This week felt a little rough. I feel like I'm being properly prepared for the talk I am giving on Sunday. Last week I totally felt the light guiding me. This week I am feeling the trudge through the desert dark and far. I keep remembering December is hard. Depression runs in my family, and it especially rears its head when light in the northern hemisphere is scant. Add that to a long to-do list, hormone fluctuations, a sprained ankle and not quite enough sleep and it explains fairly well what is a repeating lesson for me about this time of year. And Griff and Eve are echoing the refrain!
And yet, as I go back through the things that were fun enough to take pictures of, I am reminded that the stars were there all along. I'm so glad I have this blog to make me turn back and look for them.
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| Eve still fits in the dryer. She is 9 and it is a big dryer. |
We had so much fun bringing friends to the Ice Terrace and the Giving Machines!
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| Me and my love in what looks like a Hallmark movie set. (Crown Center is owned by Hallmark) |
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| Girls' party! Without me. Dang! |
Yesterday was a doozy. We had way too many things on the calendar but everything turned out fine. Great even.
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| Griff playing in a football game for the first time! His look reminds me of a LHS Alan. |
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| Eve finds so many fun things! |
I also
-scheduled a massage with Charity
-visited a new mom whose first month as a mom is making the hardest first months I have seen look like a walk in the park
-had an awesome podcast club
-had a dear friend offer to take over for me tomorrow when I have my procedure.
Remembering these things helps me have some faith that things will work out even though we are so much of a mess we couldn't even handle the second hour of church today.
Please remember to pray for Dr. Yetter.
Ok. It’s Tuesday. I hope your procedure went alright. Hang in there! Maybe a sun replacement lamp could help you through dark winters. I love seeing how your kids do stuff and like it. The Christmas lights and ice skating and picture of you with Alan make me so happy. I prayed for the pastor and his daughter. May peace exist alongside of grief.
ReplyDeleteEve in the dryer made my day. It's also a funny way to start your blog post. We tie our children up at times and you put them in the dryer. See? We're not so different!
ReplyDeleteI'm struggling too. I even had an outburst the other day and one near outburst at school. (I pictured myself so clearly saying something terrible to a student that I wondered later if I had really done it!) I agree about the sun. And sleep.
I loved the picture of Griffin playing football too! How wonderful to see a tiny Alan doing fun athletic things. You're so good about accounting for all the things. I need to keep a better journal so that I can do a better accounting. Maybe it will help me through this winter.