Sometimes, when you are looking for a new outlook, all you need to do is clean your viewer off. For me, this means eyeglasses, monitor, car windshield, and TV screen. When you are looking through children's gooey smudges and fingerprints, kitten noseprints, and dirt & grime all the time, you get used it. When you clean your viewer, your world doesn't really change, but how you look at it does. I look at this time of my life, being a mother of young children, as a wonderful opportunity. I don't sit around and wish it were over. I don't sit around and wish my children were away at school, so I can *do something* with my life. What I am doing right now is what I was meant to do. Helping these children learn and grow to be strong and healthy in all ways is a monumental task that I do not take lightly. During the last months of serious activities and heavy world events, I have reminded myself time and again to lighten up & stop taking everything so seriously. I remind myself to smile & laugh, & to play with kids & my husband. There will always be hard things to go through & to watch others go through. The days of sickness will end soon. Spring will come. Flowers will come. But even in the dead of winter, there is much to be thankful for, and much to look forward to. If you are like me and tired of trying to squint around the smudge and grime, just go find your Windex and start washing. There is a lot to see beyond our own four walls.
New insight....when you have a little one with a very runny nose and you give her a white powdered donut, it is best not to wear a black shirt. I can see it now: CSI Mommy's House. We have a lot of forensic evidence for this one. Black shirt, white smudges, shiny patches similar to snail trails. Wait, we have a new development. Apparently the culprit is ready to turn herself in with a proud, "I did it!" No fifth amendment for her. She is proud of her work. Moral to the story, plan ahead, if you are passing out powdered donuts, just wear a white t-shirt.
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I have my Windex next to my computer monitor. Had to clean it the other day because of all the little dots all over the screen. Took me a while to realize it was from sneezing excessively while blogging.
I can see clearly now.
Too, too funny about the snail trails. The shirt you can wash. Just hope she doesn't give you a big kiss on the cheek and rub her nose all over your neck.
Very graphic description done well. We get the picture.
Seeing clearly has a double meaning which we all can learn from. I love your ramblings, don't stop blogging.
Dear Abandoned (A.S.), first a comment, then a blog. What's this world coming to?
Motherkitty,
What does (A.S.) stand for?
Alipurr, you are so right about the job and privilege of raising children...it is such a relatively brief and precious time, and should never be 'wished away'. I bet you are a wonderful Mum (or Mommy, as you would say!)
Now, a short poem for you (incorporating your ideas as per comment on Motherkitty's blog):
The concept of writing on strangers' blogs
May for some be akin to the wearing of clogs -
odd, strange
slightly deranged,
An act of someone who's 'gone to the dogs'
Yet for we bloggers it makes perfect sense
We ramble the world - there is no virtual fence
We chat with mates,
we communicate!
Happy New Year!, let the blogging commence!
(when reading the above poem, keep in mind 'it's the thought that counts', OK?!)
Wishing you very few tissues and much joy in 2006 :)
Dear Abandoned (A.S.), or should I say Aunt Sandy, welcome aboard.
Well, not only do you have a new outlook on life, but your blog has a new outlook also. The Windex worked. Your blog looks very attractive and I see your links all work just fine. Good job, Allison
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