Right Now

Right now, we spend a lot of time outside.  The Middle One loves to ride her bike, more than anything else, and she is incredibly good at it.

Right now, she sometimes visits her Daddy's office and turns on the dance music on the piano for an impromptu performance with an audience of one.

Right now, Nana and DD are paramount.

Right now, she still has to work on standing up for herself and making her desires known.  Right now, she has a beautiful sparkle that all too often is outshone with the blazing fires around her.  But in the stillness, or if you look for it, she's got a dazzle that's all her own.

Right now, The Kindergartner still loves her Momma and wants to be near.  She'll sit in the front yard and read her Bible alongside me as I read mine, and I suspect it has as much to do with time together as it does with the activity.

Right now, she still wants me along on field trips, for volunteering opportunities, in the library, at school store.  I'm still exciting and comforting and... welcome.



Right now, she's coming alive.  She writes stories and reads just about anything and composes songs.

Right now, she's different than anyone else; she's fully herself; and she's magnificent.

Right now, The Baby is still a baby... but just barely.  She wiggles and squirms and wants so badly to be a part of the action.

Right now, she an explorer.  She's discovering so many new things.  Right now, birds in the trees are all she needs for entertainment.

Right now, she nestles into me when I get her from her crib, she smiles easily, she babbles and coos and hums.

Right now, she makes us laugh in delight as she peers over the edge of the bath, with her baby bottom bare.

I don't know the specifics of tomorrow, and I don't need to.  Because, right now, they're still really young.  And right now, life is so, so sweet.

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