12/31/14 We may have missed out on making trains for Christmas Eve but we kept the tradition alive making them on New Year’s Eve with J & C Wyatt and the twins, while Lelu and Landon went out. No my table is not curved – it’s a panarama of the train. Cooh huh?
B made one exciting discovery on New Year’s day when I was -somewhat unkindly- forcing my kids to help clean up and put away all the Christmas stuff. He was down in the basement organizing the storage room and found a leaf for my table. We purchased the table from the previous owners of our house when we bought it and didn’t know a leaf existed for it. It’s been kind of ridiculous that it only seated 6 people when I have a family of 7, so after six and a half years I finally convinced B THAT WEEK to let me buy a bigger table. Finding this leaf made that unnecessary! I did have to buy more chairs but I can now seat ten people! It took Master D, me, TT and B over 2 hours to get this table to separated. I wish I would have taken a photo of Master D and B sitting on the underside with both feet pressed against the opposite sids and literally leg pressing them apart.
This blog represents a lot of the things that we all did this year. I hope we all learned some good things that will contribute to making us better people. CS Lewis said something to the effect of “we cannot remain just a good egg. We must be hatched or go bad” and “with every choice we are either becoming closer to an angel or closer to a devil”. I pray I made enough good choices to be headed mostly towards an angel – as well as all of my people.
I learned:
1. Time moves much faster when you don’t have a child on a mission!
2. Every time I fly, I take stock in my life with the unease of not knowing whether it will be my last. Facing our own mortality is a fear we all share and causes very individual strange reactions. I think: “Is there anyone I dearly love that doesn’t know that I do?” “Have I done enough for my family to remain immortal to them?” And a few other things. Freakin fear! Because of this neurosis I have decided regardless of what happens after death – and I believe that I will live on although many students I interact with do not believe that – I wholeheartedly believe Jesus taught that we are supposed to make our heaven here on earth, because of our relationship with him, it will extend to the other relationships in our life here and now which is just as important as the hereafter.
3. Hiking, yoga and meditation are the best therapist money can’t buy!
4. I want to talk about philosophy a lot, but most people around me do not – if I want to keep my friends and relationships healthy, I need to figure out that balance.
5. Bioethics is the direction I want to go within my philosophy degree. I am strongly interested in it and suspect it could add to my meaning and purpose.
6. I don’t think I want to run anymore. It hurts.
7. (Even with number 6) I really truly do not feel as old as I am – and I think aging is a sick mean joke.
8. Shaming – privately or publicly – family, friends or strangers is NEVER okay.
Looking towards hatching in 2015!