Stuff leading up to my joyful moment.
Warren left on Thursday to go on a big weekend long hike with his sister, Laurel, at Mt. Whitney. Judy, my sister, her husband is also out of town, which leaves her with her 4 kids. So Thursday Judy and I got together and went swimming at my parent's house. Friday, my sister, Kathy, graciously accepted to watch my daughter and Judy's kids for a couple hours so we could have some girl shopping time. So we went to the mall, had dinner, and did some shopping at Kohls. I bought some SEXY wedge shoes that I absolutely love and my sister got an awesome turquoise dress that she looked wonderful in.
Saturday we went swimming at the folks again. My aunt, cousin and her daughter were visiting and my aunt was super nice and bought pizza for everyone, which I really appreciate because money is kind of low this week and I didn't feel like eating at home. :)
Sunday. Today I wore my sexy shoes. Since Warren wasn't home I did stuff I wanted to this morning like exfoliating my face and sewing different buttons on my turquoise shirt. I wore that shirt with a black skirt and my sexy shoes and I felt awesome. Eleanor wore a dress that I made this weekend. I've been crocheting the top for a week and then I made the under dress out of some cool retro fabric. Eleanor was nuts during the first hour but then she was in nursery so that was nice. Got home, gave her a snack and put her in bed for nap.
We recently got a bunny. He is 5 weeks old and is super fuzzy because his dad was a lionsmane rabbit. He is an amazingly sweet bunny. So I let him out while Eleanor was napping to hop around uninhibited by a crazy toddler. I had pizza and watched wipeout (love that show). I went to pet him and noticed he was stinky. Poor guy had a buildup on the bum. I thought, Dang, I'm going to have to wash him and he is not going to like that one bit. So I tucked him in my hands and ran water on his bum, and he held very very still and let me clean him all up. :) Then I tucked him in a towel to dry and I remembered reading that you should blow dry them. I thought, Oh he is really not going to like that. So we went in and snuggled him in the towel in my lap and turned on the blow dryer on cool. He jumped a little but then settled down and let me blow him dry so he had a dry bum.
Once he was dry he sat quietly in my lap and was so happy to let me pet him for a good 10 minutes. I don't know what it is about petting a bunny but I can feel it lowering all my tension and blood pressure till the world feels perfectly quiet. He went back in his cage because it was time to wake up Eleanor.
Sometimes when you wake up a kid it can go really bad. They'll sit there crying and whining about everything so you think, Why did I think this would be a good idea?? So I went in and Eleanor woke up and she wanted to be picked up and she wanted her sippy cup with milk. I snuggled her close and we sat on the couch while she drank her milk and I held her and rubbed her back and rocked her a bit. And at that moment I felt happy, truly happy. Happy that I have a wonderful, sweet daughter who I can hold and love, who makes me laugh with all her silly sayings. Happy that I have someone who loves me so completely and that I can love back completely. It was a joyful moment and I wanted to hold onto it for as long as I could because I think that is what we have to do. There is so much sadness and frustration in the world these days that when you have a happy moment you have to remember it and tuck it away to remind you when those dark days come.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful 4th of July weekend and are grateful that we live in such an amazing country. And here is me hoping that you have a joyful moment soon.
It's been awhile!She is cute as always and so is your new critter. It is hard to catch those moments and realize it, but when you do it is magic:)
ReplyDeleteps. let's see them SEXY shoes.