February 5, 2010 · 1 Comment
Writing Prompt from the Blissdom Writer’s Craft Wisdom Workshop:
What I Left at Home
For the third time in his life, I left my son overnight.
I am his constant. His guide. And today, I am gone.
I left him for one night a year ago to come to this same place. A place for me. Six months ago, I left him for two nights to visit friends whom I hadn’t seen in 20 years.
This trip is three nights. Nights I have chosen to be away. Nights where he will call for me and cry for me.
Or not. Maybe he will surprise me and be completely comfortable in his own house, with his dad and his sister. Without me.
The last glimpse I saw of his face, he was sobbing and calling for me, afraid to go to his new classroom. Wanting me to go with him. To be his constant. To be his guide.
It hurts to think of him missing me. Needing me. While I’ve chosen to be somewhere else.
But I will come back stronger and better. A happier person. A better mom. He will learn to depend on others. Maybe even depend on himself a little bit.
And in three days, I will come home to him and hold him in my arms. And he will be my constant, once again.
Categories: Nicholas · parenting - my way
Tagged: blissdom, missing my son
25/365 Red, yellow, blue and green.
26/365 Kindergarten Queen
27/365 Window Washer
28/365 Thirty-something
29/365 Falling snow
30/365 Waffle-maker
31/365 Constant motion
Categories: 365
Tagged: 365, photography
The ring bearer and the flower girl.
Enamored.
Categories: Maggie · Nicholas
Tagged: beach, memories, wedding
18/365 Ahead of the crowd
19/365 Merry-go-round
20/365 the mouse
21/365 self portrait
22/365 the sweeper
23/365 Sharing a snack
24/365 Lining up the books (fuzzy iPhone photo)
Categories: 365
Tagged: 365, photography
11/365 Window climbing
12/365 Breakfast Hideout
13/365 this one
14/365 Shadows
15/365 peeking through
16/365 sniffing
17/365 Maggie’s mecca (Cinderella’s castle from our balcony)
Categories: 365
Tagged: 365, photography
http://twv.typepad.com/twv/2010/01/kim-soo-and-patrick-january-16-2010.html
This is a link to my brother’s wedding ceremony. I dare you to watch it without crying.
Categories: Brigid
Tagged: ceremony, family, wedding
{Creek.} Door opens.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
“Anyone still here?”
It’s me. I’m back from vacation. I have actually been back since Wednesday, but gathering my thoughts from so many great events has proven a little daunting. That and the 12 loads of laundry…
But without further ado, I would like to welcome Kim Soo Miller Nagle and her son Cameron to our family. My brother Patrick and Kim Soo were married by the sea in Lido Key, Florida. And now they are a family.
Talk about a fantastic new sister-in-law. Kim Soo is hilarious, beautiful, super-smart, an awesome parent, and basically unflappable.
I had to let her know just a few days before the rehearsal that I had goofed on our flight time and we would miss it. I was a reader, Maggie was the flower girl and Nick was the ring bearer. And we were all going to miss the rehearsal. And she was fine with it. Many brides would have flipped out, but not her.
Everything was planned meticulously, with details many surely missed. But at a moments notice, Kim Soo would switch gears to make everyone else more comfortable.
Then after a beautiful ceremony filled with joy, she went up and rocked the night away on the dance floor. With a broken toe. I’m not sure at what point in the evening her toe was broken, but I’m pretty sure most brides would have made a bigger deal about it than she did. I didn’t even know until the next morning.
And of course, this is where a beautiful photo of the new family should rightly appear, except I have misplaced the cord to my camera. So the photos and the videos will appear soon in another post.
Many happy wishes to the new Nagle family. I honestly couldn’t be happier for you.
Categories: Brigid
Tagged: bride, family, wedding
4/365 Watching as Maggie gets on the bus.
5/365 Not a great photo by any stretch of the word, but I almost flaked and missed taking a shot at all. This was a game of scrabble and if you’ll look to the near top left corner, you’ll see “VOUCHING” which I played for 209 points!
6/365 Puzzle time.
7/365 Maggie working with numbers and letters. (Notice the pajamas inside out and backwards worn in hopes of a snow day.)
8/365 I keep purchasing toys that have 8,239,471 pieces. Seriously, what was I thinking?
9/365 My favorite boy at his birthday party.
10/365 Mmmmm. Cereal.
Categories: 365
When Maggie came into Nick’s room this morning, I pointed out to her that she had her pajamas on inside out and backwards.
“I know mom.”
Not an atypical response. She pretends to have done some things on purpose to avoid being wrong. (I have NO IDEA where she would pick up such things.) But both shirt and pants, backward and inside out?
“Really?” I asked.
“It’s a secret.”
“A secret?”
“Yes. From Mrs. {kindergarten teacher}”
“Really?”
“Yes, she said if we wore our pajamas inside out and backward and slept with a spoon under our pillow, it would snow.”
She was a bit disappointed to see that it had not, in fact, snowed.
When I came downstairs, I asked my husband if he knew of the pajama story.
“Yeah, she’s got a spoon under her pillow, too.”
This made me smile today. And makes me hope she gets that snow day tomorrow.
Categories: Maggie · parenting - my way
Tagged: hoping for snow, pajamas
