loveliness on a summer morn

Jun 23, 2014

Oh my, ten days without posting. Besides the fact (haha) that you are missing my words, it is entirely unhealthy for me to go that long without processing my thoughts through writing. Note to self: for a healthier psyche, write, write, write.

The sun is shining through my eastern window, filling my bedroom with fresh morning light. The sky is a radiant blue. The trees are full of cotton, which normally blows all around our yard like a soft-summer snowstorm, but this morning, in the stillness, the cotton hangs in the trees waiting for a breeze to release it. I hear the sprinklers shooting water all over the lawn, the chitch-chitch-chitch sounds of the rotating heads bringing order to my morning.

And all of this brings me hope. The morning comes. A new week is here with the promise of possibility. A clean slate waiting to be written upon.

This week I have a few goals.

• Remember to be a fun mom.
• Smile…a whole lot.
• Get outside every single day. I can’t even tell you how many days I have spent living in this house. In this bedroom. I need to soak the summer air into my soul.
• Figure out what classes I am teaching at iFamily (or not!)
• Make the iFamily schedule.
• Get the iFamily website done.
• Get my new business website done.
• Start a new read-aloud with Fisher and Annes…yes, we finally finished Hanne!
• Make a decision about gymnastics for this fall.
• Get my bedroom clean.
• Get Richard’s summer special for SimplyHealed on his website.
• Spend an hour every morning doing genealogy.
• Organize my new school basket with Fisher’s and Annesley’s daily learning materials.
• Spread joy.
• Introduce our Happy Jar.
• Rearrange and give the upstairs living areas a deep (overdue) spring cleaning.
• Finish reading My Name Used To Be Muhammed
• Find a location to hold my new classes on How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk.

 
My jaw is improving, I can eat soft foods instead of drinking everything. Talking doesn’t hurt as much as it did a few weeks ago. Smiling is still pretty painful and laughter really hurts, but I will gladly take this over the condition it was in three weeks ago. My ankle is improving, still taped, and still limping a bit, but it is not hurting as much. If no other injuries happen, I will be able to start riding my awesome Elliptigo in the next few weeks.

Blessings abound.