I can't believe I haven't been in this space for four months. It was a rough spring for the H clan, and a busy summer. As most of you who know my family in person know, we lost a young member of our family this spring, our nephew, Chris's sister's little boy. For a long time, all the things I normally blog about -- the little bits of our day -- seemed trivial and not worth the time it took to write about them. But I knew that was just one of many expressions of grief, and that the need to single-mindedly cling to those most vital would ease, and simple pleasures would return. And to some degree they have. Not every day, but many days. These things may fall away in times of crisis, but they make up the remainder of our days, and so, our lives.
Today's little things:
- sleeping through the alarm and rushing schoolday tasks
- finding something orange (hairclips) for E's orange day at school
- the smell of zucchini muffins baking
- the ritual of making a latte (and drinking it)
- C asking again (and again) when her birthday will be (September)
- dishes and laundry (always)
- vacuum lines on the living room rug
- windows fogged with humidity
- M bestowing unsolicited hugs on our grumpy doggy visitor, Casey
- the happy prospect of my Tuesday work night (back to the clay, at last)
It's been a quiet, peaceful day. I wish you the same.
