What a week
We had such a busy week last week! First was Not back to School Day where we partied at a local park then met up with Auntie S for more fun at the beach. The next day we went to the Houston Museum of Natural Science where we checked out the exhibits and Legends of Flight. Then it was time for a little mini vacation so we blasted off to Space Center Houston and stayed in our favorite Hotel. I won’t bore you with more words when pictures are so much more fun!
Fun Fun Fun
We are having so much fun this week that I haven’t had any time at all for blogging, though I have lots of ideas in the works.
Monday was our 1st annual Not Back to School Party
Tuesday we spent the day at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
Thursday is the start of our annual Space Center Vacation. Pay no attention to the people who will tell you we only go for the gorgeous warm saltwater pool and the lovely room where Mom has to do absolutely nothing. They may be right.
I will be back next week with fun stories to tell and even more pictures to share. Ta Ta!
…on Being Domesticated
Being a Domesticated Woman, much like being a first generation zoo tiger, is hard. You have all these instincts and skills that nature and walking through life have gifted u with and lo and behold you never get to use them. You have to learn to make do with less excitement or at least a much more tame version of what exciting used to mean. In this case instead of fun clothes and parties, meeting new friends and just being out and about, it starts with diapers and no sleep and progresses to worrying about how every single decision you make is going to affect this small person for the rest of its life and how you are going to live with that. But that paralyzing fear is a blog entry for another day. So you get day in and day out not that you mind and not that you don’t love your children and are willing to do anything from boredom to death for them. I know I love mine and happily do for them, giving more time and emotion to them than sometimes I should. Your new excitement is their every achievement from latching on and other physical milestones to every single scribble they ever made on a piece of paper and sometimes a wall or two. If you are very, very lucky you will also find a group of women who share your parenting style at least to a degree that you are not constantly thinking “omg what a horrible mother” every time you see them with their kids. I just so happen to be that lucky to have found the women at SETXPlaygroup and Triangle Homeschool. To find other crunchy moms with such an array of fun, adorable, interesting, small people in their care has been a godsend.
Last night was the first of many “Refuge Nights” that I will be hosting in my home and it was freakin fantastic. It was 9 hours of chatting, tv watching (True Blood mmm), blog writing and diet busting relaxation. No kids No husbands no need to entertain me or me to entertain you we just happen to all be in the same house chillin. It is great to have friends like that and such a welcome break. I know I went to bed tired and smiling and woke up again this morning smiling still. I feel like I have so much more to give to my family and like a little bit of that preDomesticated Woman is still there only now she is settled and happy in her new role as Domestic Goddess.
