The end of summer is drawing too near………
It’s almost as if I’ve been driving 90 down the freeway,, and now all of a sudden I’m hittin’ a construction zone…… Rules…… schedules… normalcy… you know… all the things that come with the school year. Granted, this summer has been nothing but “normal”, having moved and all, and STILL unpacking.. But here we are, staring at the edge of summer. When the breeze blows through the window, my first thought isn’t “ahhhhh cool me down”… it’s.. “Ahhhh where’s my sweatshirt.”.. The bite is in the air forsure… in fact, tonight I’m whipping up a pot of chili….. with cornbread.. mmmmmmmm
Maggie Georgia is still down in California at my Aunt and Uncle’s house. She’s been gone 11 days. ELEVEN DAYS!! And ummm,, she’s 4 years old.. FOUR.. She’ll be home this week tho’. I can’t wait to feel her little arms wrapped around my neck. I can’t wait to see her bottom lip all perched up into her top lip, I can’t wait to see her little naked body walk out of the bathroom, I can’t wait to start folding her damn clothes again!! Shocker, because I HATE folding laundry. But her little panties, and her cute little leggings, and her stained-with-paint t-shirts… I miss her… I soooooo miss her. It’s funny tho’, because I DON’T miss the fighting… I don’t miss the conflict between the two of them. And I sit here and wonder why the conflict is even there….. she’s docile, he’s aggressive, maybe that’s why.. I don’t get it. And I know the minute I hear that first argument, I’m going to explode into a million pieces and my brains are going to splatter onto the wall, and my eyeballs will pop out of my head and my tongue will stick out so far that it won’t go back in, and my arms will raise up to the Heavens, and I will shout,, “WHY LORD WHY??”
But you know what?? I’ll gladly deal with all that shit, if it means I can have Maggie arms around me…. And… I’d post a picture of her, one of my faves,, but for whatever reason, my stupid blog software has decided that pictures can only be “so big”… and frankly, I can figure out how in the heck to resize em…… so just imagine in your head, if you will, the cutest damn face, with a blackberry jam jar in her hand, with blackberry jam all over her face, staring at the camera with the biggest grin ever……….