Every morning while they eat their breakfast, I read to my children. Today found us reading the story of the fall of Jericho in the Old Testament. It always amazes me how wide-eyed they become even though they know the story by heart. Bear laughs at the absurdity of marching around a city to make its walls fall down, but he always claps when they do. Afterward, I pressed the boys on what they learned.
Today’s life lessons from Asher?
Prepare yourselves for an extremely random post. Just a few tidbits of our days together…
1. Yesterday we went to a wedding. All of us. It was classy, tasteful, breathtaking and refreshingly worshipful, full of poetry readings and quotations, Bach Cantatas, dancing the Virginia Reel, all with a genteel southern flair. My Bella was enraptured and I watched her stare at sweet Charlotte in awe all throughout the day. Before tucking her in bed, she threw her arms around me and sighed, “Miss Chahlotte is the most beautifulest bwide evah! I just can’t stop thinking about her pwetty dwess and her hay-ah (hair) and her smile, and I weally like Mr. Adam. *sighs* Oh, Mommy, I just love love.” Oh, Bella-girl, I really love love, too. But I’m going to really miss sweet Charlotte girl…
Summer has been amazing. And while I can be just a wee bit prone to exaggeration, amazing really is an understatement.
I can’t even begin to describe what it has been like to no longer be a bystander in my home and to live life out and about with my family again. I told several people that if all I did all summer was spend time with my family I was okay with that. And that’s what I did. Lots of family time. Lots of catching up and diving in and finding strength and joy and love and rediscovering who my children and husband are.
“Hey, Bella Boo, you ready to go pick up the boys?”
“Just you and me, Mommy?”
“Yep, just some cute girl and me.”
“Just this cute girl and you, Mommy?”
“Yep, just some beautiful girl and me.”
“Just this beautiful girl and you, Mommy?”
“Yes, baby girl, just us.”
“Oh, yes. Just us. I like being just us, Mommy. Just beautiful us.”
Yes, baby girl. I like us, too. It’s beautiful.
Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605
He went to school this morning looking like this.
The Tooth Fairy? Well, she had to ask Asher what the going rate for teeth is in our house, because as he put it, “Mom, you get chemo brain a lot, don’t you?” Then the Tooth Fairy had to raid Bella’s piggy bank for 2 bucks because all she had was a ten. (Is there any magic left in this house?!)
Yep, two teeth in one day. His first ones.