Day 34: Home again, home again, jiggety-jig

Janet and I were talking about ... well...many things while we were away together.  One of them was this need to constantly start over.  Why can we live our lives slow and steady like the turtle?  Not that I really want to be an amphibian but that building up to success part I think I would enjoy.

I feel that way today: home today and tomorrow, start over at cleaning, sorting, organizing my life.  Sigh.  Though I did do my organizing bit today since it is Monday.

Before:

After:

Here the suitcase is empty, ready to go back to the basement.  I can't quite make myself do that tonight but definitely tomorrow.

I've enjoyed the thinking time I've had while I was away.  I finished Steven Johnson's Where Good Ideas Come From.  A very interesting read.  Many different parts are going into my thoughts on Church Organization and Creativity Thereof.  More to come on that, I hope.

P.S.  Happy Birthday, Daniel

Day 29: School's out for the summer

I can't pass through this day without humming some portion of that song to myself.  Was that really all we played on that day when I was in school?

Anyway, I survived it.  Somehow the last few days of school for my kids always seems like a massive rush for me.  No matter how I plan ahead, it always seems to be a half-assed scramble to the finish line.  Same old, same old, this year.  So any chances of art were pretty much zero today.

But I will take just the smallest bit of creative credit for these:

Daniel with his reading award

Emily with her grad diploma

Have I said lately how proud I am of my kids?

I have to say though, two days in June auditoriums has left me rather washed out ... I'm going to go fall into bed now.

Day 9: The really important things in life are free

The best and most important thing I did today was spend time with my son, Daniel.  He is an introvert and a quiet soul and I worry that his needs don't get met.  But today, despite the insanity that this week has become, I spent time with him.

He makes amazing things with Lego.  He made this:

I'm afraid at this moment I have no idea what it is.  The fact that it is as tall as he is is important.  I'm not sure why.  I can tell you it is 152 and a half cm long or almost exactly 5 feet, if I remember correctly.

It doesn't matter to me that I don't really know what this is all about.  Maybe reading this blog with encourage him to explain it to me.  I hope so.

We also got to do something that I haven't taken a picture of since just a few days after Daniel was born.

Wait!  If the Lego structure was about 5 feet tall then so was my son.  And his hand is way bigger than the little tiny hand I had to hold open when he was 5 days old.  I think I'm going to have to go and kiss him in his sleep, right this minute before he grows up anymore and I can't do that any more.