oh, it's joy all right. Full force all out and if a wrestling match ensued, that'd be ok too. Not always clear on the difference between positive and negative attention. Or pain and pleasure.
Sigh.... Yes, I know these days make you crave and idealize a future with more mature children, but I am awash in nostalgia for when my kids were small and I was the center of their worlds, rather than an increasingly irrelevent distant fly buzzing around and annoying them. I am frequently struck with near-terror over the fact that Jazz is SIXTEEN, and in slightly more than two years he will be leaving for college. Soon it will not just be that parents don't matter that much, but that "home" will mean an entirely different place for him, and after that, "family" will be other people, with us being demoted to "extended family
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ok...first of all--Jazz is only 5 and Wolf is still a baby. :)
I totally hear what you're saying and I admit that I hadn't thought of it this way. Every once in a while, I think about B. as being small enough to fit in my extended arm when I see her doing something I'm surprised she can do.
I think it is so awesome that you and S. have remained close to Maritza. I admire that about the family you have made.
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> I will be able to come in the door without the boy launching full speed at me, his arms extended to push as hard as possible.
What is he actually trying to do here? Push you back out the door? Give you a hug? Start a wrestling match? ... ?
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Someday, I will not have to clarify that we wear pants in restaurants and don't put kohlrabi in our noses....
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I totally hear what you're saying and I admit that I hadn't thought of it this way. Every once in a while, I think about B. as being small enough to fit in my extended arm when I see her doing something I'm surprised she can do.
I think it is so awesome that you and S. have remained close to Maritza. I admire that about the family you have made.
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