This morning at Settling In, I caught a glimpse of the three of us, Cash, Quinn, and me. It was right after a long rush across the playground with Quinn crying about a toy and right before we all sat in a circle to sing this week’s Settling-In song, Standing Like a Tree.
After the morning routine of getting myself dressed, getting them dressed, making breakfast, making coffee, and getting ourselves to school on time. After a week of packing lunches, having patience at bedtime, waking up for wet beds, waking up for hungry bellies, waking up for itchy feet, making dinners, pottying, picking out fast shorts, buckling, unbuckling, cleaning up messes. We sat down together, with Quinn on my lap and Cash sitting beside me, and I caught a glimpse of our reflection.
In that moment, I saw my kids. My sons. Us. Our family. Myself as a mom. So much time is spent planning and managing all of the logistics of our lives and getting people where they need to go with everything they need.
And that moment this morning made me appreciate the time when we were all together again at the end of the day. I needed that reflection to remind me how much I love this time and how much we need to just be together.
This is us cuddled up watching tv together after school. So cozy. So squishy. So lovely.
Joyful Striving 