the holiday
I'm watching The Holiday on DVD right now as I write this. I've just had a holiday too, a mommy-holiday.
My boys came back today from three weeks away in the US. It's been pretty odd actually. I missed them, but at the same time I kind of slipped back into the role of being a single person and it was nice! No chores, no running to and fro, only myself to take care of. I love my kids, but it was incredibly liberating to just be me for a few weeks, and not be someone's mom. From today I'm two little people's mommy again and I'm just as happy to be back in my mommy role. It's a role I've held for a really long time. Soon I'll have been a mom for longer in my life than I've not been a mom, how weird is that?
So they're bigger (in three weeks!) and browner and they talk with American accents. They also forgot how to ask to leave the table, seem to have lost their volume control mechanics, and are so full of E numbers they glow in the dark, but they're home and they're my babies and I love them so much.
Otherwise, how do I feel? I feel a bit like I'm in the cinema. I've watched the trailer for the film I'm about to watch and now I'm in the interlude waiting for it to start. I'm not sure of the genre of the movie but I'm hoping it's an epic love story. A Merchant-Ivory production with a happy ending. I'm as curious as you are to see how it all unfolds.
My boys came back today from three weeks away in the US. It's been pretty odd actually. I missed them, but at the same time I kind of slipped back into the role of being a single person and it was nice! No chores, no running to and fro, only myself to take care of. I love my kids, but it was incredibly liberating to just be me for a few weeks, and not be someone's mom. From today I'm two little people's mommy again and I'm just as happy to be back in my mommy role. It's a role I've held for a really long time. Soon I'll have been a mom for longer in my life than I've not been a mom, how weird is that?
So they're bigger (in three weeks!) and browner and they talk with American accents. They also forgot how to ask to leave the table, seem to have lost their volume control mechanics, and are so full of E numbers they glow in the dark, but they're home and they're my babies and I love them so much.
Otherwise, how do I feel? I feel a bit like I'm in the cinema. I've watched the trailer for the film I'm about to watch and now I'm in the interlude waiting for it to start. I'm not sure of the genre of the movie but I'm hoping it's an epic love story. A Merchant-Ivory production with a happy ending. I'm as curious as you are to see how it all unfolds.
