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Clifford, GHHS student<p></p>Jenni & Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990011700962332377noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749793872940636559.post-81571678190550052612024-03-10T22:36:00.008-04:002024-03-10T22:53:56.468-04:00eight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizUOQeyjdqUNipBAjCuKRglwJmtEUn9syf-rUge1-sVH7YrhXkYgtZn8NWnbJkn65gbW1Gx1NrxoXhUsbXa7wV7ZF0zUKUB0sSEPSq-XZrLLqx58lAqWjB6RB4RrsYF5Kpwoe9LRydIEGqp4qOqW3lc41BnRJOTD5ZHCuYuXNzuW0UqsOmVrXzgu9NJww/s4032/IMG_8368.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizUOQeyjdqUNipBAjCuKRglwJmtEUn9syf-rUge1-sVH7YrhXkYgtZn8NWnbJkn65gbW1Gx1NrxoXhUsbXa7wV7ZF0zUKUB0sSEPSq-XZrLLqx58lAqWjB6RB4RrsYF5Kpwoe9LRydIEGqp4qOqW3lc41BnRJOTD5ZHCuYuXNzuW0UqsOmVrXzgu9NJww/w480-h640/IMG_8368.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Dear Hank,</div><div style="text-align: left;">Happy Birthday! You have been particularly patient and forgiving this week, in terms of not being the sole center of attention. I will remember your head on my shoulder, asleep through the second half of the show. It reminded me of you as an infant, cheeks like built in pillows. You went to support Tuck three times and have the entire Sound of Music memorized now, can recite every line.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">At age eight, there is so much creativity coursing through your body. And so many cartwheels in your mouth. You seem to live in the ready position, with meteoric enthusiasm for nearly every activity - the talent show, another brother event, a trip to the store. I love the way you point your smile out as far as possible, at all the people, at every new idea and invitation. I am fairly certain your aura occupies at least three zip codes and shows up on most seismographs. You play the piano like you're figuring out a puzzle with your whole body. You are friend shaped. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">There is always a pretty big project knocking around in your elementary sized package. I appreciate when you call me to the window for a "beauty emergency," filling my photo stream with bright red cardinals, the fiery sky at dusk, an elaborate, glistening web. Your big brown eyes are particularly attractive, likely because they seek beauty in others, in nature. You are learning that you suffer way more in imagination than in reality. I could write a dictionary of all the words I have used trying to describe what it feels like to be your mom. I look at you and love floods from knees to my neck.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">When I forward think your future, I know you will not live alone in a house exploding with bath salts and Squishmallows and cat art. The intensity of being so full of yourself (and I do not mean that in the pejorative, I mean you are literally filled up with your you-ness) is a gift. <i>You</i> are a gift. Even though you were our fourth baby, you may be the one who finally, permanently, reordered the rungs on my priority ladder. The sun set later this evening, hot pink and bright orange, here and gone, and you asked us to sing at exactly 8:04*pm: eight candles on a slice of pizza and an entire palette of possibility ahead.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">As you skip off toward whatever lies ahead, as you get to know the galaxies of independence and growing selfhood, may you remember you are cherished beyond measure. </div><div style="text-align: left;">Please do let me know when you discover how to hold a moonbeam in your hand.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">All my love,</div><div style="text-align: left;">Mom</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp4HwQ6gS4eTPQxOxVzewmz1fwEWQeEIGV42KG95odsaGF4JkqIiuCJFf8c2TsP7FC165Nwgi6W6YxA9p4ORmWY7NVC109shPJcjiloJC0V1n6wWcu8j8A2AQ9_cMMjMukKxpGe80I2Jgwj6w_D1fjLMa7eQmggXxH1xuPSxdVJiNMXUXxKe5lyZJJJ2c/s4032/IMG_8371.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp4HwQ6gS4eTPQxOxVzewmz1fwEWQeEIGV42KG95odsaGF4JkqIiuCJFf8c2TsP7FC165Nwgi6W6YxA9p4ORmWY7NVC109shPJcjiloJC0V1n6wWcu8j8A2AQ9_cMMjMukKxpGe80I2Jgwj6w_D1fjLMa7eQmggXxH1xuPSxdVJiNMXUXxKe5lyZJJJ2c/w300-h400/IMG_8371.jpg" width="300" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ8oMjPW_vFQDA7PHaCaHV984hJvLo2QKusHTRElPzEjmHKC0Zk3CbUnpbUgeft7GEUJRp4SN7R9tvSfZ0NyiUhDIBKDlz19oAcWGyI72q8e6FBz3eL0uCXjlLXsqBOWmzsi-_UrGkeBE7_8wXpTRxt8C7lafU28SLd2ZH8zz0Fz_xu1QQeWCPsQ5orYc/s4032/IMG_8366.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ8oMjPW_vFQDA7PHaCaHV984hJvLo2QKusHTRElPzEjmHKC0Zk3CbUnpbUgeft7GEUJRp4SN7R9tvSfZ0NyiUhDIBKDlz19oAcWGyI72q8e6FBz3eL0uCXjlLXsqBOWmzsi-_UrGkeBE7_8wXpTRxt8C7lafU28SLd2ZH8zz0Fz_xu1QQeWCPsQ5orYc/w300-h400/IMG_8366.