These were taken in March and I am just now getting to fall in love with them. I love so much their interactions with me and each other here. No posing except to say, “Make an Anna sandwich!”
Yesterday as I dropped Drew off at school and drove the back way home down sunny streets I felt so full and happy that this is my life. That they are my children. And that I get to be with them every single day. All of the normal things I do all day long are so very important to them, although they don’t realize it yet because they seem so ordinary. Not all days do I manage to remain so positive. Some days I wake up and wish I could just stay in bed because there are so many things to get done and so many personalities to manage. But once I finish the morning chores and they are at school I know I did the right thing by getting up and cutting those strawberries just so for Anna’s lunch. By helping Mckenna choose just the perfect necklace. (Or two. Or seven.) By hugging Nathan and telling him how awesome I think he is before we get in the car. By making Drew a surprise cup of hot cocoa on a cold morning he is walking to school, and putting it in a fancy coffee to go cup so he feels grown up and cool.
Everyday ordinary things that are so important. Don’t forget it – you are important too.
As I was thinking this, I was reminded of one of my favorite quotes:
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are… Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect Tomorrow. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in my pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.
- Mary Jean Iron
I have been in the position of wanting more than all the world the return of a normal day, I have dug my nails into the earth, and so I do everything I can to stay in this frame of mind. This quote was a wake up call to me once upon a time.
This must be simmering in me at the moment, because I also talked a bit about all of this in an interview posted on Davina Fear’s blog today in her Women and Business series. If you would like to read it, you can go here.
xo
Tara
PS – thank you all for joining me here, as I make it through day after day of normal.
by Tara Whitney
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