I love it when life slows down for a minute and allows for some unexpected fun. I love the spontaneous memories you make with your kids on days like these. I knew the minute I looked out my window that morning it was going to be a great day!
No one will read this post, nor should they. As these picture were taken - as my children played in the snow and my wife photographed and blogged about them - I was shoveling snow from a school driveway in Oak Cliff, carrying a wheel-chair bound 6th grader three blocks through the snow and guns and gangstas to her mother's car, and listening to teachers (under umbrellas) asking when they could go home. By the time I got home on this night, T & E were asleep, and all that waited up for me were bills I still can't pay. Sara's right...thank God for a change of seasons.
I have wanted to be a mother all my life. From childhood on I can recall pretending, imagining, reading and wondering about motherhood. My mother always told me that she loved being pregnant, that she always felt so great during pregnancy. And I have been wondering which part was so great? Was it the heartburn, or the hemorrhoids, or the insomnia, or headaches, or lets see what about the constipation, wetting your pants just a little when you laugh and sneeze, hair loss, weight gain, stretch marks, belly itching, vomiting, nausea, or the actual task of pushing something the size of a basketball out of a hole the size of a dime?
Hmmm...I still can't figure it out. All I know is that I love it too.
Now I am blessed with two of my own, Tucker (7) and Elizabeth (5). One day Tucker (my literal child) asked me where he was before he was born. I explained, "I carried you in my tummy until you were ready to come out and then the doctor helped get you out of my tummy so we could hold you and take care of you and you could grow to be a big boy".
He thought about this for a long time.
"Oh" he said, "then I just slid down and came out the shoot!"
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Great photos!!
No one will read this post, nor should they. As these picture were taken - as my children played in the snow and my wife photographed and blogged about them - I was shoveling snow from a school driveway in Oak Cliff, carrying a wheel-chair bound 6th grader three blocks through the snow and guns and gangstas to her mother's car, and listening to teachers (under umbrellas) asking when they could go home. By the time I got home on this night, T & E were asleep, and all that waited up for me were bills I still can't pay. Sara's right...thank God for a change of seasons.
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