Life is so good and so hard and so heartbreakingly stretching these days. I don't even know how to express the heartwrenching reality of it all. Raising these boys and being present, really present, not half listening to their conversations (and boy do we have a conversationalist here (ALEX)), but really really listening and affirming what they are feeling and doing and being honest and real and HERE; that is the challenge of my life right now. I used to think having babies or toddlers was hard...and it was, and I would end up exhausted by the end of the day... but this is somehow so much more emotionally and mentally demanding than I could have imagined. But it is so good.
This is our life: doing homework (so much homework), asking hard questions about God and life and heaven and science at bedtime (the hard questions are always saved for bedtime!), and taking care of Abuelita and doing tae kwon do, and spending time together. I have been trying to cut out tv and videogames almost totally because of some behavior problems at school and it is really helping. So that means more time to play and build things and color and draw and relearn how to not be bored without electronics to entertain them. They are learning to be compassionate and understand that sometimes we have to be with Abuelita in her house for long periods of time.
I don't know if I will ever get caught up with our pictures from this year but here are a few from dressup days at school. The first one is from Independence Day and the second from 60s day. Instead of doing Halloween their school does Crazy Week and they dress up daily for a week.
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