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">* <a href="https://betzfamilycolumbus.blogspot.com/2016/03/so-much-more-to-share-but-for-now.html" target="_blank">my notes show</a> you were actually born at 9:08pm but I did not want to let you stay up that late</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Jenni & Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990011700962332377noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749793872940636559.post-54349657912146937942024-03-07T06:55:00.005-05:002024-03-07T07:05:35.802-05:00bloom and grow forever<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIcrJh477DBXy3xj3qxZWGNi_WSKV0dIU6V8qJOi49Hjx6l6nSLu7We64S3LzGmlias3J4lQ0MuzfERhM6qWGy2lma-WR_QC4PgUSlYSkTYIkPJ214hiseSBFXysk-OCa2HTXfpsCTcc9slK2p_3JIRNYBRidyf1pUGR6a_PdhBnCHMqXxKaL_LIrKywo/s3116/IMG_8243.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3116" data-original-width="2337" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIcrJh477DBXy3xj3qxZWGNi_WSKV0dIU6V8qJOi49Hjx6l6nSLu7We64S3LzGmlias3J4lQ0MuzfERhM6qWGy2lma-WR_QC4PgUSlYSkTYIkPJ214hiseSBFXysk-OCa2HTXfpsCTcc9slK2p_3JIRNYBRidyf1pUGR6a_PdhBnCHMqXxKaL_LIrKywo/w480-h640/IMG_8243.jpg" width="480" /></a></div></div><div>Dear Tucker,</div><div><br /></div><div>I feel compelled, as the days rush toward yours and hers, toward ours, to notice all the beautiful things.</div><div>You do that sort of work year round, seeing things as astonishing down to their very atoms.</div><div><div>I like the way you strive for big goals in life but what I really admire is how you enjoy yourself along the way. As you get older, I do too, and I appreciate that your wonder hasn't been wounded by age. Sometimes you give absent-minded vibes, but I think maybe it's just hope stealing your focus, aiming it at all the possibilities.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>This phase of parenting - where you get taller and faster and stronger and way, way smarter than me - is a little confusing and a lot of fun. You introduce me to fascinating new things: books about rhinogrades and Latin guitar music and thrillers like Trap. Everything I learn about you makes me love you more. You do not exalt productivity in the way that some peers seem to do, and you do tend to take procrastination to its limits, learning later is not always a dependable place. I love the relaxed way you excel, never quite seeking to be the best, always aiming only to be yourself. Sometimes you find yourself in a book, the gift of getting a little bit lost - in stories and in the trees and even at your sock drawer. I love watching you find a path to yourself through music and travel, through science and debate. Although you were invited to make a birthday wish list, your epicenter continues to be people, not things. Plus cookies, you did ask for Lion Cub.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>You may've been born under a lucky star. For the first few months, life felt like little more than a thin stream of milk connecting my body to yours, a fragile thread of silk holding your sister near us too. Your story began with more character development than most Marvel heroes, and still today you're making courageous choices and championing the rights of friends. The memories you're making right now, in the woods and on the stage, may they feel like jewels sewn into the hem of a coat that might fit forever. There is a long red carpet unfurled in front of you, as you race toward the rest of your life. While you go erringly forward, may you always feel secure and connected to a lineage of people who love you so much.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Your kind heart and your deep intellect and your gorgeous smile grow immeasurably each year.</div></div><div><div>It is an honor and a privilege to love you into a future where you leave this house for good.</div></div><div>You are fourteen going on fifteen and you are one of our favorite things, as Rolf and <i>always</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mom</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_POx_JXW0rxMtP0CxV6a1FRcupVWvFjqprzemaRELABjxe-xjuFmTMpD4AMrZhAgdSOLR7mNd1VO1g_hdwAsdvonR5Eg_vdg-BW5XhJGPHbcQ0OaIyvucFNL11V1a9ZSO1-3-_9BGmtwjrisNUHix8M6mSVfczgjpuxORZGgi5wSWCkli8uVFQ5MJ9v0/s3744/IMG_8246.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3744" data-original-width="2808" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_POx_JXW0rxMtP0CxV6a1FRcupVWvFjqprzemaRELABjxe-xjuFmTMpD4AMrZhAgdSOLR7mNd1VO1g_hdwAsdvonR5Eg_vdg-BW5XhJGPHbcQ0OaIyvucFNL11V1a9ZSO1-3-_9BGmtwjrisNUHix8M6mSVfczgjpuxORZGgi5wSWCkli8uVFQ5MJ9v0/w480-h640/IMG_8246.jpg" width="480" /></a></div>Jenni & Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990011700962332377noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749793872940636559.post-64812800968405270822024-03-03T15:10:00.004-05:002024-03-03T15:16:32.419-05:00the important things<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7bm9Uer9C3nvuLOgQ92XOEEwItbCeXdMIrxWJFVny-0YrzGj0c9QSoe8ZVdI3Wc6q-31O5x-qW5CfoK-8va_BlP250A41yXkMcVLi0qDDg1Q7WZWUL0M-2KkANmvxKcvemIBFVd0s88T_MvaOx92EsQJFpz7kR2_kSGn9FOEu5xqdrCjHeGb1BYVwiJM/s5712/IMG_0685.