I couldn't really come up with a title for this post. My creative juices have not been flowing lately. Not that I have any creative juices to begin with, but whatever.
Its been a tough couple of weeks! It's funny to me how I can look back at my previous post just a few short weeks ago and I can tell I am on a mountaintop. But, such is life, we also go through valleys as well. Mainly, my journey through this valley is due to the fact that I can't get over the sadness that we weren't able to go to Hilton Head together. And, THAT stems from the sadness that since school started almost 2 months ago, my sweet little foursome-of-a-family has had VERY little time together! I kept thinking to myself that we would plan a little trip over Sadie's Fall Break, so that was making me feel better...until we realized that Sadie's Fall Break is NEXT week and NOTHING has been planned. :( Not to mention, the funds are definitely not available for us to take a little trip, if ya know what I'm saying....
I'm not in some deep dark depression or anything like that. I just notice a little bit of sadness looming over me. Family vacation to some, is just another trip...another time to go to the beach after you've been several times with your extended families all summer, etc. Our family vacae is much different. We have gone since Sawyer was just 1 year old! And, I can attest to the fact that every single year has been better than the previous. And, every single year has been perfect. How does it get better than perfect? I don't know, but somehow it does! We eat up every single second we get on that vacation and we don't take one second for granted. We make memories that get us through the whole next year until we get to go back again. We take hundreds, and I mean HUNDREDS of pictures and I carefully document each one in a photo album that sits in chronological order in our entertainment center. We get our annual "family photos" made on the beach that we have hung all over our house. And, we stay on this vacation until we just can't come up with any more excuses to not come home! We extend it the whole way home, detouring every chance we get! I think the hardest part of not going this year was feeling like we lied to our kids. We've had them pumped up about going to the beach ALL. SUMMER. LONG. And, then we just didn't go. That will hurt a momma's hurt to see the sadness in their eyes as they kept asking how many more days until we leave for the beach??? Just for me to say..."I don't think we get to go this year". Very hard to explain to a four and five year old. Ok, I am moving on...
On the other hand, I am extremely thankful for Fall!!! The weather changing has me very excited! I love going to Football games in jeans and long sleeves! I love the kids being able to play outside anytime they want to! Dennis and Sawyer went for their first hunt of the season this past weekend and of course, Sawyer loved every minute.
Updates on kiddos:
Sawyer is lovin' Pre-K. He has made lots of new friends and he is SUCH a good boy! He has only gotten in trouble one time and that was because he was talking on the rug. I can't complain about that! Especially for a little boy! He is coloring so much better and he is doing really well at learning to write his name...legibly. ha ha
Sadie is obsessed with school, just like I knew she would be. She is already reading, which blows my mind. She loves, loves, loves her school. I love it when we are at the football games and she goes running up to ladies and gives them the biggest hugs and then she'll introduce me to them. They all love on her like crazy and it is so wonderful! I met her PE teacher and her computer teacher the other night. They all know her by name and I love that. She is really having a great year and I don't have one complaint.
That is all for now. I am choosing today to focus on my blessings and I am going to trust that despite the sadness, God always has something GREAT right around the corner. Stay tuned with me to see what that is... :)
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