube. Be encouraged that whatever stage of life you are in you can keep going. That there is still so much you can give to the world. It doesn't have to be anything monumental or showy but your kindness and gentleness will bless anyone you meet. That is just how it goes!
Have a great month of January living your every day life. I have got some dental appointments (for a certain anxious ten year old) coming up which are usually a cause for drama AND his birthday. We are going to the aquarium for his birthday which is very special. Every day I will be either at home teaching or serving or I will be out and about driving children to their various activities. When I am not doing any of those things I lie in bed and read or write or look at Instagram. I long for quiet moments or a day off and all through this my mind tells me my blessings and the view out my window praises it's artist and I am thankful for the chance to live out this 2018 year.
Happy New Year!!
xo
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