I don't get the need to do lavish all out parties for kids. Is it for the kid or an opportunity to get your friends together and brag about your home and ability to make pretty little treats and sweets? I think the latter. I prefer family celebrations with the occasional party. After all, a large party is just the invitation for more crappy and unwanted gifts to come into your home. Do I really want any of my kids to receive 12+ gifts every year? Do the math on that and you will see that will be 72 items entering this house annually. WHAT? No.
Bento boxes are another pet peeve of mine. So here sweety, have this fabulous and creative lunch I made for you to show off to your friends. Makes me look like a GREAT mom, right? I don't however have any interest in spending time with you above and beyond what I have to so please take it to school. Yes, one hour on a lunch I can do. Spend all of my time during the day with you? No. I have a latte to drink as I walk through Target talking on my cell phone. Then I need to go home and make a crafty fall decoration to put on display so that I appear to have it all together as a mom.
I really can't stand these moms. As a homeschooling mom it burns my butt to hear "stressed" out moms complain about how long the summer is, or how they can't wait for Monday mornings. Seriously? You dislike your kids that much? Please do not pretend to be "that" mom because you can pack a stupid Bento lunch, yet you haven't read a single book to your kid this week. Please reconsider what it means to really be a good mom. I am sure Target has a book on it somewhere. Teach your kid to read. Analyze poetry with your teen. Study the habits of that cool spider out in the yard with your son. That is living. Forget the lunch you spent hours designing-they did.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Saturday, August 18, 2012
It's in the air
I can hear it in the evenings. Perhaps it is due to the early summer that I have been feeling its coming for a few weeks now. My internal clock says that it should already be here but natures doesn't agree. You know what I am talking about. Fall. The peepers are calling it in the evenings and there is something crisp at the end of the each early morning breeze.
I stood in my closet this morning and stared at my favorite jeans and a sweater lying on the shelf. Oh, wouldn't that be nice! I am such a jeans and sweater girl! Just a few more weeks I told myself. A few more weeks of avoiding the thermometer reading in the van that inevitably reads 90+ degrees. Blah! "This is so old!" I feel like screaming. I am ready for the cool mornings when I can open the windows in the kitchen. I am ready to put away the beach towels and swimsuits. I want the transition that tells me life is about the wind down in the gardens. I NEED the change over to earlier sunsets and calmer evenings. Now this is not to say that with the Fall life gets calmer. Just the opposite. Dance, soccer, scouts, school....... No. not calmer on the schedule, but calmer in terms of nature and the speed of the day. Summer screams, Go, go go!" Fall seems to whisper, "Stop and look around at my wonder."
I often wonder how hard it must be to live in a place that lacks seasonal change. I don't know if I could adjust to the lack of natural rhythm. Warm and sunny all the time sounds great, but I feel like it would be similar to a scenic treadmill. I need Fall and it will be here soon, thankfully!
I stood in my closet this morning and stared at my favorite jeans and a sweater lying on the shelf. Oh, wouldn't that be nice! I am such a jeans and sweater girl! Just a few more weeks I told myself. A few more weeks of avoiding the thermometer reading in the van that inevitably reads 90+ degrees. Blah! "This is so old!" I feel like screaming. I am ready for the cool mornings when I can open the windows in the kitchen. I am ready to put away the beach towels and swimsuits. I want the transition that tells me life is about the wind down in the gardens. I NEED the change over to earlier sunsets and calmer evenings. Now this is not to say that with the Fall life gets calmer. Just the opposite. Dance, soccer, scouts, school....... No. not calmer on the schedule, but calmer in terms of nature and the speed of the day. Summer screams, Go, go go!" Fall seems to whisper, "Stop and look around at my wonder."
I often wonder how hard it must be to live in a place that lacks seasonal change. I don't know if I could adjust to the lack of natural rhythm. Warm and sunny all the time sounds great, but I feel like it would be similar to a scenic treadmill. I need Fall and it will be here soon, thankfully!
And so it begins....
It seems that every time I get in the shower I begin to pen blog posts about this and that in my head. I feel like there could be a writer stuck somewhere deep down inside of me. It makes no sense at all because if you asked me what I hate to do the most, the answer would likely be writing, followed by putting laundry away. I always say IF I had the time I would try to get myself to coordinate my thoughts, but we know how chaotic life is most of the time. That leads me to call this blog, Everything but the Calm, well...because that's what my life is.
Some topics will outrage, some will encourage, some will get you thinking, and some might make you want to cheer me on. In all cases they are just simply things I think, believe, or muse about.
Some topics will outrage, some will encourage, some will get you thinking, and some might make you want to cheer me on. In all cases they are just simply things I think, believe, or muse about.
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