This Face

Today was just awesome. We, collectively as a family, did absolutely nothing and are now refreshed and ready for the week (which will be a short work week - hurray!). We did find some time to make the most delicious chocolate chip cookies, however, so it wasn't a complete waste of a day.

And, this happened...

My little guy has been having teeth fall out left and right. It usually takes months for one to finally make it out (he's unsually patient), but this one just popped right out today. It's seriously a big deal in our house because he's my oldest and this is the first time I've really been through the whole losing baby teeth thing. I usually get ridiculously sentimental about the whole thing, holding his little tooth in my hand, thinking about how it was in his mouth when he was a chunky little one-year-old. Which is gross, really. I'd never in a million years stick my fingers in his mouth, but there I am cradling this little 7-year-old tooth...

It was fun getting pictures of him. He hates the flash on the camera and starts pulling faces like Chandler on that one episode of Friends when he and Monica went to get their engagement pictures...

This was one of my favorites, though:

He's such a handsome boy. He's got to stop growing up so fast. I just don't know what to do! He turns eight this week and will be celebrating his birthday Avenger style (I still have NO idea what I'm going to have planned, by the way). He has way too much faith in me and my party-planning abilities.
So, here's to my boy and his toothless grin. :)

Emerging

Don't you hate it when you start up a blog and then fall off the map?

I went through a sort of funk for about six weeks. No good explanation, maybe just the rebound effect of intense stress. And then, it took me about two weeks to sort of 'repair' from that massive funk. But, it has past and I'm in a better place than I've been maybe ever. And considering that there are some very unsettling circumstances in the temporal parts of my life, that's saying a lot. The things that are most important to me - my family, my marriage, my health - physically and spiritually - are being well tended. It's those things that I have absolutely no control over that are in a giant flux. But, what can I do about things I can't control? Just come up with a strong safety net...
Enough about all of this. Sorry if it's cryptic. I hate cryptic posts, but it's something I can't talk about because, frankly, I should have never known in the first place... Ugh, the life of someone who has their hands in more information than they wish they did.

Anyway. On to happier things. I've decided long term goals for me at he moment are absolutely impossible - unless I want to constantly rub my own inadequacies in my face. So, I'm focusing on little daily feats. After all, by small and simple things are great things brought to pass. My goal for tomorrow is to maintain this peace that I am so blessed with in such a crazy time and not let myself get rattled by the said uncontrolled circumstances eluded to above.