Catching up:
Posted on | January 10, 2010 | 9 Comments
Doing: Whoa, it’s been one heck of a couple of weeks with both kiddos underfoot. Lots of sledding and cookie baking and general revelry. Not enough writing though. Or painting. Or time without the ruckus, giddy, non-stop noise making of two small boys.
Speaking of: Sprout is standing and almost walking. He’s thisclose. He’s hilarious. He plays hide and seek. He initiates chase games around the house and crawls pell-mell at top speed, then bursts into adorable peels of laughter. I tried to teach him to paint a few days ago–because I did with Bean at around this age, and it was an utter disaster. He ATE the brushes and got so frustrated when I’d take them out of his hand and try to turn them around so the bristles went on the paper. So not his thing.
Bean on the other hand is totally into drawing. He makes airplanes and houses with doorbells wired in to the walls. Tonight he drew a picture of our cat stalking mice. Each mouse had a lovely, loopy, curly tail. I can’t really believe that he is almost five and suddenly all cool and adorable: a big+little mashup. Yesterday he said, “When I’m big I’m gonna build robots. I’m going to design one to be a remote control that I control–and then another robot that the first robot controls.” He’s like that. Totally coming up with the coolest things ever. An engineer in the making.
Reading: it’s been haphazard at best this week. Mostly about the end of the world as we know it. Which really is rather unsettling . Though not entirely hopeless. I’m already thinking of what my garden will look like this spring.
Wishing for: a few solid hunks of time I can call MY OWN to get things crossed off the to-do list and sink back into writing and creating and feeling like myself again.
Eating: I’ve perfected pizza dough and a really great bread recipe. I’ll share both, but not tonight. Somehow it’s bedtime already. Where did the day go?
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Wondering tonight: what do you worry about? What are your greatest fears–the big, worst-case-scenario ones…and the little ones that nag and gnaw?
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January 10th, 2010 @ 4:21 am
Biggest fears: Earthquakes, trees coming down on my bedroom in a storm, my baby’s stroller rolling into traffic, someone sneaking into my house and stealing my baby. Fears have multiplied since having a child!
January 10th, 2010 @ 5:13 am
I agree with Leah–fears seem constant when you have a child! When I expressed some fears to my midwife during my first pregnancy she said, “Worry is the work of motherhood.” Never forgot that. Big worries–financial (never getting back on solid ground again), spiritual (ditto). Constant nagging–marital (um…ditto), child-rearing (always churning about making the right decisions).
January 10th, 2010 @ 2:46 pm
Greatest fears: abandonment, something happening to the ones I love. The death of the Internet (haaa!)
January 10th, 2010 @ 3:07 pm
Thanks for the two links about Monsanto and organic seeds—I’m very interested in that sort of thing. Gardening around here has been put on hold this year and I’ve dearly missed my tomatoes this season.
Fears—not being happy at what I’m doing, being ‘stuck’ basically, not having money for the big emergencies, etc etc. We’re about to do a big life change for six months and the reality is hitting me now.
January 10th, 2010 @ 3:25 pm
My kids went back to school last Monday and it was so nice to get back into the routine. I am still far behind, but am choosing to not focus on that. I am focusing on two or three things a day. My fears are financial, but I try not to think about that…when I do, I begin to hyperventilate. I also have that fear of being “stuck” like Misti. I need to find a job, and it just stops me in my tracks because I haven’t “played the game” in so long and I am not sure that I want to. The most common fear is offending someone, or being judged or not liked. Can you say PATHETIC? But, you asked!
January 10th, 2010 @ 7:27 pm
mostly i worry that i am moving too fast- both physically and emotionally
January 11th, 2010 @ 12:55 am
reading: THe Girl with the DRagon Tatoo.
Eating: pesto chicken pizza (eatbetteramerica.com)
Wishing for: UGG boots, for my brain to work! ha!
tara
January 13th, 2010 @ 1:09 am
worrying that our debt is too much …
January 13th, 2010 @ 12:15 pm
wow! so much has changed since i last came here. welcome to the world sprout
and congrats mama!
my biggest fear is not doing all those things i want to do before i die and not having the courage to pursue those things i want to pursue.
wishing for… a plane ticket to iceland to see my lover again.