January Happenings

I've been keeping a little list in my head of all these things I was going to blog about each week, but never got around too.  So, I've complied the list and here is a shortened version:

I managed to drop a brand new gallon of milk onto my tile kitchen floor....yeah....it burst open and started spewing milk all over.  Of course I had to leave to go get Quickyn from preschool five minutes ago.  I quickly laid towels down and then Oden and I rushed to go pick her up.  I got home and had to mop that whole section of the floor. 

While I was mopping Oden found his safety scissors and started cutting up some paper.  I don't mind this because it is good practice for those motor skills.  So I get into cleaning the floor and the walls (yes, it got on the walls too) and then Oden comes up and says, "Mommy, my socks are in pieces."   

Ice rain!  We had ice rain for a few days around the middle of the month.  Bill got up to drive to work and he said the rain would hit his windshield and immediately turn into ice!  He was going about 30 the whole way and used up all his wiper fluid to get there.  We've also had more snow than we have ever seen since moving here.  Bill shoveled the driveway a whopping total of 1 time last winter.  This winter we are already up to 8.  It would be more, but when the freezing rain hit it wasn't worth trying to shovel frozen snow.

Poor Bill, he also drove to work when a big snow storm hit us this last Sunday/Monday.  He has to climb up a pretty steep hill right next to the school to get to the parking lot.  He turned up the hill and couldn't make it and started slipping backward.  But, luckily a guy with a big truck was turning up behind him and carefully pulled up to his bumper and pushed him up the hill.  He was so relieved.  When he called me I asked him why he didn't have it in 4 wheel drive.  He forgot about that.  I don't know much about 4 wheel drive.  Maybe it wouldn't have helped him all that much anyway. 

I love being married to a science geek!  Bill had our entire kitchen counter taken over with electrical "stuff" and potatoes last night.  He was making circuits with potatoes.  His potatoe clock didn't work, but it looks like it is 20 years old.  Then he took the clock apart to find out why it didn't work and got into explaining liquid crystal displays.  I was so tired I don't think I understood half of it, but he sure was fascinated. 

Other than those fun little things we've been widdling away the time stuck inside with organizing, sewing, crafting, and playing. The kids have covered our kitchen windows with hearts and love to create valentines.  What kids doesn't love the holidays! 



Superman and Princess Aurora
writing "secret messages"

Making Valentines




Sweet Oden

Snow!

I love this time of year because things slow down for me until about mid March.  I am enjoying having time to work on some projects and not feel rushed.  Here's to a cold, and somewhat peaceful start to the New Year! 

When Time Slows

Children should be active and energetic.  Mine are!  In fact, sometimes I think they are extremely energetic.  Especially my Quickyn.  If Quickyn could be an equation she would look like this:

Q = 1 w/ns

 

Which translates:  Quickyn equals one wiggle per nano-second.

 

 

You should try having her sit in your lap sometime.  It would make perfect sense after that.  Oden is crazy active too, but he will at least let me cuddle with him for a brief moment now and then. 

 

So, I find that time flys before me as they run around, growing and changing.  The next thing I know they wake up one morning and they are "different" than they were when I put them to bed.  I find myself happy and excited about their growth and progress, but also sad because it didn't last long enough for me to burn into my memory.  Pictures are priceless for this reason, but I still want more of the real thing.  So, I ask, when does time slow?  When do they slow down and let me just look at them?..

 

...When they sleep. 

 

 

 



Many times I've found myself staring at their sleeping faces, just soaking it all in.  Many times I've found myself cuddling up next to them, touching thier hands, faces, hair and marveling at the beauty of them.  I even fall asleep myself.  When Bill is out of town I cannot sleep, so I started putting the kids in bed with me.  I fell asleep watching them sleep.  Some of the best rest I've ever had. 

Time slows while they sleep, and I feel at peace.