Sunday Listing

• We are keeping life very full. Seems spring and fall are this way for us here. The summer to hot and humid, the winter, too cold and dreary. But ahhhh, spring! Ahhhh, fall! I do love those seasons in Maryland. (I am trying to keep a running tally in my head of all the things I love about our life here.)
• Some of those things include: our DS family, our church community, The Y, my poetry group, various and sundry bookstores, various restaurants and cafes (which though we don't get to go often, after three years we are slowly getting the chance to try), the outlying areas with their farms and parks and paths (which we discover more of all the time), other people we have met...and...
• We had a busy weekend. Last weekend Rainer suggested out of the blue that we go to the zoo--so we did. Today, he suggested the farm--so we found one. I have pictures I will post when I am near my other computer. It is SO nice to walk around in areas that are not populated by cars. G is getting SO much better at walking with us, more adventurous and more sure. She reaches up to grab my hand and walk with me now--seems like a small thing, but I assure you, it is huge. So huge, in fact, that walking through the park this afternoon, Alex and Rainer on up ahead, nothing but a periwinkle butterfly and some tulips in the breeze below the trees, I teared up when she grabbed my hand--her own hand so very delicate--and walked with me.
• We went for a hike.
• I have been pain-free, thanks to some help from a new doctor, for the first time in two years and it feels so unbelievably good!
• The fitness challenge is going well. Took a step class for the first time in 20 years this morning!
• 20 years. How is that even possible? The lady next to me refused to believe it is true. But it is.
• I have about a bazillion things I want to do/HAVE to do, but I keep finding time instead for the kids. Our house is a disgrace, but the kids are active.
• Yesterday we went out to a state park and the kids had a blast on a recycled tire park and walking along the water.
• Rainer has taken to saying "Good job, Georgia! You said 'swinging'," (and various takes on this phrase). It's funny, and endearing, and it also kind of eats me up a little.
• Georgia though, has turned some sort of MAJOR corner. Something has just CLICKED. She is talking up a storm! It is absolutely wild and wonderful. Little phrases and funny things that show me just how much she understands. She likes to tell me what she is doing (i.e. "I jumping!")
• OKAy. Off to do some stuff on my should-oughta' list. We have guests coming next weekend and I am not even CLOSE to touching the house list yet. Eep! And I just realized I have meetings every night this week. Holy moly, but we are a busy bunch!

Comments

[Jaimie]

I hate summer in MD (during the 100+ temps last summer, I basically didn't leave my apartment unless it was necessary or for something fun). I'm trying not to dread it too much and just focus on the fact that I do like spring here! I think I need to focus more on the good things about this place like you are.