item #1 – sanity and kids safety in light of school closures…we're doing all right. thank you for asking. i loved a quote from a mum in the south china morning post the other day which essentially said, "who cares about my kids' health? what about my health?" love it.
so i am packing up our flat. it's going well but every once and a while i stumble upon something that makes me sit down and go "awww. wow".
i found a picture of charles that he pasted to a book he gave me in 1998. we used to be creative and thoughtful and crazy like that. we were poor like churchmice, but we came up with other ways to show our love.
fast forward 11 years and four children, and there isn't a lot of the opening a book and finding pictures of my boy in there. i used to write him love letters and slip them into his suitcase. now those love letters are more like "TO DO LISTS".
am i less of a lover now? i think so. is he? not really. i think i have beaten all his romantic impulses out of him.
i understand stages of life, but it did make those love letters and pictures i found so very special. and i felt sad that i had thrown so many away over the years.
then i remembered that every valentine's day charles makes me a photo collage of the year gone by, a reminder of special moments we have shared. and i felt better, thinking his creativity, like our love, has changed and expanded.
and, now i blog of my love for him. i probably should slip in more private notes (and i might) but i do announce it.
changing and growing.
back to packing.
