I can’t tell you how nice it is to have the kids in the kitchen– and exclaiming about the snow, the mountains, the trees, the snow– and then after lunch to go to a basketball game in the “big school” gym ( the fifth grade cousins were playing and Ivy and Lani shined if I do say so myself)– and to have the family take up a whole set of bleachers was, well, amazing–
Then there was this:
And now JJ’s littles upstairs are in the bath tub, and the tired world travelers are all tucked in next door while Chip does the dishes after a big dinner at a crowded table.
I think the word “blessed” is over used these days, but there is no better one to describe how I feel right now. ( I mean, how did this happen? Is this really my life? If I’m dreaming don’t wake me up, okay?)
So, tonight, if you don’t mind, I will defer to the late Buddhist monk Thich Naht Hanh, because he really was right when he said, “Life is available only in the present moment. If you abandon the present moment you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.”