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7bm9Uer9C3nvuLOgQ92XOEEwItbCeXdMIrxWJFVny-0YrzGj0c9QSoe8ZVdI3Wc6q-31O5x-qW5CfoK-8va_BlP250A41yXkMcVLi0qDDg1Q7WZWUL0M-2KkANmvxKcvemIBFVd0s88T_MvaOx92EsQJFpz7kR2_kSGn9FOEu5xqdrCjHeGb1BYVwiJM/w480-h640/IMG_0685.jpg" width="480" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">We had dinner with friends over the weekend; as they took our coats and asked how we were doing, I might've looked like a deer in headlights, delaying my response. Nothing is wrong. We are doing FINE. But did they want to hear about all the silly struggles or just about the shiniest spots, the effort to find black combat boots and powder setting makeup or the disappointment around not having an official birthday party, or about air trajectory success at Science Olympiad? About coordinating talent show skits and cakes for auction, or overtime shifts, or sore throats and injured elbows and seeds that did not grow. About how the yard overflows with tweens, too many to fit on the trampoline. About knocks at the door, invitations to the movie theater, to make bath bomb soaps, to ride in street legal race cars, to swim at the indoor pool. There is so much noise in my head, a million tiny details swirling together, that it feels almost impossible to distinguish what actually matters. The pantry is full, the porch railing is full. The calendar is full, our hearts are full. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I appreciated that the question was quickly amended to <i>How are the important things? </i>That question felt easy, and I knew the answer immediately. The important things are all good. 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div>It turns out our friends enjoyed hearing about the random knight helmet Tolliver found in the woods and the fake fifty dollar bills Tucker put in his pocket for casino night!</div></div>Jenni & Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990011700962332377noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749793872940636559.post-62141624914700563852024-02-19T22:27:00.001-05:002024-02-19T22:28:08.944-05:00I do have confidence in sunshine.<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;">Helping Tucker plan his sophomore schedule and reading a tall stack of senior scholarship applications, I notice myself wondering how all these young people seem to know who they are. Like I am 45 and aside from some flesh-bound manifestation of motherly love and maybe some stardust I have not a ton of confidence in who I am.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I like to sneak the cat leftovers at the back door.</div><div style="text-align: left;">I refuse to use actual moments of my wild and precious life reading a bad book. </div><div style="text-align: left;">But I will waste them cleaning the floor?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If Tolliver does not grow up to be a major league baseball star, he'll be very happy working as a park ranger and/or a history museum curator. Tuck's still interested in aquaculture but he'd also make a pretty solid piano accompanist. And Hank's current plan is to be an artist.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I am really good at rolling up a deflated air mattress and fitting it back into the original box.</div><div style="text-align: left;">And I am, apparently, the lady who not only feeds sourdough starter but also bakes and takes pictures of her bread?</div><div style="text-align: left;">I like to write.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Living with these three boys feels like a ready-made story factory, and most of the time I don't even know how to tell them all.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0YVvD6tR38O-XCmOU_rITlX-mPFwUOKUVo3wMZ9i8FHixuHDP5z8_MvJq0aifLKDX9sjxD7Y7rS43JJ0dxTEzqa6SXl9PWKDXqWSn9z6CAWNcNGexiriOVbfmOyYEqO3u6c9LEuSo0G4ZHVT0dU0oRSIr3QgIu72KTPc9K7BWuFIvrBJiMpyKAoBqH2w/s4032/IMG_8080.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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What we all seem to need more than fancy resolutions are steady rhythms and freedom to rest. It's been a long, slow weekend and the boys have been workshopping a piano duet. At some point I hear Hank announce that he has <i>a world class idea</i> as the younger boys resume a domino trail under the art table. They celebrate when all the rectangles topple and bump a peanut butter lid which rolls to trigger the next reaction. <br />Andy simmered bone broth overnight for chili and spent one afternoon assembling an air cannon with the science olympiad team. Tucker slept in and built a new Lego set and memorized lines for the musical.