octolilly [through the years]

What is the best and/or worst thing about your life right now? – Dana

The Best: Waking up to two people who love me. Snuggling. Dancing to Christmas music in the kitchen. Then hating the Christmas music and begging for something different. Baking in the morning. Making sweet tea and watering it down so the tiny boy isn’t dancing TOO much. Turning on the dryer so wrinkles in my t-shirt will disappear. Planning the gingerbread house. Friends coming over so I can judge new outfits. Folding blankets over and over because I love to fold them. Not caring if someone rearranges all the ornaments on the tree because “the dinosaurs don’t like it.” Drinking coffee while talking about what marriage means to us. Bath-time for Bonzo and acting surprised when he plants toy “seeds” and GASP, toys grow from the bubbles! Putting on the apron because the kitchen is a disaster and hard work soothes my idle hands. Kissing in the hallway while I search for the 409.

The Worst: Waking up to more bad dreams about chasing murderers through the pews at some church. Too much Christmas music. Knowing that I won’t be drinking sweet tea come New Years when I start the squishy no more project. The piles of laundry that I need to wash. The lack of free-time with my husband because he works All The Time. Feeling like a single parent too often. Imagining what life would really be like if I was a single parent. Crying because single parents are so much stronger than I am. Wishing I could emotionally let people get a bit closer than I do.

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