My sister and her family have been staying with us this week while my bro-in-law finishes up some classes that he needed near our house before heading back. This past week marks that they have spent the same amount of time in their new place as they did here.
If you asked anyone one of us during that 7 months if we enjoyed every single minute of every single day being piled in bedrooms and beds to make us all fit and our answers would all be the same. There were moments when we drove each other crazy...beyond crazy. We slammed 2 worlds together and lived 9 different lives under one roof. With 4 different jobs, 6 adults, a teen, a 10 year old, and a toddler things got a little, no a lot crazy.
If you asked anyone one of us now if we would do it all again our answer would all be the same. Yes!
No amount of laundry,
Dirty dishes,
toys,
unavailable bathroom space,
food prep and clean up,
spit up,
crumbs,
sippy cups,
pacifiers,
dirty diapers,
messes,
empty milk containers,
additional coke can boxes,
even come close to making a single one of those 600 miles that separate us from them worth. Not a single one of them!
I know that with all things there is a season and this season, all 16 days of it, will be over on Sunday. I am not looking forward to it. I don't want it to happen but it must and I must be supportive. I'm trying to have the Pollyanna disposition in this and try to play the happy game. I came up with one. Don't laugh, I'm trying people!
#1 Thankful for modern technology to be able to fly/drive from here to there in a day's time instead of going from stage coach, to horse and cart, and walking for dayS at a time, and to be able to talk anytime we want with the click of a button or the pounding of a few keys instead of writing a letter and waiting weeks for it to reach it's destination and then waiting weeks to hear back.
Ok, that's it. No more happy about it.
If you asked anyone one of us during that 7 months if we enjoyed every single minute of every single day being piled in bedrooms and beds to make us all fit and our answers would all be the same. There were moments when we drove each other crazy...beyond crazy. We slammed 2 worlds together and lived 9 different lives under one roof. With 4 different jobs, 6 adults, a teen, a 10 year old, and a toddler things got a little, no a lot crazy.
If you asked anyone one of us now if we would do it all again our answer would all be the same. Yes!
No amount of laundry,
Dirty dishes,
toys,
unavailable bathroom space,
food prep and clean up,
spit up,
crumbs,
sippy cups,
pacifiers,
dirty diapers,
messes,
empty milk containers,
additional coke can boxes,
even come close to making a single one of those 600 miles that separate us from them worth. Not a single one of them!
I know that with all things there is a season and this season, all 16 days of it, will be over on Sunday. I am not looking forward to it. I don't want it to happen but it must and I must be supportive. I'm trying to have the Pollyanna disposition in this and try to play the happy game. I came up with one. Don't laugh, I'm trying people!
#1 Thankful for modern technology to be able to fly/drive from here to there in a day's time instead of going from stage coach, to horse and cart, and walking for dayS at a time, and to be able to talk anytime we want with the click of a button or the pounding of a few keys instead of writing a letter and waiting weeks for it to reach it's destination and then waiting weeks to hear back.
Ok, that's it. No more happy about it.
You made me cry...in a good way. Thanks Annie, it flew by way too fast...hopefully one day we won't need long trips to be able to visit each other!
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