I know, I know, I’m a bit late to the FMFparty but I’m here and because it works for me I’m post-dating this post. This way I can sandwich it between two reviews! (and yes, I still have the second review to get written as well!) Vacations, I tell you, they mess up a schedule!!! How does one Learn to be? I think that’s what I’m pondering for this week’s prompt using the word Be.
Learn To Be
Learn to be
emanates through my mind
pondering a word prompt
Difficult I find.
Life has been busy
I haven’t found my groove
Hubby and I chatted
this week a new move.
Four years it’s been
just the boy and me
We had our own routine
Now a man joins us see?
He’s hungry at six
I don’t eat till late
the boy calls me in
When there’s food to be ate!
The hubby’s not like me
working on the fly
A planner, then doer
He’s that kind of guy.
Learn to be together
again, more difficult than thought
planning around food and activities
at times a bit fraught.
Summertime busyness
is no help at all!
It will be easier
when does come the fall!
For now we will think
and talk out our lives
finding connection as
our marriage thrives.
Chatting a bit more 🙂
Can you imagine how hard it is to reconnect after four years of different routines? We went away this past week for four days. During that time we chatted a bit about how “I” am struggling with figuring out how to make it work again.  I want to just learn to be a part of a whole family again.
I want to have meals together again, and family game nights, but summertime busyness and everyone’s work schedules makes it more difficult to do eh?  But just because it’s difficult, doesn’t mean it isn’t doable!  🙂 I just need to remember we are a family here and can work this out together.Â
Proverbs 31:15-17
That’s a great post, Annette. I love your poetry. It is very hard to readjust, even for just a few days, when you both have a working routine that is necessary. Like you say, it’s necessary to make it work, but it can feel pretty exhausting. Your FMF neighbour at #3 this week.
very exhausting sometimes. 🙂 and thank you.
It’s not the way that she thought
a marriage ought to be,
but to her the Good Lord brought
a man not far from tree
from which his grinning forebears swung
in simian bright joys.
She found she had to walk among
beer-soaked good ol’ boys
for whom each Sunday was defined
in these three kinds of fun
(that we consider quite refined):
church, fried chicken, guns.
And though it all has made her bonkers,
she, a queen, stoops low to conquer.
you made me smile Andrew! Thanks!
We’ve gone through times of readjusting and relearning how to be during this past year as well. It can be challenging, but it’s worth it, yes? Being on vacation last week completely messed up my blogging schedule (worse than it has been for months now!) so I am even later than you! 😉
visiting from FMF#30
vacations can totally mess with our schedules can’t they?
Adjustments come over and over in a marriage and in life, don’t they? I have no doubt you guys will work through this one.
for sure we will. 🙂