The sun is shining and I actually have a sheen of sweat on my face. While the breeze is sweet and uplifting throughout our home I am running about in a parade of laundry and baby-tending. It's a great sort of sweat. The sweat of accomplishment. For I've hit a landmark. I have lived in this house for 14 months. The longest I've lived anywhere since my parents home was 12 months. Amazing what two months difference and a mental commitment to stay has done to a home. I'm sure the baby, husband, and step-son fill in the cracks :) but I'm feeling more settled than I have ever before. Finally I don't feel like my life is in an upheaval and maybe, just maybe stability will spread, it will seep into everything that we have going and this time next year I won't believe how far I've come. For even now, I am amazed at how healthy my spirit, my outlook is.
Today I did ten loads of laundry. For two months we've been piling laundry basket on top of basket and just rewashing the same clothes, sheets, and towels. It seems our dryer is tired. It takes forever to dry a load, and extra time--even working odd jobs and not having any full-time commitments (other than Oliver)--is at a low, especially where laundry is concerned.
You might be asking what the difference is today?! Did we perhaps get a new dryer? No. I hung laundry lines. It was amazing to watch blanket after blanket, towel after towel, sheet after sheet dry in only the time it takes to wash another load. With the train rumbling by and my bedroom floor slowly reemerging, I feel great. I managed on top of that to shampoo my bedroom carpet and make tuna salad.
On the Oliver end, he is amazing!!! He is really frustrated that he can't crawl and has a high-pitch squeal to voice his displeasure, but to my great joy, if I plop him on his butt and drop a pile of toys in his lap he is happily entertained for a good 45 minutes. He loves his silly songs C.D. and is very content to entertain himself in his room. Just imagine when he can crawl--it might take more supervision, but for his sake I'm looking forward to that freedom! I just can't believe he is 7 months old! Amazing, strange, incredible, surreal!
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