Completing the Family Once Again
My children have come home, once again completing the family puzzle. Rachel arrived from Australia a week ago, bringing stories of typical Australian bravado, where caution is constantly thrown to the wind to seize the moment. Daniel arrived at midnight last night, finishing up law school finals and making the trip from 70 degree Tucson through snowy Chicago, where the plane almost didn’t take off.
When they are away, there are no mysteries about who made the mess. In fact, there are not many messes at all. But I get tired of pristine and long for piles of laundry and sinks full of dishes and running out of milk and dogs tired from all the exercise Daniel gives them. It’s these absences that make me question how important my neat-freak pet peeves are and say to hell with all of them!
So for three weeks we will be a complete family once again. We will remember what each of us does to get on everyone else’s nerves. But hopefully we will be able to just remember and not make a big deal of it any longer. The family picture in balance and harmony supercedes all of the rules we once thought were important.
When they are away, there are no mysteries about who made the mess. In fact, there are not many messes at all. But I get tired of pristine and long for piles of laundry and sinks full of dishes and running out of milk and dogs tired from all the exercise Daniel gives them. It’s these absences that make me question how important my neat-freak pet peeves are and say to hell with all of them!
So for three weeks we will be a complete family once again. We will remember what each of us does to get on everyone else’s nerves. But hopefully we will be able to just remember and not make a big deal of it any longer. The family picture in balance and harmony supercedes all of the rules we once thought were important.
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