What’s going on in My Domestic Church

Well, I got the client! He started yesterday and it looks like a lot of work! Of course there is also the learning curve so blogging will probably be a bit lighter next week until I get the hang of it.

Calvin has been gone since yesterday at a swim meet in Columbus. I am so happy that my oldest child is a practical boy. This is Calvin’s senior year and I find myself mourning all of his “last times.” In fact, I am probably mourning them a lot more than he is. This weekend he will swim his meets and then he and his teammates will do all of their annual traditions, which includes bleaching their hair bright yellow! I went with him to purchase the hair color and found myself choking back tears, while Calvin stood there totally embarrassed by his crazy mother. He is looking forward to life after high school while I am a little sad about his completed childhood. His pragmatic view is balancing out my emotional one. I’m so proud of him. I’m also proud of Mr. Pete and me. We’ve almost done it! We’ve successfully raised a baby to adulthood. I think that is certainly something to be happy about this Christmas.

On the other end of the spectrum I am totally trying to enjoy my little velvet tank known as Rosie. She is Two with a Capital T! She climbs, she talks, she cries, she gets into stuff, she in general delights and exhausts me! I am trying to savor all of the little baby things she does, knowing that in a few years she will want to do other things, and a few years after that she will be grown like her brother.

I recently read somewhere that sometimes God seems to lengthen babyhood and the toddler years a bit more so that parents can enjoy them especially in this day and age when parents only choose to have one or two children and then deliberately avoid having more. But I think God makes babies and toddlers so wonderful because God is good and God loves life. He loves to bless with life. These wonderful times are God’s way of encouraging us to being open to his wonderful gifts and for being graciously thankful for these wonders.

So I try to treasure all of the ages and stages of all of my children, thanking God for their strengths and gently mothering them through the weaknesses, marveling at all of it while trying to imitate Mary by being open to God’s will, whatever that should be.

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