Continuing the "legend"

The other day I was taking Oliver and his friend Sam home from a little day camp they were attending for the week. I love to listen to the little conversations in the back. On this day, they were discussing a park close to our house that was renovated. There are lots of things that I like better about the new park, but my kids continue to miss the "old" one. Oliver said to Sam, "I have no idea why they tore apart the old park. It was legendary!"

I guess to Oliver, memories and legends are the same thing. Which brings me to this blog. The main reason I have kept a blog is to document the lives of my children. Yes, there are little snippets about me, but I usually include those so that my children will later have a context for all of these events. We LOVE looking at the books that I publish from the blog at the end of the year. The memories are "legendary"! So why have I been so lacking in recent months? I feel like this last year has been a time of immense growth for me. It's not that the lives of my children have become less important, but much of the thoughts that, in the past, I would mull over during the day and later publish into a blog post have been about me and not about them. And most of those things just don't have a place here.

But I am going to recommit. I know it is important and I am going to try to stop with my excuse of "I'm so far behind- where do I start?" So for a while, we might have the old and new mixed as I try to make some sense of it all. Thanks for your patience... legends are in the making.

My heart

As I was dropping Oliver off at school today, I thought I should probably write down a little "ritual" he does because I'm not sure how long he will do it. I don't even remember when it started, but as he gets out of the car, he turns, blows me a kiss and pats his hand on his heart. I do the same in return. I remember when I was planning my trip to the Philippines, I was sad just thinking about the fact that I wouldn't be there to do that. Oh, if they could just stay little!