</div><div style="text-align: left;">It all sounds lovely, looks picturesque, the coziest winter weekend. There is so much happiness here.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I am not a new mom of a dead daughter anymore. I am a mom of thriving boys. Life is far from altogether terrible.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">While I sipped coffee after an early morning hot yoga session with my sister, Tolliver stood nearby whipping Hank with his cat's cradle cord. Hank, huddled in child's pose and clearly giggling, the hood of his thick wearable blanket pulled up muffling his voice: <i>Keep going, the hurting part is not getting in.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Later I wiped red residue from the wall behind the stove and washed an enormous pile of pots and pans, the kind of work that makes me feel like I exist. As soon as I sat down I was forced to investigate a curious stain on the throw blanket. It looked like someone had used it to clean up hot chocolate? I tend mostly to the mundane and sometimes to the sacred, and wonder if that's a defining feature of the job responsibility.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For a few days I've had a hovering unsettled feeling, perhaps the sole provenance of mothers who wish for a hug from daughters who can't even raise their arms.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This afternoon, one child swept into the mudroom with rollerblades on his feet and his chest puffed out, not quite an air of superiority but definitely some kind of gale-force wind, to announce that there was dangerous activity happening in the driveway. I do try to parent in ways that facilitate confidence but found myself hollering out the front door an immediate helmet decree for the downhill gorilla cart ice event.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm not really sure what kind of anecdata I'm trying to leave here, or for whom, but it feels like some sort of love story, even if it's not the kind I thought it might be, even when the hurting gets in.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The short, dark days of winter are my least favorite, for a myriad of very valid and tender reasons. 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So Much Happiness</b><div>Naomi Shihab Nye </div><div><br /></div><div>It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness. </div><div>With sadness there is something to rub against, </div><div>a wound to tend with lotion and cloth. </div><div>When the world falls in around you, you have pieces to pick up, </div><div>something to hold in your hands, like ticket stubs or change. </div><div><br /></div><div>But happiness floats. </div><div>It doesnāt need you to hold it down. </div><div>It doesnāt need anything. </div><div>Happiness lands on the roof of the next house, singing, </div><div>and disappears when it wants to. </div><div>You are happy either way. </div><div>Even the fact that you once lived in a peaceful tree house </div><div>and now live over a quarry of noise and dust </div><div>cannot make you unhappy. </div><div>Everything has a life of its own, </div><div>it too could wake up filled with possibilities </div><div>of coffee cake and ripe peaches, </div><div>and love even the floor which needs to be swept, </div><div>the soiled linens and scratched records . . . </div><div><br /></div><div>Since there is no place large enough </div><div>to contain so much happiness, </div><div>you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you </div><div>into everything you touch. You are not responsible. </div><div>You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit </div><div>for the moon, but continues to hold it, and share it, </div><div>and in that way, be known.</div>Jenni & Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990011700962332377noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749793872940636559.post-31127806445238038542024-01-07T22:29:00.001-05:002024-01-07T22:39:48.388-05:00to all the joy<div><div><div>I don't really like the idea of needing a holiday in order to change my life. I don't really like the idea of changing my life. Here we are, all five of us together at the threshold of the year that it will be.</div><div>And while declaring an intention is not horrible, I don't want to set myself up to fail. Plus I deplore the implication that who I am right now is not enough. We are enough.</div><div>In January, one goal might be to stay attuned to all the joy.</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy5F7oAAYq6zr7vONWcEASxjlCYtSMlFIgE1CfU3A5myotXD0-tYsMm1NG4FOozO60_OmnnFrXkVG8bbYK8uVOO6OkEtz5W5XvyR3_qIWzVUlvcm8kzz5soimwUnwru0XIUVgn9ToQBsEjl5neQU4pevaqi1LMAzMYyWY7uziE-nNJVr96fHgvtWEGP9s/s3022/IMG_7469.