Ignorance is bliss

When we were kids, do you remember how our summers seemed to last forever?  That last day of school in June seemed to have an endless amount of hot sunny days stretched out before you.  The things you were gonna do were endless and your options were wide open. 

For me, We always lived out in the country.  So my days looked aloft different than my Friends that lived in town. I spent days in our back woods and streams.  I'd catch tadpoles in the spring, so come summer I'd be forever looking for the frogs i knew they'd grown into.  I'd search the old abandon/burned down house next door.  Truthfully I had no idea what I was looking for, but I never found it;)

When I started to get older, I was at Stephanie's alot more through the summer...  My days started to get a bit shorter and I was starting to realize that the two or so months that we had weren't as grand and luxurious as I had once thought them to be.  BUT... they still held out late nite basketball games, afternoons spent watching much music and mornings spent in bed. I made friends in the next towns over and my  horizons were getting bigger. 

Once I moved out and was making a go of it on my own(and the occasional money transfers from daddy kins and mommy poo poo),  the shorter my summers really got.  For one thing, summers didn't have the big start I had believed them to have.  The other?  Without even noticing it, summer had long gone and I was into fall.  I started to really look forward to my weekend.  They were all mine, to do with them as I wished.  Man, do i wish I had used my single/free days a little/lot better.  But my weekends had a start and an end.  My mini summer.  Every week.

Now, at least this point in my life, my summers are busy, rarely do I get to do all the things I want, or what my little family wants.  Don't get me wrong, we have a good life, but its busy one.  My weekends are a blurr.  I don't even work out of the house(well just with Kaleb).  But those two short days are so packed full that some days  I cant wait for Monday, when Grace and I's schedule goes back to what I know and am prepared for.  I can relax and get done what the weekend wouldn't allow.

When I was I kid, I wish I had known what I really had.  Then again, I wouldn't of really got it would I?  I cant say I would have been smart enough to know what I had and truly appreciate it.  Of course, I think It was that ignorance that kept the summers so long for us, wasn't it?  Its funny to think, but the broader my horizon's got the shorter my summers got.  The smarter and more appreciative I got, the more I could understand what 2 months/60 days really was.

Looking at my baby girl, and knowing that summer isn't all that far away, I know that its my job to fill Gracie's days, the less she knows about time flying the better.  The longer I can keep her from understanding the 24 hour clock the better.  And Maybe, having her will keep me from counting the hours and get me more focused on whats going on in that moment.

The way to my heart...

 I think the weirdest thing you could ever know about me is: I hold full on conversations with my cats.  Now take what your imaging and times the weird factor by 100.  Because I don't just talk to them.  they talk back.  Well, I make up what there saying but, yes, we definitely have a full conversation.  I don't even know I'm doing it anymore.  I will do it in front of company.  Its out of my control.  It might be a sickness...

I've had cats longer than I can remember.  A large number of them were orange. I have a large one that's orange. I used to dress my cats up in outfits. Our doll clothes.  They hated me, I'm only so sure..oh but how i loved them. 

My heart broke a million times over when I had to leave behind my cat when I moved to Alberta.  I think hers did too.  I mean, I hope hers did too.  That sounds weird and I do realize that.  I do.

When I convinced Geoff that we needed a cat, we were only married 2 months.  That kitten became our baby.  I know- I know that people think that's crazy.  I do.  But I could care less.  We got to help rescue our other cat.  More than once.  But she was neglected in her first home and was in rough shape when she was brought to Tammy, my good friend who works at the vets.  So shes family too.  Our first babies.  The joke people liked to say to me while I was pregnant with Grace was, what if baby is allergic to cats.  I hated when people said that to me, because mostly they were tormenting me.  I always always said-The cats were here first.


I love that Grace will never remember a time where she didn't have a cat.  Its something from my past I've always been super grateful for, and I really really hope she will be too.  I think people who love pets have a softness about them.  I know that's corny.  I really do.  But I also know its true.

Do you have a cat/dog/ anything that is considered family?  Are you thinking about getting one?  I hope you do.  I really do...

Back on track...

Hi!  Its been awhile huh?  We've been busy and are gonna be busy especially this month.  We all shared that never ending flu.  so that took the better part of two weeks then we went on a little trip just Geoff and I-Vegas.  We had such a great time. It was the first time for both of us so we did alot of walking and taking in the sights.  And we shopped til it hurt.  But I gotta say, I was happy to get back to my baby girl.  She did just fine without us, but its still nice to smother that face with kisses whenever I feel like it.

And did I mention that My sister and I finally did some painting around here!  I'm bringing in some extra help before I re-hang picture's, but it i make any great changes I'll try to post it!  It feels like I'm getting a head start to my spring cleaning, and that makes me pretty happy.  I just got rid of 3 blue bag fulls of clothes.  Got rid of most of what I don't love.  Theres alot to be said about that.  3 bags full of clothing we held onto, because-  i don't know why.  But I cant wait to drop them in a bin.

Anyways, good to be back- hopefully on track!