Well it is the first day of winter and it is 80 degrees outside!! OK this IS NOT California people, but on the bright side, it IS Texas, so if we wait just a bit it will change!! My older girls stayed up into the wee hours of this morning to watch the lunar eclipse. They thought it was awesome, and quite incredible. I couldn’t believe they were able to stay up so late myself, I was pooped. It is wonderful that we are able to take such delight in the simple beautiful things the good Lord brings into our lives. I don’t know if or when I will witness another complete lunar eclipse, but I will most definitely not ever forget this one. I came inside and dozed off for a bit only to be awakened by my delightful girls showing off their Solar System!!! The two girls who are normally at odds, worked together, laughed together and played together for several hours this morning, and it was a beautiful thing! Their solar system was complete with the moons and everything they could remember to include. I will delight in that moment every time they fight or tattle on one another over the next few months. Or at least the next couple of weeks while they are on holiday from school. Kids just grow up too fast these days and I will help them hang onto it as long as they are little.
It is tough growing up, every year brings more responsibility until you are a grown up and then you just about beg to go back to that childhood place before you had to do it all. I am going to let them hang onto that piece of childhood. Just like I let my 15-year-old son pretend and play in the leaves, it’s allowed because all too soon they will be in my shoes, with a family of their own, and I will still find myself delighting with the little ones and showing them all the wonders of this fabulous world the Lord has given us.
Mothersense and Miscellaneous 