beginning again – valwellyeah.com

We’re trying to find our way in a new routine again.

We will.

Right now, it’s time to slow way down and release any agenda, and kind of just roll with the days until we can figure out what structure and routine will feel right.

It’s been lots of Toy Story 3, which was kind of a relief after Incredibles 2 on an endless loop. They only like certain scenes. (She loves it when Jack-Jack fights the raccoon, or Big Baby takes a stand with that teddy bear.) It reminds me of when Maria used to watch Lion King every day. She liked some of it, but big sections she didn’t really pay attention to at all.

The new routines are all about this child having come home from the hospital and thriving this time. She’s smiling and starting to use her hands, and we just do baby and are bored in the snowy days, and that’s okay.

Sometimes boring is good. Boring is real good.

I left her legs out of her suit because the mat was silky and kicking into the keyboard at the end made music. There’s a mirror attached above, and she grinned when she spotted herself.

Today Julia came with me and she and p.j. cleaned her whole room, sorted all the Shopkins and LOL dolls and all that STUFF that scatters all around. It was a nice job. The room looked beautiful, clean sheets on the bed, everything put away.

She worked hard on this unicorn sun catcher the other day, and today I brought a big box of new play doh. They weren’t as interested in it as I thought they’d be, but there will be other days.

Anyway, more snow is on the way. School is already cancelled for tomorrow.

Onward into a winter full of more quietly boring, peaceful days.

Love, Val, aka GRANDMA

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