Company Girl Coffee: Patience

This was Maggie's fortune the other night.  Grammar aside, it probably should have been my fortune.  Or at least it should have been directed at both Maggie and me.  Maggie is a toddler though, and as such, people expect her to be impatient at least to some degree.  I, on the other hand, am far from toddler-aged.

I'm impatient waiting to hear from Gwendolyn's coaches about when her t-ball and soccer will begin and who her coaches are.  I'm impatient with Keary and myself because there are 1012 projects around the house I want completed yesterday; yeah, even if I haven't fully made the exact decisions and plans, I just want it all completed and settled.  I'm impatient with the people in charge of Grandy's care because I want her to be better already; it has been almost 5 months since she had her stroke and she had to go back to the hospital last week for med changes, monitoring, and I don't know what all and all I really know is that the doctor said is that he thinks this may be as good as she gets and I took that about as well as a punch in the gut.  I'm impatient with myself because I want to learn how to use my camera and take better pictures already, but I know that is an ongoing process, not to mention a rabbit hole because once I am semi-satisfied with taking pictures, then I'll want to process and edit them well too and then it'll be something else.

I really need to have more patience with myself and everyone else but particularly myself since I am harder on my self than anyone else.

Here was Gwendolyn's fortune.



It says "Grant yourself a wish this year; only you can do it."  Sounds like a plan (or maybe half a plan) to me.

What wish would you grant yourself?  Are you a naturally patient person?

I'm linking up with Rachel Anne and the Company Girls for coffee.  Feel free to join us.

A Touch of Spring

Saturday was the first soccer game of spring.  We weren't sure Gwendolyn was going to play the spring season, but she said she really wanted to and promised to participate and interact more this season so we  agreed.  And just look at that form when she kicked the ball!  What can I say, she says she is also training to be a musketeer and sometimes her kicks are the same.  :)

I'm linking up Another Day, Another Diaper's Theme Thursday: A Touch of Spring because even though there may not be much green in the picture or any flowers, I'm thinking the first soccer game of the spring= a touch of spring.

Wordless(ish) Wednesdays: Dog Ears

I pulled Maggie's hair into two little dog ears Saturday morning.  Suddenly she went from being a wild haired, baby-faced toddler to being a little girl and NOT a baby at all.  But more than that, they were just precious.  

Maggie supervised Gwendolyn's first soccer game of the season Saturday.  It kills her that she can't be out there playing with the big kids.  We bring a spare ball for her to play with on an adjacent field or sidelines, but it is just not the same.

Linked up with Photo Challenge (Two) @ Simplicity, Wordless but with words Wednesdays @ And then, she snapped, and Wordless Wednesday @ 5 minutes for Mom, Wordlessish Wednesday @ The Paper Mama, Wordish Wednesday @ Supermom

5/ 52 weeks of happiness

After a week of warm temperatures allowing me to let the girls run around in the back yard as much as they wanted and opening the windows to let the house air, it turned cool again and started raining again last week.  We had to shut the windows, turn on the heat, and stay inside.  This didn't please any of us, least of all Maggie, who at almost 20 months barely speaks but lets us know clearly (and constantly) that she wants to go outside ("uh-side!") and swing ("swee") or play ball ("baa").  So on Thursday, once the temp was in the 50s and it stopped raining, I had us all put on our rainboots and go outside.

And Gwendolyn showed me some new tricks she learned for going down the slide.  

Of all the things I expected her to learn at preschool, going head first down the slide never crossed my mind.  Look how happy she is though!

Then Maggie decided to test out the mud. 

She stomped around for awhile, and eventually, one of her boots stuck in the mud.

And she chose the most obvious way to get the mud off her foot: her hand.  Unfortunately she did not consider that using her hand would also get her hand muddy.

Maggie was both surprised and perplexed by the mud on her hand.

She was not pleased and did not like having her hand muddy.

She was not pleased at first, but you know what she made a bee-line for and tried out as soon as we went outside the next day?  Yep, the mud.  So maybe the mud wasn't as bad as her first impression made it seem.

Linked up with 52 weeks of Happiness @ Leigh vs Laundry, Sweet Shot Tuesday @ My 3 Boybarians, Show and Tell (surprise) @ Paper Heart Camera, Tuesdays around the World @ Communal Global and You capture (fun) @ I Should Be Folding Laundry