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2267" data-original-width="3022" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy5F7oAAYq6zr7vONWcEASxjlCYtSMlFIgE1CfU3A5myotXD0-tYsMm1NG4FOozO60_OmnnFrXkVG8bbYK8uVOO6OkEtz5W5XvyR3_qIWzVUlvcm8kzz5soimwUnwru0XIUVgn9ToQBsEjl5neQU4pevaqi1LMAzMYyWY7uziE-nNJVr96fHgvtWEGP9s/w640-h480/IMG_7469.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCJ-wKRx5N-_zMblSrNjnbl41FnSfZr3_m9bNhOWKR8HQq6Rxp-rPmPArdAnEBwJMPO6pHLDkEuvDncNeIJcOZCfOeov4Srhmq9fHcHEG3p8DtVZP0I91aB786vd8uZH4y4ckySx8kD75MQ5IoEq_vRegIn74qoVu_RFWbyrOPPPCsEsM5JgUBRaao06I/s5209/IMG_0114.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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No tree is nice too.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have to make a very concerted effort during this busiest of seasons, careful not to get caught up in the traditions and the consumerism. The idea, in December, that our affection must manifest itself in yet another sweater is reductive. Most of us don't need more stuff. Time is more valuable, and sometimes harder to supply. </div><div><br /></div><div>December is nice. Being done with December is nice too.</div><div><br /></div><div>Over break we've tried to make time for things we enjoy most - infusing magic and affirming words and eating cookies. We've also tried to give the boys the gift of rest. </div><div>We made time to be with many of our favorite people - a city bus ride to breakfast with a buddy, a Thursday movie matinee, gatherings with grandparents and cousins, a progressive dinner around the neighborhood. Plus screen time and bowling and like six trip to the fish tank store.</div><div><div>The boys had energy to devote to new passions and long-standing interests, aquariums and instruments, water colors and logic puzzles, summer trip planning and recipe trials.</div><div>It is hard to write thank you notes wrapped in wearable blankets and in the throes of cat's cradling and<i> I only want to do what I want to do </i>days, but in terms of living out values, we are for sure going to keep putting pens on paper and clothes in suitcases. 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There was also time over the weekend to match clean socks and research the Brecon Beacons, produce special presents and wrap a few gifts, make puppy chow and review for midterms. Andy and I even snuck out for our own grown up holiday get together, where the tradition is to meet in the back of the house with someone who knows how to play the piano. It is never not fun to harmonize with both solid friends from high school AND neighbors we barely know, all of whom are our favorite humans in the world on this night every year. Music is magic.</p><div style="text-align: left;">And on another note of seasonal joy, I was reminded that in the book "Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia" the notoriously confused housemaid tops the Rogers' Christmas tree with a mirror because āI would like to be a starā¦I guess everybody would." 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The world of guidelines and regulations is a big area of interest for him, and his head seems to have barely enough space for his ideas to roam.</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile Tolliver wanders the house in his wearable blanket, giving warm-as-toast <i>Little Fur Family</i> vibes. He mixes Nesquik to make chocolate milk, unless he's frying an egg for a sandwich. He adds arugula and tomatoes to the grocery list, to maintain his habit.</div><div><br /></div><div>Last night Tucker bowled in his first high school match, and today he accompanied the choir at three holiday concerts. I tried to send him from my spot in the audience tonight this smile that had a lot in it. You know, one of those smiles that said, almost word for word, "I'm so proud of you." He smiled right back, really big.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>These boys, who leave socks lying around and the toilet seat lifted, who are really loud and often stinky, who tell me they like my earrings and thank me for making bucatini for dinner. 