Its hard to blog sometimes in the winter. The days just seem to go by, one by one with nothing much to write about. At least nothing I feel is interesting enough to actually log on to write. Maybe its lazyness, when the kids go to bed I just want to use my brain as little as possible the rest of the evening.
Just a few things that happened this week that I thought were cute. We have spent as much time as we can outside, if the sun is shining, that is where you will find us, basking in the sweet warmth we have been longing for all winter. The kids are in their element outside, going from the sandbox to the garden, from the four wheelers to the back porch, from the slide to the swings, they are happy doing anything and everything as long as they are not in the constrains of the house. The warm days have been wonderful, the cold days in between the warm days have been long, oh so long. Its like they forget everything they played with and entertained themselves with all winter, and they have no idea what to do with themselves. "Play with Tractors, that was so last winter, we want to play in the mud and the freezing cold.."
Blake has been trying for the past week or 2 to climb up the back of the slide. Now this is a great slide, long and fast, with a few little speed bumps in the middle where Anthony had to spackle some holes and hasnt got around to grinding the excess off. He witnessed one of his little friends doing this wonderful trick, and has been working on it ever since. I was impressed as I watched him out the window to see his perserverance. So often he is quick to give up on things, coming to me complaining that he just cant do it and he needs my help. This was not the case this time, he tried and tried, day after day to run up this slide. He got halfway up for a while, and then would slide back down. A little bit further, and then the slide back down, all in his big yellow farm boots. The other day as I watched thru the kitchen window as Blake and Lexi played outside, I saw Blake finally reach the top of that old black slide. I wasnt close enough to see his smile, but I know he had to have felt really great to finally reach the top. When I asked him about it later, his face just lit up, he was so happy he had conquered the slide, and then he was off to do something else. I thought a bit about how often I want to give up on things, I try and try to do something, to be more generous or think more of others, or take more things to God instead of relying on myself, ....the list could go on and on. Even just little things, like making a purse, and I get hung up and dont know where to go next, so I store it away in the back of a drawer, not knowing when it will see the light of day again, all the things that I have such good intentions of doing, but they get hard and I run. I dont want to give up, I want to be a good example to my kids and keep running up that slide till I finally reach the top. Keep running to God for help, relying wholey on him to help me with decisions and choices. Dont know if that makes sense to anyone, it made sense to me that day as I worked it around in my brain, and I thought about how I need to persevere in all things, but especially in a closer relationship with God.
The other day I came home with a little suprise for the kids. A doctors kit from a 75% off consignment sale. They have had so much fun playing doctor on each other and their stuffed animals, and whatever prostate body that might be sneaking a nap on the kitchen floor. The other day Blake escaped out the back door with his little kit. Wondering why he was so quiet, I headed out several minutes later to investigate. I found him in the garage, a bowl of cat food piled high in front of "Stinky Dinky", and Blake with a measuring tape from his little kit checking out..something on the cat. I guess how long he was. =) As I watched, the stethescope came out and he listened for a heart beat.He must have found one because next came the thermometer, and Im not sure what he ended up doing with that, I snuck back inside, giggling under my breath. He told me later the cat wasnt feeling well, but he checked him out and he was feeling better now. =)
Tonite on the way home from church, Blake and Lexi were talking about what they did back in the back with the other kids. They played playdoh, watched a movie, ate crocodiles ( real ones!! so they said) and then Blake started talking about 'tricity. We were kinda lost on what he was saying, so after a few questions, he elaborated enough to help us out. "I turned the lights out in the bathroom at church, and I told Miss Mary about it, because it was wasting 'lectricity and then we wont have any money for lights and to watch tv and for water." How cute is that?!
And now if youve made it thru all the reading and rambling, here are some pictures..=)
Comments (4)
I find it easier to blog and keep up in the Winter, in the busy Summer is when I struggle to catch up with all I want to post. :)
Your "climbing the slides of life" story made me think too. I enjoyed reading it and need to apply a lot of things you talked about to my life as well.
Enjoyed the pictures! The Valentine's one looks so romantic. :)
Have a good weekend... the sun is going to shine again!!!! Love, Connie Sue
Oh, your posts are showing up on my page. Hopefully others will see that you blogged, I saw on FB or wouldn't have known.
Great "hearing" from you again!! Thanks to facebook, I know when you update. For some reason your updates don't show up under my "subscriptions" anymore.? Anyway, enjoyed all your pictures again! I love Lexi's braids ~ so cute! Oh yea, and don't forget to add a pg picture every now and then!! ;)