Kaleb chose to come home for lunch today for a chicken patty. He is so easy to please. :) He gave Ginger her lunchtime treat and brought in the mail for me. We ate our lunches at the sunny kitchen table and listened to...guess..."Hank the Cowdog." I loved every minute of it.
The first of Aaron's two front teeth fell out at school last Wednesday. He brought it home in a little envelope. He sounds different without that tooth in place. He looks different too. Little changes.
Kaleb earned his Bear patch in Cub Scouts and Braylen earned his Arrow of Light. I used to watch the 5th graders cross over to Boy Scouts and imagine it being far away. Not anymore. Braylen crossed over on Sunday. He's now a Boy Scout! We move on from blue to brown. Instead of packs and dens we have troops and patrols. I wonder if I'll ever get the lingo straight. :) Derek's decided to be an assistant troop leader, which means he'll be leading Braylen's patrol. Boy Scouts go camping every month. Sometimes more than once a month. They also meet more frequently than Cub Scouts. They even have...a campout with their moms this spring. Yikes! More little changes in our lives.
Like everything else, our involvement at church changes over time. From Awana to MOPS to commissions to music ministry...sometimes we need to take a step back and ask ourselves if we need to make a change. I think as our kids grow older we grow out of things too. Not sure how it will all look, but I do know youth group is coming. Wednesday nights will look different. Church camp might be traded in for Boy Scout camp this summer. Things I thought I'd always do are no longer things I can commit to.
Braylen is finishing his last piano lesson book, and he's asking us if he can stop his lessons. He wants to play the drums, and he's fulfilled more than the 2 year piano lesson requirement. So we will swap Braylen for Aaron, and now Kaleb and Aaron will be our piano players. I imagine one day when Braylen is practicing the drums I will long for his piano playing days. :) Tonight will most likely be his last piano lesson. One more change.
I have a friend who frequently reminds me we will never be "friends for a season." Neither of us really like that concept, so we've promised each other we'll never end up that way. But sometimes people come into our lives for a time, mean a lot to us, and we move forward in different directions. That's kind of how I'm feeling today regarding our family and what we're involved with. We've hung out in this comfortable zone for years. But it's almost time to move forward in some different directions. We're not moving, but we're moving on. We're not having another child, but our children are taking us to some new places.
Derek will appreciate this post because he frequently tells me I don't do well with change. This is my attempt to do better. :)
1 comment:
Oh Sarah, I think the reason change is so hard for us moms is because we first think of change as an ending. To do something new, we must stop doing something else we've loved. My heart aches for you in this staging lane of change. But I'm also excited for your next stop! From where I sit, you've handled your previous mothering changes with a grace I hope to emmulate. So what if there were a few tears along the way! I love you!
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