maybe it's because
my heart aches a little too much
after spending the entire summer with family
and then saying goodbye... again...
I don't feel like looking at the photos...
or because the girls and I have been sick for nearly a week.
And alllll my energy has been drained...
or because I've been trying to revive our overgrown half-dead garden,
or clean the bathrooms,
or organize all of the chaos that we create. daily...
or because I attempted potty training... again.
and after tooo many clean-ups all over the house,
let it go... again.
(if you are totally disgusted by my lack of ability to potty train a certain strong willed little girl, I will gladly pay $100 of your ticket to come out and do it yourself!)
or because lets face it, maybe I'm a little depressed...
or because we've been busy painting...
or cleaning the carpets...
or going to the beach...
or reading books. a lot of books...
or chasing little people around the backyard and playground...
or melting melting melting in the humidity and heat...
or because my internet connection here is too temperamental to upload more than one photo at a time to blogger and times out before autosave can even save...
Whatever the real reason,
I do plan to one day catch up photos from our summer together.
It was delightful.
Everything about it.
Except the part where it ended.
And we got on a plane.
xo, stacey
after spending the entire summer with family
and then saying goodbye... again...
I don't feel like looking at the photos...
or because the girls and I have been sick for nearly a week.
And alllll my energy has been drained...
or because I've been trying to revive our overgrown half-dead garden,
or clean the bathrooms,
or organize all of the chaos that we create. daily...
or because I attempted potty training... again.
and after tooo many clean-ups all over the house,
let it go... again.
(if you are totally disgusted by my lack of ability to potty train a certain strong willed little girl, I will gladly pay $100 of your ticket to come out and do it yourself!)
or because lets face it, maybe I'm a little depressed...
or because we've been busy painting...
or cleaning the carpets...
or going to the beach...
or reading books. a lot of books...
or chasing little people around the backyard and playground...
or melting melting melting in the humidity and heat...
or because my internet connection here is too temperamental to upload more than one photo at a time to blogger and times out before autosave can even save...
Whatever the real reason,
I do plan to one day catch up photos from our summer together.
It was delightful.
Everything about it.
Except the part where it ended.
And we got on a plane.
xo, stacey
2 comments:
i know you're not soliciting advice - and maybe the advice i have to offer is ultimately useless - but i'm offering it just the same. =)
with regards to potty training strong willed children (they would be preston, alauna and callyeva in my home), don't. seems if *i* was potty training, they dug their heels in and wouldn't. so i'd quit. i knew they knew how to (they'd pee'd and pooped in the toilet before), they weren't suffering from physiological problems, urinary infections, nor illness, and they were definitely old enough (if that were possible to pinpoint - 3 1/2 years old for preston, 3 for alauna and cally). i announced i could buy them no more diapers, that these few were the last, and i didn't buy anymore (except for the pull-ups for bedtime and church). and then i said little (and kept gumballs nearby and the promise of a train (for preston and alauna) and a pony (for cally) when they'd pooped in the toilet 5 times). i let them do it without my pressure/time schedule. we cleaned up accidents together and never looked back. and this would be after months of trying and trying and failing miserably.
preston continues to dig his heels in about a lot of things. its who he is. he is stubbornly autonomous. but if i can remember that he needs to feel as if something is his idea and that he is doing it/learning it for and by himself, as long as it takes and as hard as it is, he's actually - we're all actually - a lot better off for it be it piano or bike riding.
so there's your advice for the day. take or delete it. ;)
love the pics on your blog and your wonderful way with simplicity. you have a beautiful family lucky lady!
Sounds like you had a great summer. I can't keep up with the house work and I don't even have kids .... yet. I guess I'm really going to have to let it go when the boy arrives. If you learn the secret to potty training, fill me in. I'll need it in a couple of years ;) Feel better, it's ok to let go sometimes.
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