Order is the word of the day over at Miss Kate’s. I’ve two thoughts in mind as I’ve been pondering what to write but hubsters keeps interrupting my thinking as he’s bustling about occasionally asking me questions. He missed me while I away for my six days of work elsewhere. So I should expect these interruptions as part of the order of reconnecting eh? 🙂 And perhaps my thoughts will end up going in that direction rather than in the directions I was originally considering.
Order of Reconnecting
Time away
Work it calls
Another area
Trouble has
Can you help?
Travel reminbursement
Hotel and food
Paying time
Driving
Three hours away.
Certainly I can help
but First must bring
order to home
Helping a boy manage
Things when I’m not home.
Dad will help too
but when hard at work
a boy has to manage
feed rabbits, self
and to his own work.
Gramma one day
Came over to help
Cleaning a house
Bringing order to strife.
Open my return
With arms open wide
a hubster’s wild grin
and a son’s soft smile.
Welcome home
said both
helping unpack
Then order to house
Ensued without.
Checking the bunnies
Seeing wildness
in the garden.
Beans must be picked
Gooseberries be jammed!
As mom worked away
Glad a clean house
not to make
A son and a dad
checks in often make
It’s the order of
Reconnecting
The family you see
When mom’s away
Things not as should be!
Tiredness not withstanding
Things in order must make
So the time away
really was,
something of a break. 🙂
Additional Thoughts
I have to admit, I might have made it sound easy coming home and getting the slack taken care of. I did, at one point, let my tiredness get the better of me when I noticed the lad didn’t pick the gooseberries he’d promised to do. But forgiveness flows easily around here, especially since the Lord God so easily forgives me. 🙂
Imagine it… he removes our sin as far as the east is from the west. So great a distance that can never ever meet. How can I not forgive? How can my son not?
And besides, it all gets done evenutally. You gotta check out the lovely gooseberry jelly I made!
I’m still learning how to reconnect. Thanks for sharing!! This was lovely!! :). Deirdre FMF #19
it’s hard sometimes, to reconnect in ways that are beneficial eh?
What a beautiful picture of your family, Annette.
~Lisa, FMF #15
thank you. 🙂
I went unto another land,
the locus of the dying,
and it was hard to understand
commenting and replying,
for things are changed, new paradigm
has taken root and won’t be moved,
and it will take both grace and time
that connexion is improved,
for I have seen across the wall,
to that golden distant place,
but though my love has heard it all,
my words cannot impart that grace,
and some songs remain unsung,
division by a common tongue.
indeed
Love this–and the additional thoughts at the end.
Thanks for sharing.
thank you
Coming homes are so sweet and it sounds like yours was lovely, even if you had berries to pick.
it was good to be home… and the berries were picked! The lad helped too and we got a marvellous jelly.