If you told me back in January that my parents would live with us for 10 weeks (+3 extra with just my mom), I would have thought you were off your rocker. But those were the days of "before." Before we knew about a global pandemic, before we moved to a four bedroom house, before we began caring for three children age two and under :) From the autumnal equinox to the winter solstice, it's been a wild season! One for the books. My mom captured these recent days so well in the poem below. I love these words because they represent so many moments and memories!
A - Anxious Anticipation, Autumn's Arrival, Adjusting, Alki Beach, Awe
B - Babies Born, Bottle washing Begins, Baths, Burps, Books, Basement Bedroom, Birthdays (5 in Oct), Bungalow Beauties, Blessed
C - Colorado, Cascade Mountains, Construction Toys, Calvin Creighton, Chunky Crayon Coloring, Cocoa, Coffee, Caffine, Chaos, Crying, Clutter, Cozy Craftsmen Cottages, Christmas lights, Cuddles, Cuteness
D - Long DRIVE here, Dozens of Dirty Diapers Daily, Dazzling Dahlias, Daylight Savings Time, Dreary Drizzly Days,
E - Ellen, Ebony (the dog), Election, Exploring, Estate Sales (yes, I fit in a couple), Exhausting, Endearing
F - Forest Fires, Fiery Fall Foliage, Fixing Food, Freebies, Family
G - Groceries--lots of Groceries, Garbage Truck Sightings (Exciting to a 2 year old), Gardens, Gables, Gurgles, Grunts, Grateful
H - Hiking to Hiawatha park, Halloween, Hot Tea, Hugs, Heartstrings stretching when I Head Home to Houston
I - Idaho, Imagination Play, Instagram scrolling
J - Jack-o-lanterns, Japanese Maples, Joy
K - Kicking soccer balls & walnuts
L - Leaves, Loads of Laundry, Library books, Laughter, Love
M - Masks, Miles between us, Mt Ranier, Mirma (my grandma name) Milestones, Messes, Many Memories
N - Norman, Naptime, Nursery rhymes, November
O - October, Owls, Oregon, Olympic Mts
P - Parks, Playroom, Puzzles, Puddles, Puget Sound, Picking Pumpkins, Poop, Poppa's Pumpkin Pies, Pandemic Persists
Q - Quaint neighborhoods, not a lot of Quiet time
R - Rediscovering Reading aloud, Raking leaves, Rain boots, Rain coats, Rain (this is Seattle after all)
S - Sleepy in Seattle, Seattle Skyline, Singing Silly Songs, Swaddling, Spit up, Spills, Sweetness, Special Season
T - TWINS! Tiny Toes, Two-year-old, Tired, no TV, Tree fort, Tantrums, Thanksgiving, Thankful
U - Utah, Unique time
V - Viewing Various Vehicle Videos, Vintage Vibes, Votes Cast (by mail)
W - Walks to Water Tower, Walnut tree, Wheelbarrow, Whale Tail park, Wyoming, Whipped coffee, Watching Wee ones With Wonder
X - Excitement of a 2-year-old in the small things, Excruciating to Exit
Y - All these Yesterdays will quickly turn to Years and this has been a Year like no other
Z - Zillion $$--What I wouldn't trade all this for
Loving our "Mirma and Poppa,"
- SJW
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