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What You Missed that Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade </b><div>by Brad Aaron Modlin <br /><div><br /></div><div>Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listen </div><div>to the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas, </div><div>how peeling potatoes can be a form of prayer. She took </div><div>questions on how not to feel lost in the dark. </div><div>After lunch she distributed worksheets </div><div>that covered ways to remember your grandfatherās </div><div>voice. Then the class discussed falling asleep </div><div>without feeling you had forgotten to do something elseā </div><div>something importantāand how to believe </div><div>the house you wake in is your home. This prompted </div><div>Mrs. Nelson to draw a chalkboard diagram detailing </div><div>how to chant the Psalms during cigarette breaks, </div><div>and how not to squirm for sound when your own thoughts </div><div>are all you hear; also, that you have enough. </div><div>The English lesson was that <i>I am</i> </div><div>is a complete sentence. </div><div>And just before the afternoon bell, she made the math equation look easy. </div><div>The one that proves that hundreds of questions, </div><div>and feeling cold, and all those nights spent looking </div><div>for whatever it was you lost, and one person </div><div>add up to something. </div></div>Jenni & Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990011700962332377noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749793872940636559.post-87280587933816093742023-11-28T21:44:00.000-05:002023-11-28T21:44:23.652-05:00twelve<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvKTFuvQR9djs_jGQA0DDHKTM5rPNFf-HISedzLrPxFsXtC6-XDu76bwBC7lzJvRrS9O24fcJ3tRV-JfOhXwMnU3l0C0tCMtzRxeKw7hakZYUD34xT10YxzNtY8UV467tbxfqb59qZNSnAjZFrbNEpq5aj1RNx62U4mbptlSZTSqk1uq063u9AFzzWzQ/s4032/IMG_6385.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvKTFuvQR9djs_jGQA0DDHKTM5rPNFf-HISedzLrPxFsXtC6-XDu76bwBC7lzJvRrS9O24fcJ3tRV-JfOhXwMnU3l0C0tCMtzRxeKw7hakZYUD34xT10YxzNtY8UV467tbxfqb59qZNSnAjZFrbNEpq5aj1RNx62U4mbptlSZTSqk1uq063u9AFzzWzQ/w640-h480/IMG_6385.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Dear Tolliver,</p><p>You are twelve!</p><div>All summer long, from sunup to sundown, you were set free in the woods, meeting the world with slides on your feet and hands in the dirt. Most days you're required to attend sixth grade now, but after school and on the weekends you remain outside and impervious to things like cold and hunger and time. Even in the rain, you always seem to do something good with bad weather. It's like the outside is inside everything you do.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are both a wild animal, and the best boy. You are resolute and self-possesed, both cautious and paradoxically <i>not</i>. I hope to steer you in ways you might feel steadied by, but to mostly get out of your path. You have so much main character energy. You are a friend magnet, and your cousins' favorite playmate. You do not despise many things, but math homework is not your favorite and you tend to push around those papers like lima beans on a plate. I love the way freckles spill across your face, your red hair the dazzling expression of a recessive gene and the winning smile of a natural-born athlete. You step up to every plate and expect to hit a grand slam, and I'm not sure what fuels your impatience or grandiosity. It's okay to be a beginner - hard work, frustration, and discomfort all mean you're getting better. It would be tragic if the treasure and talents within you were buried under the expectations and opinions of others, or behind your own fear of failure. </div><div><br /></div><div>For your birthday we found a flight simulation so you could learn to take off and land a commercial 737. As a passenger I was overwhelmed by all the instructions for flipping switches and pressing buttons and pushing the pedals and pulling the yoke, but you handled it like a pro. We also have an appointment with the Ohio National Guard state historian, so you'll continue your traditional request to skip school, but we've managed to fill the day with a few otherwise enriching activities. Last week you visited the Violin Loft to trade for a larger viola, and your saxophone lessons with grandpa Rod are coming right along. When you're not practicing one of three instruments or playing outside, you're likely eating peanut butter.</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Tollie you are responsible and resilient and you are <i>just right</i>. While you blow out your birthday candles, we will always blow confidence your way! You seem to possess a clear trust, rooted in your body, the muscle and bones that hold you together and say <i>move. </i>And I have complete faith in your brilliant brain.</div><div><br /></div><div>Go outside! But please come home. We will always love you here.</div><div>Mom</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimV27Uh85lNp34fqItPSfLen1vMIBw9a_TYwXDpO_o0F78k_UFIyDum43YFJxV0GI9dXsfVXVDxLpFGYyDGS-5NnFlpwLiSZSWCfDtYXK-1fu3uhJUer3kbgE9N-E0uqu5GpsZnTLMzKvOLBJ8wuCg4w_KsAXbU3OFX3njuW-iwCty7fJis7aSiyfsXpc/s4032/IMG_6373.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimV27Uh85lNp34fqItPSfLen1vMIBw9a_TYwXDpO_o0F78k_UFIyDum43YFJxV0GI9dXsfVXVDxLpFGYyDGS-5NnFlpwLiSZSWCfDtYXK-1fu3uhJUer3kbgE9N-E0uqu5GpsZnTLMzKvOLBJ8wuCg4w_KsAXbU3OFX3njuW-iwCty7fJis7aSiyfsXpc/w480-h640/IMG_6373.