Incredibly wise comment by me today (to Jess, during my 90 MINUTE commute home):
“There is nothing more important than the length of a pair of pants.”
Month: May 2007
Grace swam yesterday. I watched it with my very own (tear-filled) eyes. Wow! She is afloat, in so many ways.
This morning we had the New Beginners Parents’ Coffee at Grace’s school. And by “we” I mean “me” since Matt is in California. Meeting the teachers, hearing them present on the curriculum, community, and special joys of the beginners year, I found myself wiping away tears. Once again the incredible bittersweet nature of parenting stuns me. How can Gracie be going to Real School? Where did the time go?
Good for a Thursday morning giggle. Good thing GodMomGlo is coming into town tomorrow to sort this little guy out!
Started and finished (during long insomnia night) Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman yesterday. Quick read (obviously), but some interesting commentary about women, love, children. It closes with the following passage, which I adore:
This love was so hard to recognize, but I have finally been able to see it for what it is – grace. Grace is when something is more beautiful than we deserve, more elegant and lovely than it should be … The gorgeousness of life comes in accidental beauty; it comes in inexplicable grace. Grace, like when someone brings to your life an unplanned magic.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
– Albert Schweitzer
Got up at 6am this morning to run. Haven’t done that since Before Children. This is as true a marker as any that I’m coming through to the Other Side. Hooray! It means, basically, that I’m well rested enough to forgo an hour of sleep in order to run before the household wakes. It also relies on (a) weather and (b) Matt’s travel, over which I have similar – well, none at all – control. But it was lovely. Best part was passing a big May Day celebration by the Weeks footbridge. A huge crowd was gathered, flowers in hair, morris dancing, music, a maypole. A big smile-inducing thing to see first thing in the morning on the first of May.
Quotation is another random one that I just like. I DO owe deep thanks to those who have helped me find my light again of late … you know who you are. Thank you.