4. Giggles for Gracie
So it’s been a while… what can I say, life just takes off running and it is up to yourself to catch up with it or be left behind. It has been plenty of months and so much has gone down. All my children seem to just be growing up so fast and all I can do is watch them fly by. Next thing you know they’ll hate me and believe I’m ruining their lives… oh but wait a few of them already think that! As much as I know that I have no control over it I just wish they would stay young forever.
Today after dance practice Ella went over to her friend Molly’s house for dinner. She put up such a fight about it, about how if she doesn’t get to go it will ruin her life and Molly will never talk to her again. And while I get where this is coming from, being a teenager a few years back myself, the idea of hearing what I had to say just wasn’t important. After she listened and understood my reasoning for politeness and asked me politely she was granted permission. Ella definitely knows how to cake on the drama, it is quite amazing actually. Hayden is reading this book right now about Katherine of Aragon or as she likes to say Catalina Infanta of Spain. We girls went to Books a Million this past weekend and she had to have it and she hasn’t put the book down yet other than to shower and brush her teeth. Our rule about no reading at the dinner table is the only reason she doesn’t read there while eating as well. But I can’t blame her; if I could sit around all day reading when not busy I would do so in a heartbeat. I remember my days, when I was younger, or should I say pre- children. I used to do anything to get to just have the time to read and let the world around me disappear. Nothing else mattered, just me and my book. I had turned my closet into a library, books and their shelves lining the walls; pretty much all my clothes would have to be folded and put in drawers. Addie is in the kitchen as we speak waiting for the timer to go off. She had a recipe in hand when she got home from school, blueberry cheesecake. A huge smile on her face she handed the recipe to me and said I think we have everything it needs, can I get the kitchen ready? All I could do is smile and shake my head yes. She is something else.
Both of my boys are at their grams’ house tonight. She picked them up so that tomorrow she can bring them to school and out for breakfast. It will be so weird not to have them here for their normal morning before school routine. It feels like an empty household right now. For supper we will be four bodies short. Jack is in Virginia on a business trip, Ella is a Molly’s, and Nate and Willy is at Grams’ place; I think I will let Addie come up with a quick and easy supper tonight. She’ll be so excited to do it and it will give her the chance to experiment. In her eyes a gift all by it’s self. Gwen and Gracie are watching Veggie Tales and singing along. Gracie is laughing so hard that Gwen keeps asking her if she is okay. Which just makes Gwen laugh as well; it is such a wonderful sight. Happiness… some days it just seems so rare and others few and farther between it just seems like nothing else really exists. I wish we could all have more days like that when there really doesn’t seem like there is a reason not to be happy.
Jack gets home on Sunday 9/14/08 from Virginia. Hopefully in time for church, it would be nice being as Hayden has a solo in one of the songs they are singing in church choir Sunday. I just hope he is back in time, she has been practicing so hard and she is so excited. I know she would be completely surprised if he was there; she wouldn’t be able to stop smiling.
Uh oh… I heard something fall in the kitchen… I better go check that out. Mom… and I am needed. Until next time… ej
Today after dance practice Ella went over to her friend Molly’s house for dinner. She put up such a fight about it, about how if she doesn’t get to go it will ruin her life and Molly will never talk to her again. And while I get where this is coming from, being a teenager a few years back myself, the idea of hearing what I had to say just wasn’t important. After she listened and understood my reasoning for politeness and asked me politely she was granted permission. Ella definitely knows how to cake on the drama, it is quite amazing actually. Hayden is reading this book right now about Katherine of Aragon or as she likes to say Catalina Infanta of Spain. We girls went to Books a Million this past weekend and she had to have it and she hasn’t put the book down yet other than to shower and brush her teeth. Our rule about no reading at the dinner table is the only reason she doesn’t read there while eating as well. But I can’t blame her; if I could sit around all day reading when not busy I would do so in a heartbeat. I remember my days, when I was younger, or should I say pre- children. I used to do anything to get to just have the time to read and let the world around me disappear. Nothing else mattered, just me and my book. I had turned my closet into a library, books and their shelves lining the walls; pretty much all my clothes would have to be folded and put in drawers. Addie is in the kitchen as we speak waiting for the timer to go off. She had a recipe in hand when she got home from school, blueberry cheesecake. A huge smile on her face she handed the recipe to me and said I think we have everything it needs, can I get the kitchen ready? All I could do is smile and shake my head yes. She is something else.
Both of my boys are at their grams’ house tonight. She picked them up so that tomorrow she can bring them to school and out for breakfast. It will be so weird not to have them here for their normal morning before school routine. It feels like an empty household right now. For supper we will be four bodies short. Jack is in Virginia on a business trip, Ella is a Molly’s, and Nate and Willy is at Grams’ place; I think I will let Addie come up with a quick and easy supper tonight. She’ll be so excited to do it and it will give her the chance to experiment. In her eyes a gift all by it’s self. Gwen and Gracie are watching Veggie Tales and singing along. Gracie is laughing so hard that Gwen keeps asking her if she is okay. Which just makes Gwen laugh as well; it is such a wonderful sight. Happiness… some days it just seems so rare and others few and farther between it just seems like nothing else really exists. I wish we could all have more days like that when there really doesn’t seem like there is a reason not to be happy.
Jack gets home on Sunday 9/14/08 from Virginia. Hopefully in time for church, it would be nice being as Hayden has a solo in one of the songs they are singing in church choir Sunday. I just hope he is back in time, she has been practicing so hard and she is so excited. I know she would be completely surprised if he was there; she wouldn’t be able to stop smiling.
Uh oh… I heard something fall in the kitchen… I better go check that out. Mom… and I am needed. Until next time… ej