Monday, August 26, 2013

one week

One more week.  It's started getting dark by the time the kids go to sleep and the Dude keeps asking when he gets to go to school.  He's riiight on the cut-off date so I could easily keep him out this year, but for now he's just chomping at the bit to get in there and get going.  How rude, right?

I haven't been posting very much because I've hated taking too much time off for myself - even for blogging.  I will have time next week.  Which angers me, but once I do have a few free moments to do exotic stuff like vacuum I'll be okay.  I have loved every single day of this summer and watching my kids grow together.  This year I had two actual kids - not a kid and a toddler - so we could do actual things.  Really awesome fun things with water and glue and swimsuits.  It only took me 7 years to get to this point.

Seriously, all I want to do is wax poetic and moan and groan about how school is going to steal my precious children and they are growing up too fast and somehow blame everything on the Skull and Bones society.

Instead, can I just take a moment and expound on how awesome it is to be a Mormon?  It's fabulous to live life with the knowledge of WHY I'm here and where I'm going.  I look up into the sky and think about all the planets and galaxies and massive stars out there and how we are these simple people on one small planet who have evolved to care about important things like who got cast as the new Batman.

I can't look at what we are here, and what is out there and think we are the product of some random chemical reaction.  If we were, I would be even MORE ashamed of the fact that reality TV exists.  I mean, if we were the only people to ever be in this great universe, and we used this amazing gift to focus on what Real Housewife did to the other one... well, it would crush me.  Instead, I know we are part of this amazing, huge plan and have been given the free agency to do nutty things like professional eating and killing each other over ideological differences.  Which is not as depressing with the knowledge that this isn't all there is.  Life is just one stop on our journey.

That's what keeps me going and gives me hope.  I love knowing.


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Worth knowing!
Thanks for the well-crafted reminder.

Jane said...

I prefer to focus on the first part of you post and the fun you had this summer. So many parents can't wait to "get rid" of the kids and I love that there are other people in the world who don't/aren't.
(There is no justification for reality TV. None.)

heidi said...

i pretty glad to be a mormon too. i reiterate all you said. knowing is great.

The Atomic Mom said...

Ok, is Dude already 5? Or do they start at 4 in WI? We started preschool last week. It was hard for me, but good for SBJ. He has needed more than I can give him for a while now with some of his issues, so I am thankful for that. I think next year when he has to go to all day Kindergarten I might go crazy missing him. :P

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