After school today, Lil b ask K to come in the kitchen and recreate what they did in science class today. I worked from home today so I could focus on writing a speech for graduation on Friday. Sometimes words come easily - and then there are days like today. Even this post feels like a struggle today. My focus was on work when I got up to throw something away and I saw these two working away. How fun to have a front row seat to this sweet little exchange. Lil B was giving instructions and teaching the how and why you can make ice cream in a bag. Water was dripping everywhere but they just put more towels down. They were in their own little world laughing and creating. K grew inpatient with how long she had to agitate the bag and wait for the ice cream to set up. Lil B responded, did you think it would be easy to make ice cream in a bag?!? As a mom, you can’t help but love when activities of their own making start to teach them how the best things take patience and hard work.
In another celebration of endurance and hard work, the celebration of the Class of 2023 has begun. The path through PA school is more challenging than most realize and that struggle feels oh so worth it when we get to graduation week. Tonight we had a dinner as a last class activity before they all go their separate ways. Bittersweet.
Serving tables in the main dining area was a familiar face….
This morning, Big B and I went early to investigate a new and better suited apartment for Uncle Tev. They had a unit become available and we wanted to lay eyes on it to make sure it would fit his needs. After our successful investigation, B wanted a breakfast sandwich so we stopped to get him one. As we sat and waited for the curbside delivery, Big B mindlessly kept switching the radio station with his foot - without realizing it at first. Once I pointed it out, he took great joy in finding different stations such as Boomer radio which may have been his favorite. I sat silently watching this amusing situation until he hit a station with Bon Jovi on it. The following photo was his face that I was ready to catch when after complete silence from me, I belted out the chorus of Blaze of Glory and scared the kid to death.
After a moment of speechlessness, he simply said, “I might know someone that works here Mom.” Little does he know, that would only make my ridiculousness more fun. Big B is often a comedic genius but even when he isn’t, he still brings out the fun and silly in the rest of us. The levity he brings to our family is both fun and healing.
These two photos were the bookends to the light part of the day. Beautiful skies for both sunrise and sunset felt like such a gift and worth taking photo evidence. This season of life is taking patience and endurance. It takes stopping to be ridiculous, to laugh, to celebrate the victories, and to see the beauty in nature to survive it - and those things help me thrive in it. Today was a great day.
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