We’re 2 down and 3 to go on days for Thanksgiving break. Not that I’m counting or anything. The weather has been wonderful (until tonight’s rain) so yesterday and today the kids were able to play outside with the other neighborhood kids from the time they finished their chores until the sun started to fade, which always makes for peaceful days :)
We normally do Family Movie Night on Saturdays (which we did last weekend as usual) but since no one has school this week, we did a repeat last night since Briyana went to a sleepover at her friend’s house — except I watched while I worked instead of sitting in the living room giving it my undivided attention like I do on weekends with them.
This morning Avalyn woke up and cleaned up the house… Yes, my SIX year old. Swept and everything. You should have seen her :) She was SO proud of herself! Now if only I could get the older three to take pride in their work like that. Apparently none of the girls at the sleepover Briyana went to got any sleep last night and by the time she made it home this evening after leaving the mall around 7, she literally went straight from the front door to her room and she was unconscious within 60 seconds.
Tomorrow we’ll be getting laundry done and I’ll be working most of the day; nothing new there. We already did Thanksgiving before Barry left so I won’t be cooking again this week but my plan is to take them out to eat for a Thanksgiving meal so that should be fun :) Time flies by so fast and when things are as chaotic as they stay around here, you normally welcome new moments, hoping they’ll be calmer, but it’s times like this when I’m sitting here alone, in silence with nothing but the tapping of the keyboard and the sound of thoughts bouncing around in my mind that I wish I could hold onto a few of these moments — get them back to savor them during moments that aren’t filled with chaos and noise.
Life passes us by so swiftly, without regard to how much work I have to do or the mood that I’m in. I’m learning to learn to embrace every moment, chaotic or not… because life is so fleeting and it seems every time I start to reminisce, another year or two has passed and there are so many things I didn’t take the time to truly enjoy.
Tonight, on the second night of Thanksgiving break, I’m #WINNING (lol)… Why? Because I know what I have. I know how valuable everything and everyone in my life is. I recognize the worth of it all. I love hard. I stare long. I sigh short breaths of peaceful bliss… and then move on to the next moment — getting merely a glimpse of it before it, too, passes by and makes me a memory.
#NaBloPoMo:
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I feel the same baby! Everyday I’m away i think of you and how time has passed and we are still happily together. I also love hard and I feel like a winner.
*smile*