1 Mother 2 Another

Saturday night Maddie threw up- most
likely from too much sugar celebrating her dad’s birthday.
But when Sunday morning church time rolled around and she was
astonishingly still asleep, we called an audible and skipped
church, thinking if she was actually sick we didn’t want to
wake her.


Maddie stumbled out of bed right as rain, so we settled into a
slow, stay-at-home family day that was, to be honest, much-needed
around here.


What did we do? Lessee – hard to really lay it all out there.
Cora and I worked in our herb garden a bit, watering the plants and
doing a little maintenance. While watering the dill we discovered
nine (NINE!) caterpillars munching contentedly on it, obviously
bulking up as they prepared for cocooning. A few minutes of yelling
excitedly later, the entire family was gathered around the nine
(NINE!) caterpillars, watching them munch in breathless wonder.
Looks like we’re going to have several butterflies in a
couple weeks.


So that, you know, took a good chunk of time.

Maddie needed more glue for a school
project, so she and I rode bikes to the corner store to get more,
and “happened” to pass by the playground on the
way(ish) home.


And that’s, you know, a bit of time too.


We did quite a bit of Legos work, Daddy and Maddie got out their
guitars while Cora warmed up our microphone for a while, we read
books, and both girls worked a lot in their Mega Dot-to-Dot books.
The whole family headed out to get our large jasmine into the
ground, the girls enthusiastically digging the whole,
“rescuing” roly-polys, trimming roots, and in general
getting good and messy. For the grand finale, we ate leftovers and
watched more of the BBC documentary “Planet Earth”.


So basically, we geeked out, hung out, and had exactly what we
needed – a no-fuss, no-worry, slow-motion Sunday. I had a
chance to come up for air from my grieving, look around, see
God’s beauty, and take a deep breath.


Which, as it turns out, is just what the doctor ordered.