You Say Goodbye and I Say Hello
It’s been a week now since Forest said good bye to naps (Logan gave them up about 6 months ago) and I find myself with no official child free break during my day. Surprisingly, the timing seems to be very nice because the boys are so good about playing with each other that I find myself with lots of time during my days to work on house work and my projects. Just a few months earlier and it would have felt painful to my ego that struggled to find time for itself. But these days the boys imaginations run wild and my main job is to provide conflict resolution. Fights between the boys are mainly in two categories, fighting over a toy or being angry at the other for not playing the way he wanted to play.
I find myself very fulfilled lately as my personal life goals are fruitful lately. I am coordinating a ceremony for a friend expecting her baby in a month, a ceremony for a young lady who recently turned 18 and planning to facilitate my very first retreat in November. I’ve been apprenticing for the past 8 years with my amazing mentor, Glenda, who can be found at The Fellowship of Comparative Religion’s website www.towardcommonground.org. She said I am ready for my own retreat and I’ve learned that when an elder tells you you are ready, you are. It’s been so nice to be able to sit down on my laptop and start writing away with emails and ideas for these various activities and actually be able to accomplish something while the boys play away.
It’s meant so much to me to be able to accomplish something. Household chores are important and of course raising the boys is as well. The time that I spend with them reading stories or looking at pictures, answering questions or showing them new scenarios for playing is incredibly important and fulfilling. But I have been longing to accomplish goals for me, things that fulfilled me with a more immediate end in sight then 17 years from now. And here I am.
So for all the other twin parents out there, those in the pregnancy or with infants, fear not. It does get easier and easier and by 3.5 they are playing with each other so well that you might even get an entire hour to yourself!
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