November Update

I noticed the date of the last post and realized that I haven’t posted anything in quite some time. Life has been busy. Making heart-shaped toast and Tinker Toy energy machines with the girls takes a lot of extra time. We have had several family events over the past two weeks and it has been a wonderful close to this lovely fall season. As I look out my window, I realize that winter is coming. We bought our house last winter. It reminds me to be thankful.

For Halloween, Cora was Glinda the Good Witch and Oberlee was a munchkin from Wizard of Oz. Our cousins Anna and Andrew were Dorothy and the Scarecrow. We went trick-or-treating at our cousin Emily and Natalie’s house and went to Fall Fest on the Bentonville Square hosted by our church. The next weekend, our friends Angie and Jeff Ellison and their daughter, Claire came to visit. Angie has known both of us the longest of most of our friends. It was really nice to have them in our home, enjoying our children and this new phase of life that we are all encountering: parenthood. We attended the opening of the exhibition of “Inspired By Place: The Illustrations of Cara Armstrong and Art Hoyt” at Crystal Bridges at the Massey. Molley, our poodle, had her 9th birthday and had the Ellison’s dog, Marley to celebrate it. 

For Ben and I, work is always busy and everchanging. We both have very unique jobs that we love and hate at times. Working for the arts is frustrating, inspiring, head-spinning and just plain crazy. We love it and feel blessed to be immersed in what we love. I am directing my first play at the college right now with performances in December. I expect that Ben will be coming to me soon with plans of Christmas decorations. This is something we have always done with the utmost intensity. For the past three years (exactly the age of our first child), we have not done very much for decorations. We have been leaving most of the boxes in storage and saying that “we’ll do it more next year”. My goals for this year is that we will put every ornament on the tree, every light, every candle, every sparkly candy cane up and celebrate. There is no greater time than this when we can thank the Lord for the blessing of Christmas, family and for life. It’s fleeting. These moments go by so fast and we have to remember that these moments, even when stressful, are the moments that make up our lives. These are the memories. Make them and make them well. Because when tomorrow comes, they have to live within ourselves to keep themselves alive. 

Hope everyone is doing well!

Wednesday Worries

The garbage disposals broke,

diapers make me choke,

the dryer squeaks,

why do the girls have dirty feet?

The bathroom needs more paint,

one more layer – I think I’ll faint,

the lawnman’s at the door,

Wednesday worries nevermore.

My daughters hold up their hands

“mama, come play in our band”,

Down the streets our cymbals roar,

ah, motherhood is not a chore -

Wednesday worries nevermore.

 

Ashley

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