I guess if there’s a tie-in to Relishing It, it’s that working in the kitchen soothes me. It feels a bit strange to delve into such deep issues here on a food blog, but there it is. I need time to slow a bit, so I can savor every moment with my loved ones. I know I can’t do anything about it, but I really don’t want the next 20 years to pass as quickly as the last have. And while they’re both still doing great and keeping busy, they’re slowing down. Strange to think that that was 20 years ago. It seems like just yesterday that I’d watch my dad play softball, goofing off on the pitcher’s mound or galloping around the bases like a kid. No, the most painful realization is that my parents are aging right along with us. But to be brutally honest, my kids growing up, and me aging isn’t what really hurts. I’ll turn around tomorrow and my kids will be off to college. It’s the decades! I don’t feel 39 years old, but somehow it just happened. It’s very strange, because it’s not just the days, or even years that are flying past. And to add to my melancholy of another season ending, and my kids off to school, I turned 39 on Monday. Not having my baby at home reminds me just how fast time is passing. But even though I’ll get to enjoy some quiet, I’m also a bit panicked. A true sensing extrovert on the Meyers-Briggs scale. Joy because I’ll finally get to enjoy an hour or two of quiet each day. Aria starting school really brings out mixed emotions in me. She has Aanen’s previous teacher, whom we all adore. And my baby, Aria, starts the following week in pre-kindergarten. Now the prospect of making new friends has him excited. But he has serious home-body tendencies that can be a bit…difficult to overcome sometimes. That’s not to say that he didn’t love school. He isn’t dreading school this year– unlike the last two– when he saw it only as a limitation on ‘play time’. My boy starts school next week– first grade. I honestly don’t know whether to jump for joy or curl up into a ball and sulk.
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