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8JfsJbl5nzihLbdxVx6YlyznKXDu9mIkg9DwoGbRg-KScDtODT1GP_Yib6kaHXbGbSTMm1s4cSDop7Ojyxjec8egsd273Oy4FH9rldtQ73B_Nb5sZHGEJ9YYxJSKwJ8JOpK4jBXsQnw9sAK1pfmSIcFJVyhyphenhyphenI6kxXf0RqIoJWs1Fv2vij0cjzSNmKr5Q/s4032/IMG_7010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Hank's mood shifted as sharply as the track, from slightly satisfied to wildly disappointed, so when he needed an alternative to perfecting that course he kept himself busy folding approximately seventy three types of origami creations. A single Sunday afternoon of paper crafts can, it seems, feel like six months or more. Although I did try really hard to cast aside most of my motherly notions of mess, to leave all the clean up thoughts firmly inside my head, where they belong. Hank has ideas for hands and dreams for feet and I love that about him. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqitHdVVgBcmAFbSE6v_TS39cnPcxRqdcRxJH15IFlM69yERe4ZfGfPUzkzfmx5vOE_qi2MFU-sFAV652n_Bu3d4yhfj4bKISk_9M1Uuz30VvfbL4V-s3jL5yAICcz4LxYuvn9x8KueiHZcT9URLfzpDGr8UA_TLC1xCym2DkyUUEEoDIbWA1pUcdcnUY/s3518/IMG_6289.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3518" data-original-width="2309" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqitHdVVgBcmAFbSE6v_TS39cnPcxRqdcRxJH15IFlM69yERe4ZfGfPUzkzfmx5vOE_qi2MFU-sFAV652n_Bu3d4yhfj4bKISk_9M1Uuz30VvfbL4V-s3jL5yAICcz4LxYuvn9x8KueiHZcT9URLfzpDGr8UA_TLC1xCym2DkyUUEEoDIbWA1pUcdcnUY/w420-h640/IMG_6289.jpg" width="420" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJJiJnLG035lWjuXSTIvjx15Hr4YS9nQbMgOiA_hu9OZCN9VeKUxTnHJALMecIoWMQjl2Zk_ceXvtfpR_3v_T2RLo_j6aa1xx7PBWPLRsxITMOPqM8QfZIntTp6-wK-3XTnjey-JaMXXhNRRqZPZhfvOo11wXf_tuamvjDciSCPvOC_XC-LHvN6oS4330/s4032/IMG_6290.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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I do not want to be consumed by it, but I cannot ignore it. The most important thing may be to notice?</div><div><div><br /></div></div><div>Waiting for the bus, Hank admired one of Grandview's loveliest oaks. While the near entirety of the tree is bright red, around the streetlight remains a small gallery of green. <i>Maybe the lamp is convincing those leaves it's still summertime.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>I watch the lady at the grocery examine avocados, notice the neighbor girl tuck her hair behind her ear, feel the sidewalk chalk residue on my own fingers. The world is a castle built of people, I think.</div><div>And I see other people's other shoes dropping. </div><div>The part of me that is paranoid, the part of me that is wise, knows that nobody is fine until everybody is fine.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Hank shared a project in Adobe he's been working on at school. One slide said "World's best..." and then showed an image of the cat. The template had said "World's best mom!" he explained, <i>but I deleted that</i>.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>I've had plenty of practice trying to figure out a life that will forever not make full sense.</div><div><div>There are so many good ways to counter the uncertainty.</div><div>Keep the conversation on repeat. Listen to the narrators on the stage and in the corner, the ones at the edges and the fringes and the outskirts of town. Tell the story over and over again.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>There are people who live down the street from us, neighbors who see the same trees, who want to ban abortion or deport the <i>aliens. </i>There are humans who live an ocean away, enduring literal horrors at this very hour.</div><div><br /></div><div>I listen to Hank and feel my eyes get hot. I try not to sound too gushy, too awestruck with each phenomenal idea. Perhaps the first rule is to remain curious?</div><div>We are all better when we know more.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><i>You know what I want to dream about tonight? </i>he said in the shower. <i>A world where everything you think or write is literal. So, like, you could write H2O on paper and it would turn into water. Or you could say cake and you'd just have some, like magic. Oh, here's a good one: you know that constellation of the guy with an arrow? Orion? He'd be like an actual guy in the sky shooting arrows! That'd be so funny to look up and see. But they'd be peaceful arrows. Like they could say PEACE and he'd shoot them to spread it, literally.