Aloha

Every day there is laughter, fighting, love, and eye rolls in our house.  These beautiful sounds and gestures have been amplified the last nine days, as my bestie's children joined us for our grumpy morning routines, car lines, school programs, and dinner table follies.  They head home today, and we'll miss the extra goofiness and smiles, but I know they're ready to go back to their beds, their parents...and it will be good to have a little normal around here again, too.  And I think my husband mortified the teenage girls last night with a sex talk. Well, a don't have sex talk.

This week has gotten me thinking about what I'm going to do when they're all grown up...what will I do?  What will that be like??  I've written for years, mostly journaling and poems, and started a book a few years ago, and put it off, put it down, stopped contributing my thoughts and words to it, and so it sits.  I'm considering picking it back up.  I'm considering going back to college and getting a degree in English.  I tried the online college thing a few months ago, and it was not for me.  Not at all.  I much prefer being in a classroom on a campus. I love that I get to consider things...I'm good at that.  If there were a degree in it...

Funny how having small, freckle faced, smiling, grumpy, sleepy eyed, small hands holding yours can make me think about so many things...I want everything for them, but I don't want to get lost in the process.  Working out and walking more consistently is good for me, and I think picking my book back up would be, too.  And dates with my husband.  Are you reading this, honey?