Catching Up
I was pretty good at keeping up this blog over the past few years, but lately I’ve been slacking. I don’t think it’s going to get better, I expect one post a week to become more of the norm. I think I’ve mentioned this a few times in the past few months as it’s gradually happened so I won’t mention it again. It’s just been a bit of a shock to me how I feel like I should have more time but don’t.
The boys are two. That means they are smarter, stronger in strength and personality, more independent. And yet I find that they require a similar mental and energetic level to infants. I’m back to being completely stupefied about how to interpret and deal with their fighting, discipline needs, potty training, etc. As every parent warned me, the wonder is that much more beautiful and the difficulties that much more intense.
Awesome stuff lately with the boys:
* Logan loves to do yoga and is pretty good at the poses.
* Their imaginative play is so much fun and often very silly. Ghosts, bad guys, pretending to be animals, all manner of pretending. And Spiderman is The super hero in our homes.
* Last week Forest told me that “Green Daddy loves Forest.” It has taken me a few days to convince him that the rest of us love him too.
* Logan has stopped saying “june” for the word orange. Funny how those kinds of changes leave you a little sad.
* They can make their own peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, rinse off containers for recycling, rinse off their dishes and put them into the dishwasher and help me unload the dishwasher. They have almost mastered unzipping and taking off their coats on their own.
Good stuff for Brad and I lately:
* I’m really honing in on what I want to be when I grow up and how I’m going to do it.
* Lots of great trips on the calendar for the year with friends, family and with our spiritual teachers.
* Making an effort to break out of the house more to meet new people.
* Acupuncture
* Eating more veggies. Actually this applies to the whole family but since Im the one making the conscious effort as the shopper and chef, I put it here.
* Letting the boys do more and more on their own, like all the things mentioned above.
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I too find my boys require a lot of energy to be a good mom in the 2s! Hence the working out and more time needed for reflection in the evenings… I need all the extra energy I can find!