today began earlier than normal with a belly-ache boy attempting to take care of business. as i sat on the couch, taking gulps larger than the usual of coffee, i remembered this quote:
"normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are." - mary jean iron
doesn't it make you stop?
it could have been my super-deep pondering way that made me think it over a couple of times this morning, or (more likely) the opportunity to take the much needed couple of minutes to remain sitting on the couch as i heard joseph changing all the dials on the alarm clock as jeremy got ready for the day; either way, thinking over these words made me very aware of normalcy this morning.
we moved here almost two months ago, and i would say things are finally beginning to feel normal. louisville is starting to feel like home. the home feelings come in little spurts - a bit of home as i'm listening to music driving home from the grocery store, some more during our after dinner family walk, lots during joseph's bedtime routine. they're so nice. and normal.
hmm.. i thought i'd have more to say about that. maybe it's the lure of jeremy's late night cereal time sounds from the other room that are distracting me. i bought frosted mini wheats yesterday. um..well....
here are some pictures from my [normal] life right now/please let these convince you not to give up on the blog by this post; in the future the tuesday hour will happen before the end of the [cereal eating time of the] day. :)
we'll just pretend joseph peering out of the window of a safari van is normal. :)
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it seems normal - he makes it look so natural! that quote is good, you have a way of finding and holding on to good quotes. I think I need to write that down and put it on my fridge. sometimes normalcy can feel depressing or even smothering. it's nice to take a new perspective.
you're right, jess, it does look pretty natural! :) the quote is from a deck of quote cards i got a couple of years ago from jeremy's mom. it's true. i wish it was something i wrote down while reading a larger work of ms. iron's, but alas, the quote cards work too. yes, the normalcy can sometimes feel like because it's so normal it's not anything almost. does that make sense? hmm...i have lots of thoughts on this. maybe another post sometime. :)
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