Being Present

Originally, I was trying to get a photo of my two boys, posed, polished, filtered, them both looking at me but THIS captures them perfectly where they are - Mr 4 curious and forever exploring, G defiant and so set in his ways already. The fact they are walking in opposite directions sums it up, you see even though they look similar boy are the so different.

A simple thing like walking to the shops or local park, in one’s mind might seem simple enough? So wrong! It normally starts off Mr 4 riding his bike off ahead whereas Baby G is lagging behind me because he’s going into everyone’s garden and up to their front door. When we do finally arrive at the shops baby G bolts off down an aisle and Mr 4 is lagging behind getting a shopping basket and that spilt second, I need to find both at once. You can imagine what it’s like trying to get through the register.

Heading home Mr 4 is normally over riding his bike so off loads the bike to me and slowly drags his feet home and Baby G wants to bolt home – arriving home can feel like a marathon but without the rest? The alternative is not heading out and having my couch turned into a jumping castle which 99.9% of the time results in one of them bouncing off, tears and my house ripped apart by 2 mini cyclones. Forget taking phone calls I took 2 calls yesterday and it was too many I ended up locking myself in the Laundry cause I’m sure it sounded like I was running some Family Day Care/doing renovations to the callers!

So, apologies to all those not getting calls answered and barely responses to sms, I’m trying to be in 2 places at once, I’m trying to present but not perfect.

Have a great week

xx

My darlings who I love immensely thru the exhaustion you cause me