I did a lot of catching up today. I talked over coffee and breakfast to a friend I had not seen in a while. I talked with my brother who I had been playing phone tag with for months. I did two loads of laundry that were screaming at me from the upstairs laundry hamper. I went to the grocery store so people would stop giving me funny looks when they opened the pantry-the "Do you plan on feeding us?" look. The bank, the Post Office, a hair cut that I usually get twice a year. Finally meeting another friend to return the bag she had let me borrow. Monday was catching up day all around.
Sometimes I feel like that all I am doing is "catching up". I tend to look at it in a good way. I think I will always be catching up one way or another. There will always be laundry to do. Once there is not, that will mean that there will be no one to do laundry for. Funny looks from three children over lack of snacks will mean that they have much more interesting things to do, people to see, or places to go.
I will always be catching up with friends. We all lead very fast paced, busy lives. Having some time to sit and focus on what we have been doing is such a joy. To talk about movies we have seen, books we have read, our vacations over the summer break, to be proud of what our kids are up too. To talk about our favorite book/film-Harry Potter. It is good to have friends to catch up with. I will never be finished doing that.
My brother-my link to my childhood, who I practically raised. To remember him as the baby I would rock to sleep and now he is almost thirty, singing, writing, playing guitar in a quasi-rock band. To talk, and laugh, and shake our heads. To wonder out loud, to question many things, to support and help each other-I will always be catching up with him and he with me.
I never want to finish catching up on anything. Even the laundry.
Sometimes I feel like that all I am doing is "catching up". I tend to look at it in a good way. I think I will always be catching up one way or another. There will always be laundry to do. Once there is not, that will mean that there will be no one to do laundry for. Funny looks from three children over lack of snacks will mean that they have much more interesting things to do, people to see, or places to go.
I will always be catching up with friends. We all lead very fast paced, busy lives. Having some time to sit and focus on what we have been doing is such a joy. To talk about movies we have seen, books we have read, our vacations over the summer break, to be proud of what our kids are up too. To talk about our favorite book/film-Harry Potter. It is good to have friends to catch up with. I will never be finished doing that.
My brother-my link to my childhood, who I practically raised. To remember him as the baby I would rock to sleep and now he is almost thirty, singing, writing, playing guitar in a quasi-rock band. To talk, and laugh, and shake our heads. To wonder out loud, to question many things, to support and help each other-I will always be catching up with him and he with me.
I never want to finish catching up on anything. Even the laundry.
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