The in-between.
For me this time of year is limbo. Not back at work yet, but thinking about it. Kids close to returning to school, but not just yet. The in-between.
Books have been read, movies watched, friends and family held close. Laughter long into the night, beaches, pools, concerts and markets. Late nights and slow mornings. The luxury of doing nothing much.
I have barely run. I think I needed not to, just for a while. Needed to stop. Be slow. Read. Eat. Laugh. Love. Be.
This is it though. Today marks the end of the in-between. Monday is day one of work for me. The green and the blue eyed children will return to school. For the first time ever, to separate schools. Even when one was in child care and the other in school it was the same campus. The in-between childhood years are leaving us. As ever, my Green Eyed Girl is one step ahead of herself in that department, and for all intents and purposes the teen years are upon us.
On Monday I will step back into routine. Back into alarms, travel mugs of sweet earl grey tea for my morning commute and searching for school socks. With high school comes new routine and we will as a family test the water, tiptoe and misstep as we find our way through the newness into the way of doing that works for us all.
We are in-between childhood and adulthood now. The highs and lows of it all are before our family unit. I am looking forward to this year. The newness it brings us. The way both kids have taken charge of their own lives. The way they need us, the way we need them is shifting, changing. In-between the constant need for parent’s opinions, advice and basic support and the total independence of adulthood. Testing, trying out, working on being self reliant. We are still needed, hubby and I, by our children, but in different ways.
We are in-between.
And between us all is love.
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What a beautiful post.
It’s sweet seeing the way family life evolves as time goes on.
I hope Monday goes smoothly for all of you.
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Naomi Reply:
January 28th, 2012 at 9:58 am
Thanks. I’m hoping I can get myself out of bed! The first day alarm is always hard to hear.
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wow change is upon you.
i find change exciting and scary, it really depends on what kind of change it is as to which emotion is more prevalent at the time though.
i’m excited at the changes planned and happening in our lives this year, less weight, more money, less debt – big change of lifestyle and life, hard work put in this year which will make 2013 all the more enjoyable!
i love you last paragraph.
and i hope the path back to work for you next week is a smooth one.
~x~
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Naomi Reply:
January 28th, 2012 at 9:59 am
Change is an interesting thing. I do like it, but it can be scary. Here’s to a fabulous year for you x
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It’s interesting.. how the family evolves. I just visited a family with young kids..and as I look at mine (even tho they are not that old yet), I was marvelling at how my home now doesn’t resemble a kinder anymore… Good luck to starting work/school/runs again. I’ve been totally slacking off runs.
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Naomi Reply:
January 28th, 2012 at 10:01 am
It is isn’t it. And so exciting too.
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Oh you made me cry again.
Beautiful.
Thinking of you all as you step into the next chapter.
Good luck to the boy on his first day of high school.
Good luck to you my friend with a beautiful new group of souls to grow and love.
Mwah x
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Naomi Reply:
January 28th, 2012 at 10:01 am
Thanks xxx
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Beautifully written Naomi. Enjoy this in between stage and good luck for the first week back. x
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Naomi Reply:
January 28th, 2012 at 10:03 am
Thanks Jody. Think the early mornings may be a bit of a shock at first. Am sure I update about how it’s going here on the blog.
PS…
I love watching your 2 on your blog too… Reminds me of my own pair, it’s so lovely to see.
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OH this is a beautiful, whimsical, earnest bit of writing. All else I can think to write is the sound my heart seemed to make the whole way through, an agreeing “yeahhhhh”! x Good luck for Monday. I love Earl Grey.
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Naomi Reply:
January 28th, 2012 at 10:05 am
For you too, some big changes hey. Going I be some year. We’ll have to share a pot of earl grey soon. X
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Just beautiful. WIshing your Blue-Eyed Boy all the best for the beginning of high school. And I hope the year kicks off to a wonderful start for you all. x
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Naomi Reply:
January 28th, 2012 at 10:06 am
Thanks Megan, same to you as your lovely girl heads to kinder. X
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First day tomorrow too.
I’ll be thinking of you. Hope we can managed to keep some of the feeling of the in-between, it’s been nice.
xox
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Naomi Reply:
January 30th, 2012 at 5:07 pm
Well, I’m home. First day done and dusted for me. I have that just back to work enthusiasm. Hope it lasts.. as does the feeling of the in-between, for you too. xxx
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