All Together Now

Yesterday was the first time all four of my kids went outside to play together. One by one they trampled out the front door and down the steps. Bo and Revi, backwards in new shoes. Archer in the sandals he retrieved from under the chair by the door. Fable in her Mary Janes overflowing with sand.

Archer organized the soccer game. Bo would play on his team and Revi with Fable, but Revi couldn't care less about soccer and much preferred playing with dog bowls and eating rocks.

I feel like I'm always writing about a life unrecognizable. The disbelief in all of this. The "how on earth did I get here?" In this house with this husband and these children and the wet paper towel I've been carrying around for the last hour in my left hand without even realizing it. 

But yesterday, paper towel permitting, I didn't feel that way. I knew exactly how I ended up here and I recognized everyone. I watched their shoes kick and stomp and trip and drag and recognized us all.

GGC