</i></div></div>Jenni & Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990011700962332377noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749793872940636559.post-20843275826488727972023-10-16T22:11:00.001-04:002023-10-16T22:13:24.361-04:00We're not trading bracelets or buying tickets<div style="text-align: left;">but the boys are in their cereal box is empty again era</div><div style="text-align: left;">Aquariums and terrariums and moss and piano music era</div><div style="text-align: left;">Plastic toy soldiers and rectangular electronic devices era</div><div>Stinky socks in the mudroom sink (please tell me this era ends?)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tuck is in his marching band era</div><div style="text-align: left;">Hank is in his rollerblade era</div><div style="text-align: left;">and Tolliver is still in his peanut butter era</div><div style="text-align: left;">We are forever in our overdue library books era</div><div style="text-align: left;">Flowers on the counter, children who-knows-where</div><div style="text-align: left;">graphic novels and gaga ball on the trampoline era</div><div style="text-align: left;">We are in our poke bowl, arugula with everything, hot tea with honey era</div><div style="text-align: left;">overwhelm and anguish and indescribable delight era</div><div style="text-align: left;">Finally in our sneaking out without hiring a babysitter era</div><div style="text-align: left;">I am in my motherhood is a job and a joy era</div><div style="text-align: left;">my <i>I love that for you</i> era</div><div style="text-align: left;">still solidly in my fall asleep on the couch era</div><div style="text-align: left;">cloth napkins and scented candles and hot coffee and cat on a lap </div><div style="text-align: left;">In my <i>I've been waiting for all of this and didn't even know it</i> era</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;">haircuts and Halloween costume shopping and the Homecoming dance</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">the snuggliest cat and cousin play, cursive practice and the choir coffee house show</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">baseball and marching band and new bedroom situations</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">the Move-a-thon and too many tomatoes</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">books and baking and joyfully busy boys</div>Jenni & Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990011700962332377noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749793872940636559.post-66280057307106947572023-09-20T22:05:00.007-04:002023-09-20T22:14:49.026-04:00not much is settled<p>The screen door is open, because fall in Ohio is perfect, and the wind blows off the counter all the scraps of paper with notes about what needs to be done. Life is a house of cards here, at its foundation the sort of calendar that stares back at me with bloodshot eyes. I used to think Andy was selective about coffee but he is temporarily working three jobs and I think he might drink caffeinated gasoline. I wake up feeling like my stomach has arrived at a carnival and is poised at the top of a plunge ride. In short, lots of things are simmering and not much is settled. </p><div>Still we are leaning into every little delight:</div><div><br /></div><div>Tucker thanks us a thousand times or two for proofreading his social commentary essay, stays after school to work in the Robotics room, admires the beautiful quilt that RoRo has lovingly made for him. There are suddenly hours he's still out and about after I'd like to be in bed. He is busy with marching band and football Friday nights, and I marvel at the way his here and now intersects with our there and then. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>Tolliver's days are full from dawn to dusk with baseball and music lessons and birthday parties with way more sugar than the lord may have intended. No longer his apple slicer, I've become an occasional confidant, daily doses of wobbly middle school uncertainty. It feels like, for both of us, his ratio and proportion review takes three million years and maybe forever to complete and I know it will all be over tomorrow and he'll be gone for good. I have a nose-stinging, lump in my throat sensation just thinking about it.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>The back door requests for candy to fill homemade piƱatas turn to Sharpie permission so surgical gloves can become finger puppets. It is literally one craft after another for Hank, nonstop. I watch his posse mix milk and marshmallows to create invisibility potions and all the girls I ever was flash past, a whole childhood held up to the light like paper dolls. I for sure want to file these memories of him in a shoebox in my brain.</div><div><br /></div><div>When I stop to catch my breath I sense so many sacred geometries, time folding back on itself, lives touching in straight stitches and generations connected by some cosmic chord. 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