saturday’s train

This is a train of thought:

I’m a nomad. Or maybe the idea of being one just appeals to me sometimes. It’s like I’ve come with some sort of internal map inside me that needs traveling. So sometimes I just want an RV and my family and miles and miles of road. I want to stop and see friends and meet new people across the country and I want to teach my kids that there’s a great big world out there, you know?

We don’t have an RV though and that’s okay, of course. Maybe one day we will. Maybe we’ll be those crazy people that other people whisper about–they are so weird-they just drive around. That would be okay.

Today I get to travel a not-so-terribly-long distance to The Big City, where we lived over a year ago now. (I still miss living there, by the way.) I’ll get to see “old” friends, go to a blog event and a baby shower, that sort of thing.  I’m so glad to be going. I love my family but they’re going to stay home this time, to go to swimming lessons and play the Wii. Saturday is Wii Day–the only day of the week that the boys get to play the Wii. They are so deprived.

They may not have much screen time, but they are getting a sister. I can’t quite wrap my mind around that but yesterday the hospital called to confirm that they got the paperwork they need for admitting me come June. It felt weird to talk about it when it seems so far away, but it will be here in a hot second, won’t it?

She will be here. In just about two and half months!

This means we’re starting over with the baby stage and sometimes that terrifies me and sometimes I even feel kind of jealous of my friends who have moved past the physically demanding newborn/infancy/toddler stage, I’ll admit it. But at the same time, I think I’d feel bad for myself if it were over. We’re just not done yet, and that’s okay. We’re not losing out on anything, we’re simply gaining something different. A person, actually. A girl person. A yet to be named girl person.

Which reminds me, the number one name in that baby naming poll I did awhile back was Ruby, followed closely by Stella and Elsie. I had said that we loved some of the names on the poll, liked some of them alright and didn’t even really like a couple of them.  I was trying to throw you off, so you wouldn’t know what our very most favorites are. But wouldn’t you know it? You voted for our top three.

Cool.

This ends my train of thought. Maybe I should call it an “RV of thought” for this week. Nah…

P.S. I allow Miles and Asher to use the fancy Nikon to practice photography. Sometimes I’m kind of astounded at their shots.

Like this one taken by Ash Man. I don’t know, I just love it:

The End.