I got woke up at about a quarter past five this morning because the baby was lay next to me pulling her nappy off. I think she had filled it to the point it was uncomfortable, and wanted a change, but it is a little hard to say because she was asleep all the while she did this. Joy. New nappy on, and she went back to la-la-land. As for me, I got up, and after a morning necessity, I grabbed the laptop and went to the kitchen for some alone-like-thinking-time. At this time of the morning on a Sunday, that means I have had total peace!
So far, I have checked in with Facebook, wrote a short article for The Prospering Peasant, and answered in brief a question from a friend on how Tilt-Shift Photography is done with either a lens, or with Photoshop. That’s how to blow an hour and a half of your time, if you needed to figure it out because you are not as good at it as I am.
It’s Mother’s Day in the USA. That’s good. The problem is that we all went with my oldest son’s suggestion that LAST SUNDAY was Mother’s Day, and we celebrated it for my wife then. So now what do we do? She really should be getting Mother’s Day in the US, and Mothering Sunday for her UK heritage, but now we have to do Mother’s Day a second time? I really should have looked at a calendar last week!
I don’t mind it at all though because she really does deserve one every week. She is a wonderful woman, and of course, Mother’s Day is a wonderful day to recognize it! Since the house is all clean we have got a couple of things she has asked for in the yard to be done today. But I would really like to employ some creative faculties on creating something special for her today! Getting the kids involved might also teach the lesson that they too should look at a calendar once in a while! Breakfast in bed is both too obvious, and seldom appreciated by the woman who cannot wake herself up at any time when she is laying down. She needs to get up and then have her treat. Maybe it is just time. Maybe it is time to work on her art, and time to read, and time to spend with her family doting over her. Maybe it is time to appreciate something in art or nature. Whatever I come up with, it won’t be until it is time for it that I will decide on what to do. That way I can see what her mood is. I know it won’t be something like a day at the Drag Races, or anything like that. Whatever it is, it has to recognize her uniqueness, and celebrate it. It has to see into her heart, and find what makes her the little girl, the woman, and the lady that she is, and open those three at once. One day when all three can come to the surface. That’s how to give my lovely wife a Mother’s Day!
Now some guys might look at that and say “mud wrestling in a corset! The little girl plays in the mud, the woman wrestles, and the lady wears a corset.” Close, oui? No! That’s a Father’s Day gift!
I am thinking maybe picking wild flowers in the desert and learning how to dry them in the sand might be a better idea! Maybe reading a book on the porch with a cup of coffee that just won’t empty out for a while might be nice. Maybe a lunchtime pick and mix would keep her cheery. Perhaps enlisting her to help give each of the ducks a health inspection would get her out of the normal routine. Could a picnic next to the reservoir be her thing for today? Of course this depends on the wind! Is today a good day to volunteer to put the palm fronds in the front fence as she has wanted to do? Whatever the day, it has to be custom made!
I need to get off this chair now, get some ideas flowing in order and put the boots on the ground to make it happen! Everyone is still asleep, and there is time to boil some eggs for lunch!
Ta for the moment! =-)
Kelsey Bacon