There Ya Go
Barry took Maggie on a date to visit his parents and I’m hunkered down at home working on a few projects. It took me a while to get into the groove of being here alone, but now I’m blasting music and working through some photos. In putting the final touches on Maggie’s first year book, I have found myself trying to ignore the tears that well up in my eyes and the lump that forms in my throat. Maggie has had so much love in her life. Our families amaze me, our friends astound me and I’m starting to think that we’re okay parents.
I’ve always maintained that I keep the blog to document our life, because I’m never going to be a scrapbooker and I don’t feel like I’ve got time to sit down and journal things out. Blogging is an outlet for me that feels right. I have struggled lately with writing and have found myself holding back from writing about things out of fear that someone might find it offensive or think it’s about them. And usually my version of a rant is about somebody’s smelly breath or rude people at IKEA (hate that place, but that’s a story for a different day) and not anything deep or out of this world.
But working on Maggie’s photo book? I’m struck by how many important moments I captured with my camera that I’ve already forgotten about. I bet I blogged about a lot of them, but I don’t have time to go back and read about it all. I hope the details are there. ALL the details.
I basically answered my own question and squelched my worry. I’m going to keep blogging and if stinky breath and disrespectful people happen to be in my post, hopefully it won’t be about you. And if it is? Go brush your teeth and try to fall on the side life that is a bit more happy, jolly and helpful.
We’ve got a whole lot of love here and we’re going to document the shit out of it.
I TOOK BOTH THE DOGS ON A WALK TODAY AND IT WAS A CIRCUS
Things have been semi-boring on the blogging front as of late, so I threw together a fantastic picture of my afternoon walk. If it looks like Maggie is floating it is only because there isn’t a fancy way to draw our backpack and she was a crucial part of the walk! I held back from putting a crown on her head, I felt like Syd might get offended.
Anyhow, I took the hooligans on a walk today and it was a workout. Sparky would be a perfect dog if there were NO OTHER DOGS ON THE PLANET. It wasn’t so bad, but I found myself wishing that that pesky snow would return so he’d take another chill pill. But did you see that sunshine in my drawing? Yep, it was out in full force today. We came home and stayed outside for ages….Maggie even took her coat off and frolicked with the dogs. Yippee!
Maggie found the frisbee and it turned out that Sparky was a little more than excited to see it. I like how Sydney is a little bit confused about Sparky’s aggressiveness. And then Sydney and Maggie basically switch places with Sparky once again kind of being a bully about the frisbee.
Since I have now started to do an entire post about Syd and Sparky, I think it is time for me to shut this baby down and go do something else. I’ll leave you with this parting shot of Maggie enjoying one of her favorite books:
