A visit from our dear cousin

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cousin, family, postaday2013, writing

Our wonderful cousin Nancy the artist is staying with us for a few days. We always welcome her visits, she is so wonderful. Our kids love her, I love her and obviously my hubby loves her, they spend hours reminiscing about the good old days. I love listening to the stories. The baby girl loves talking to her “aunt” Nancy, they have such a connection and it makes me so happy. I think that every young person needs an adult to confide in who is not their parent, it makes their growing up much easier and Nancy is that adult for our baby girl. It gives me great comfort to know that our baby girl has someone who she can count on and trust with everything.

When Nancy came in last night, she had just come from attending a wedding and she looked so beautiful. She had a, to die for, vintage 1950’s dress, the cut was dynamite and the colors were stunning. It was tailored much in the style of an Audrey Hepburn dress and the colors were bold and bright, the backdrop was a greenish blue with flowers tastefully placed. She was a vision of elegance and class. Her hair was coiffed perfectly for the dress; she had her soft curls framing her face just so, and cut relatively short so that they were dancing around her face.

Daily prompt : A status update

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blogging, postaday2013, writing

Write up a mid-year “State of My Year” post.

Is it already mid-year? Time is going by too fast, if it went any faster, I would be suffering from a severe case of whiplash. I have nothing major to report, live is humming along like an speed bullet train. I would like it if time would slow down and that the days wouldn’t meld in to themselves so that Monday and Friday would have a bigger separation, instead of seeming to be one into the other in the blink of an eye. My mother often asks me if I am ever bored being a stay at home wife and mother and I have been answering in the negative for two decades now. No I am never bored, there is always something that needs to get done and I blame the constant state of busyness and having children as to the accelerated passage of time. When you live only for yourself and have only your life to measure time against, time will appear to dilly-dally, however once you experience living life through someone else’s experience, time seems to be unleashed and gets unhinged from your myopic lens and grows wider and broader into a warp drive effect.

So now after writing this, I am a little depressed because I know that the end of the year is only right around the corner. There are so many things that need to occur between now and then and that will only speed up the clock. The baby girl has to move down to Miami, the baby boy will be moving on with his music and then you have the normal holidays, birthdays and duties and such that before we know it, I will be getting my WordPress year-end stats report. How depressing. Someone pull the cord and stop this runaway train so that we can take a breath!