Family: May 2008 Archives
'Somedays aren't yours at all,
They come and go
As if they're someone else's days' - Regina Spektor, Somedays
Today was the last day of the Avondvierdaagse (four day walk with the kids, written about previously here and here).
I didn't walk this time because of the injury from my car accident, but I served coffee and drinks on the first day and I took pictures today.
Taking pictures is weird sometimes. I read a story once about photographs, or perhaps it was an excerpt from a book. The woman who wrote it had a miserable childhood but if you looked at the photos it seemed perfect. 'Picture perfect' is a wonderful expression, isn't it?
I hope mine don't just have a picture perfect life but a life that's just good, in pictures and out.
Here are my babies being picture perfect. I hope they remember days like these.
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.
