flow

Today…

morning cuddles
the very finest thing about my days.
The smell, the feel of my kids in my arms in the mornings. It literally makes my heart flipflop, every time.

asking the kids after breakfast:

So what would you guys like to work on today?
my girl: What I'm working on.
(a story, of course!)

This being the perfect-est answer ever…


making lunches while the kids do their thing

my boy doing Life of Fred (everything clicking for him today), my girl writing her story, my boy looking up the Iron Ages on the Net (for his report on the Land of Kyre), laughing…

then my girl and my boy watching Iron Ages animations…more laughing and laughing


then meeting friends at the park

for story sharing

and more story writing

and
playing on the beach

then off

to after-school writers workshop
for more story writing

all the kids eased in and comfortable six weeks in, as I'd hoped,


then home

for lentil bolognese
(remembering to stir it so it doesn't burn!)

and more story writing,
always writing

and story reading after dinner

and showers…


And as I write this,

story writing in bed, kids cosy,
the night chirruping outside, stars blinking.

Lamps
lit by the beds,

and lamps lit inside me

from a day
of watching my kids BE.



Feeling light inside,

as I always do

when our days flow
just
like this.



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