Behind the Garden Walls
Nov. 17, 2007
November Pattern
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We go to bed, turn down the heat, snuggle into our beds. In the morning we wake to snow dust on the ground, and the children dance and shout with glee. They look out the big glass sliding doors at the lace that fringes all the evergreens that line the back yard. The trees dip slightly to bring our eyes to the sky, the wintry powdery sky that in its pale blue pink grey says snow. The sun comes out pale, chases the snow away and turns the sky a brave light blue. With streaky white clouds. Dripping ensues. The children do their jobs and set to their schoolwork, chuckling and whispering loudly about how they secretly will finish all their workbooks today, and won't Mommy be surprised? Benjamin colors, and spreads crayons all over the place. The babies crawl around underfoot, getting into this thing and that thing, trying to scavenge for food (crayons are yummy) , or fun, as the case may be. They make a lot of messes. I skip around, feeding babies, cleaning, solving school problems, and kissing a lot of bumps. Mercy is reading like crazy these days. Suddenly she can read most anything, and does, most voraciously. Verity is learning to type with help of a fun computer program, and is learning to use Microsoft Word. South American geography, the wonders of the digestive system. Learning spices our days, and occupies us....I sigh happily. No one has asked me today, "Mommy, what can I do?" |
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