What I Did During My Summer Vacation

If you were to regularly follow this blog, you would think I now post yearly, but alas, you would be wrong, my blog merely took a vacation, a year-long vacation.
However, there does come a point when you must complete the "this is what I did on my summer vacation" post.

So to sum up the year in one sentence - I home schooled my son, got pregnant, became seriously ill, took a sabbatical from my legal writing job and added baby Nehemiah to our family.




At this point in my life I wake up wondering what exactly an average day in my life should look like.

For instance, we returned from a weekend trip to the Black Hills in South Dakota around 5:30 this morning. Definitely not normal to finally hop in my bed at six in the morning. I fed the baby, fell asleep till the next time I needed to feed the baby, woke up after Kaydn Rye yelled up the stairs, "Ma, can I watch one cartoon this morning?" and I made my way downstairs at about noon. Halfway down the stairs I hear some moaning coming from the baby's room and realize it has been three hours since I last fed him and that he will inevitably need to be nursed just when I find myself so hungry I could chop off my toe and eat it. So, I gather my accoutrements - a couple cinnamon streusel muffins, a cup of Juicy Juice and my current bible study book, "Believing Gd" into the sun room - and the baby and I both have breakfast.

By one o'clock in the afternoon I realize Kaydn Rye has not had anything to eat at this point in the day and I try to come up with a nutritious meal that won't expend more than two ounces of my energy. I come up with leftover spaghetti from last night's restaurant meal, some cucumbers with Dorothy Lynch sauce and a few cherries. After all, a protein, a vegetable and a fruit are absolutely required at every meal in my world.

We sit down together at the table with Nehemiah in tow and have a nice chat. After dinner I ask Kaydn to unload the dishwasher, unpack his suitcase and finally change out of his pajamas. I decide I'm going to lapse into a coma if I don't take a nap so I lay down in the sun room with Kaydn in slaving mode. Just then I remember that I need to check to my email to determine whether or not I have interviews to do for any trial commentaries that will need to be submitted to my editor this week. I ponder the urgency of email-checking for a couple minutes and finally decide I will promptly check my email upon waking but will not get out of the chair to check it immediately.

So back to sleeping...just as I begin to doze off, I look at the window ledge and realize it is heaping with dust. Again, I ponder, "Can I fall asleep with the knowledge that there is dust residing on the window ledge?" I take a deep breath in an attempt to calm my mind about the dust, and I add dusting to my list of immediate tasks upon waking. However, suddenly I see that not only is there dust in the window ledge, but there is also a finger smudge on the wall below the window. Well, that changed everything about the situation. It was out of control at that point.

By the time I did finally fall asleep, the baby was ready to be fed, again. I then needed to proceed with work email and life in general. After proceeding with email, life and such, I then remember I have a MOPS steering team meeting to attend in about a half-hour. My plan of editing a straggling trial commentary from last week became a distant dream at that point.

So tomorrow is another day to try and achieve normalcy. Currently my beautiful summer flowers are dying, my yellowed grass is telling me that the nights are beginning to get very cold and the grapes growing along my trellis are no longer hanging off the vine. Yet on my front porch I was greeted with life morning, reminding me that just when all seems lost and when complete failure seems imminent, Gd's Almighty Power can breathe life into it all....