things are changing around here a little bit! I’m trying to tighten up my online presence (barf) and find some semblence of what goes where, and make more time to make a mess of my hands with white out, Sharpies, and paper shrapnel. we’re getting there :)
every week there are things I’ve noticed and want to hold on to at least for another week, and this week it’s…
◆ playing catch in the way that C (2) insists we play, sitting in the grass, thrilled with every successful catch, ongoing until one of us drops the ball or logistics intervene, but also, playing catch in the way W (7) insists we play, standing, not throwing it too high or too hard, with the exacting standards of a kid who can weirdly throw a perfect spiral and expects one in return.
◆ a critical mass of impossibly tiny screwdrivers for glasses with stems that won’t stay on with the bounciest screws ever made and toys that always require exactly one more battery than you have.
◆ Complete-ish dish sets, preferably color matched.
◆ the Spicebush Swallowtail1 caterpillar that took up shelter in a nook of the hard plastic play structure in our backyard, and managed to fully wrap itself in a leaf-looking cocoon, holding on by two impossibly strong silk threads just in time for us to see it when we checked in on it the next day. there’s probably something trite to say about transformation, but really all I want to hold onto is that feeling of “WHOA DAMN LOOK AT THAT THING!” that I can pretend to pin on my kids but in reality feel whole-heartedly myself alongside them.
◆ O (5) who tends to drive me the most crazy when he’s retreated out of our world and into his, but has been drawing the craziest abstract yet still perceivable line drawings of faces, creatures, and who knows what, and all the broken crayons and colored pencils with tips that fall out and markers that we’ve mostly whittled down to “Washable” so that this decade-old dining table can hang on for a few more years to remain the preferred surface for what he has loosely identified as drawing his dreams.