... and by NYE Edition, I mean, "this post will be exactly the same as all of the others, except that I am writing it on New Year's Eve." True Story. My life is lame and pretty much the same day-to-day; I'm sure that's a real shocker to many. So, if you're someone who actually takes the time to read these every day, you're either crazy, or you really, really love me a latte. Mmmmm lattes...
How cool is it that my hundredth post is on the last day of 2016? Well, I think it's cool. I don't really have more to say on that; I just think it's cool.
Okay, so our last day of the year. Like I said, the day was pretty much like every other day.
I am not -- and have never been -- a New Year's kind of person. I think that's because I'm not a big partier. Well, that's not really true; I like games night type parties. I'm okay with drinking at those parties, but I have zero interest in parties where people just want to get shmammered. I would much rather be up all hours of the night, laughing my ass off at a games night where my fellow party-goers are as willing to make an ass of themselves as am I. That's my idea of a good time.
So, my number one "good thing" for this, the last day of 2016, is simply staying in on NYE. Being in our nice, cozy house is my version of the best way to say goodbye to one year and welcome in the next. We watched a movie, drank tea, and I folded laundry. A little domestic bliss action right there.
The second good thing would be how clean my house is since the cleaners came today. It looks and smells amazing. Like so many people told me I would before I hired a cleaning service, I now wonder why we didn't do it sooner.
And my final good thing is a repeat and will continue to be a repeat for as long as I continue to do this: reading both boys their bedtime books. Yes, sometimes it's nice when Jeff reads them those bedtime books and I can finish the dishes, or cleaning up, or just sit on the couch and scroll through Facebook, but (and I don't know how to explain this or why this is so) reading to them, all cozied up in bed (or in Gray's case, in the rocking chair with him on my lap) feels like one of the most motherly things I do. I love it. They love it. And it makes me feel really good about myself as a mom when I'm doing it. Maybe it's the just present, very uninterrupted time. Maybe it's that they are rarely calm, or sitting still. In those 15 minutes, it is quiet. We are coming down from the mayhem of the day and just being together. Yeah, maybe it's a combination of a bunch of those things. Either way, as I put them to bed tonight, I was glad that I was the one doing it.
So that was our day. I hope your last day of 2016 was wonderful and that you spent it surrounded by those you love and those who love you most in the world.
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