I started this post earlier in the week and didn’t post it. Not sure why. It feels like marker in the sand stuff. Anyway….
The photo above is super blurred – that’s because it’s a zoom in from my phone. It’s of my biggest chilling and hanging out on the climbing frame. The smaller one is attempting to climb the slide with his best friend swinging from him legs to prevent him doing it…..
I feel like I need to rename this blog – to become “We’re not in Kansas anymore” …. That’s what I feel most of my posts are documenting these days. Change, progress, growth, moving on, moving up and evolution.
Today is a perfect example. The boys and I are hanging out at home because it’s half term. We’ve been alternating at home – Lovely Bloke and I, with his shifts for childcare and work. And we’ve also been juggling childcare with friends – it’s worked fairly well. I’m watching them play outside – our biggest hanging around, casually, at the top of the climbing frame that just five minutes ago, needed to be caught at the bottom of the slide. The other one, who is growing quicker than I know what to do with, scrambles across the monkey bars and rope nets and I wonder how it’s come to be – I remember him needing help to get his legs up each step of the climbing rungs. But it’s not so much of the physical for me. I think it’s more of the hanging around chatting, the mutual chilling out.
As I type, they’ve run past me to come in and watch TV. They are arguing with my decision that they can’t watch Harry Potter films – and especially not the ones which are 12A and 12 categories! Parenting – the biggest challenge, the most frustrating and by far the most rewarding and best decision I’ve ever made in my life.
Except for the number of times each day I have to say “finger out of your nose”… That bit’s a touch annoying…
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