Three things

Today has been a rough stay-at-home-parent day. But in an attempt to get myself in a more positive frame of mind, here are three beautiful things about today:

1. A cloudy, cool day after a summer of such intense heat.

2. Watching several butterflies, including a monarch, float around the back and front yards. Seemed like monarchs were everywhere when I was a child, but now I rarely see them.

3. Seeing the first yellow leaves of fall aloft on the wind.

Note that all three of these things were outside, providing further evidence that I need to outdoors more for my own sake.

Daily Jonas

To his little brother, Silas:

"Hi little boy! How you doin' day?"

To me, through the back screen door as I walk across the back porch:

"Bye! Thanks for coming over mommy!"

Daily Jonas

Phrase of the morning: "I NEED THAT!"

Among the more entertaining uses for this phrase so far today:

1. My coffee, which I walked into the kitchen to find him drinking with great gulps at the kitchen table, like a miniature caffeine-dependent adult.

2. His penis, which was being put back into his diaper, much to his dismay.

Why I (don't) blog

I keep trying to figure out what this blog is supposed to be about before I really "get serious" writing in it. It's just another way of procrastinating. Once you write a thing, you cannot unsay it.

I keep putting off writing here because I haven't figured out what I'm about, and I don't want to make any false moves. And now I'm 30. Nearly a decade has passed since I wrote regularly. How long can the line run before I lose it all together?