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changing views as we get older
Topic Started: May 15 2009, 08:08 PM (65 Views)
rach679

I was playing with Hailey, with seashells I collected as a kid and saved all these years. When I was a kid it was interesting to see all the different seashells and collect all the seashells I saw. Now as an adult I'm looking at the seashells while they are still quite unique there are several main styles of seashells and they all have similar colors and patterns. They really don't seem all that unique. And I normally just look at the seashells and think "oh decoration" but recall as a kid with those seashells spending hours collecting them, washing them, putting them in pretty baskets to display. Hailey was playing surfing with them! She took a flat shell and then took the hermit crab style shells and they went surfing.

I'm a really I guess high-strung person and freak out easily (haha if you can't tell), it seems like as Hailey is hitting preschool age, it is so much easier to let go and relax. Its easier to not feel like having to sweet the small stuff. And easier to just have fun. I'm so stuck into school work, or work-work its so hard to just sit back and play a game. We tried to play connect 4 - well Hailey "knows" how to play it but after the first few times she'd rather make up her own rules. I'm such a structure/schedule freak now-a-days. Its so hard to just go back to go with the flow. I remember as a teenager telling my uncle to lighten up and just go with the flow - if we didn't go to Bush Gardens we'd never know if it rained or not or if we'd have a good time or not and miss the experience, we went had it was a wonderful day for everyone. But now as I'm an adult I'm here struggling with having every minute of every day schedule to a "T" so many commitments and priorities between church, school, work, family, etc. I kind of understand why my uncle didn't want to risk bush gardens that day. It used to be so easy to just sit out in they yard and watch the clouds or listen to the birds. But now its so hussle off to the next task or area of life.

I was putting Hailey to bed last night and got me thinking about all this stuff. How I get my head so up tight and wound up. Hailey said to me, "mommy I want you to cuddle me." Normally I say "Hailey not to night mommy is really tired." But I did, and it just brought back so many memories. It used to be no big deal to sit and cuddle her or rock her - but I've gotten so overwhelmed its like I"ve lost touch with what is important.

I'll end my rambling. But just having fun realizing how much your thinking changes as you go through different time periods in your life.
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Thats natural. We are layed back as kids... then get high strung and structured as adults... then eventually we hit an age where we realize that we have been crazy the past 20 years and then act like a child again! LOL!!! Seriously though!!! Its the cycle of life. :-)
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Mommy2Brendan

I'm usually still pretty much a laidback adult and try not to make too big deal of things like take it like a adult because I don't want to cause issues with people .

When people who do stuff like littering ciggys on purpose , not picking up or cleaning up after their dogs and I end up having to clean up after them because complaining to the landlord does no good at all but as soon as I make a accidental litter mess due to a chocolate trail from a wee hole in my garbage bag that I can't clean up right away because my lil boy has a habbit of trying to top latch me out meaning by standing up on a chair and not only locking the key door part but also putting the deadbolt lock to lock position.

I do the other neighbor clean up when my boy is at school but I get into trouble saying clean up your garbage mess if it's not done right away by the landlady and the littering neighbors.

So I have always thought their doorway smoke but I coped with it and cleaned up after them but after they litter on purpose & don't pick up their trash get me into trouble when i don't litter on purpose so I started spraying their door with peppermint air freshnerner along with the stair rails of smokers .

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Mommy2Brendan

I can't write today i started spraying the stair rails in areas where stinky ciggy smells along with the door of the complaining littering neighbors because I thought there place always stunk but as soon as they make a whine about me for an accident I make but they don't get into trouble for their littering on purpose .

I say life isn't fair so i can't stand the smell of ciggy smoke so I'm doing something about it
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