Don’t Knock, Just Come Right In
May 14, 2010
Do your remember the feeling you had when you were a kid in the days leading up to Christmas? Lately I have had that feeling, a feeling of anticipation. There is an electricity in the air.
Except that I don’t have anything big on the horizon. No Santa Claus coming to bestow untold gifts upon me. No big plans for the immediate future. No big career plans. Truthfully, I have nothing going on in my life at this moment to be overly excited about.
And yet.
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The past two days have been windy. Really windy. Yesterday morning Miles and I were looking out the breakfast room window at the trees bending and leaves swirling. Oh let’s be honest here, we were also looking at the random papers and brightly colored plastic IKEA cups rolling around the backyard, too.
Miles grabbed my hand.
Let’s go stand outside in the yard, Mommy.
We walked out the door, hand in hand. We stood on the patio for a few minutes. He pulled his hand out of mine and ran into the middle of the yard. He threw his hands up in the air, leaned his head all the way back.
He howled into the wind.
Wooooooooooo! Do this, Mommy!
I went to him in the middle of the yard and stood exactly like he was, the wind whipping my hair into my face.
Do you feel it, Mommy?
As I stood out there barefoot, wearing underwear and a tank top next to my son who was clad only in pajama pants, thankful none of our neighbors can see us in our yard, I thought that if this were a movie it would be foreshadowing. The camera would zoom in tightly to our faces as we looking knowingly into the wind. Dramatic music would swell. There might even be a voice-over telling you that this scene was foreshadowing something big. Just so you wouldn’t miss it.
Something is blowing into town. Prosperity? Happiness? Good fortune? Mary Poppins? I don’t know what it is.
Just that it is.
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Every night I pack my kids their lunches for school. Their lunches are fairly predictable. We rotate through the same favorite snacks, sandwiches and fruits. Every once in awhile, though, I like to put something in them that they don’t expect. Maybe a candy kiss, or a Reese’s peanut butter cup, just a little something special that they usually don’t get.
Last week when I was grocery shopping I came across a box of fortune cookies. Who doesn’t love fortune cookies? Not the actual cookie, but the little fortune that comes inside.
I stuck a fortune cookie inside each of their lunch bags. And then I grabbed one for myself.
I can’t wait to find out what it is.
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Signs, they are all signs. We just aren’t exactly sure how to read them.
Here’s hoping for something wonderful!
May 14th, 2010 at 12:49 amdo you believe in what’s written in fortune cookies?
Chris says: Yes. Always. And now I am going to go play my lucky numbers.
May 14th, 2010 at 1:36 amWell whatever it is, even if you don’t want to take it up make sure you enjoy the excitement!
May 14th, 2010 at 1:52 amOoh, I love the wild feeling of standing out in a storm!
May 14th, 2010 at 2:16 amHere’s hoping for something amazing for you.
I can’t wait either!
May 14th, 2010 at 4:31 amMaybe you’ll move to France!
This is the first year you’ve had babies in public school right? I think what you’re feeling is the end of the school year. Summer is what’s a coming. Are you ready to have them all home again, all day, every day? Ohhhh, and doesn’t Miles go off to Kindergarten in the fall? It’s the end of an era for you of sorts.
May 14th, 2010 at 6:13 amSounds like summer vacation times 6. Followed by fall starting again and subtracting 7.
You could do anything (at least for a couple hours).
May 14th, 2010 at 6:15 amHope something good is coming your way — you don’t seem to post as often and I miss you! - hope it is because your life is full of other good things.
May 14th, 2010 at 7:34 amI think you are going to write that book we always comment about full of pictures of course.
May 14th, 2010 at 8:34 amMaybe someone’s about to buy your old house?
(apologies if I missed the sale–I can’t always check in and see your blog). If not the house, something else that is awesome.
Good luck with whatever the wind is blowing your way!
May 14th, 2010 at 9:53 amI hope it’s all good whatever is coming your way.
May 14th, 2010 at 10:50 amLove your writing…love your observations…love that feeling. Maybe because it comes along so rarely, and always randomly. Hope great days are yours.
May 14th, 2010 at 10:51 amI love Miles’ spirit and capacity to just let the wind blow on his face!
He is something else!
May 14th, 2010 at 11:16 amI can’t wait to hear either; I hope you’ll share when you figure it out.
May 14th, 2010 at 11:40 amOooooh! Fun. Coincidental. I love when the fortune reflects an actual emotion or premonition. You better go get the door!
May 14th, 2010 at 12:19 pmWe can’t wait to find out what it is either! OOH! A puppy! You’re getting a puppy! Or a whole LITTER of puppies! That would be exciting.
May 14th, 2010 at 4:44 pmOMGosh, I can feel it too (from reading your blog) and can’t wait to find out what it is!!
May 14th, 2010 at 6:11 pmMaybe you’re pregnant
Chris says: I definitely am NOT.
May 14th, 2010 at 9:52 pmFor the briefest moment, you scared me. I heard something today about tornadoes in TX and when you were talking about the wild wind, I seriously thought you were going to say one had hit you! So glad I’m wrong! I can’t wait to hear what your good fortune turns out to be!
May 14th, 2010 at 10:10 pmHave you taken a pregnancy test???
Chris says: Oh good Lord. I AM NOT PREGNANT
May 14th, 2010 at 10:38 pmummm….maybe you are pregnant
Chris says: NO.
May 14th, 2010 at 11:15 pmLove this. Can’t wait to see what good fortune is in store for you! Best wishes
May 14th, 2010 at 11:36 pmsounds like a perfect beginning to a Stephen King novel… Shall I start writing now????
May 15th, 2010 at 12:27 amWow, I found your blog about 2 weeks ago. I started at the beginning and read every post (I have no kids, (non-breeder)and yes I do have that kind of time). Just sayin.
You are an extremely funny and talented writer and I have enjoyed getting to know you and your family over the past two weeks. Especially HWCNBN or whatever acronym you are using for your firstborn.
Some things I have learned:
1)Never count out loud how many children someone has. Apparently mothers can count and know how many children they birthed
2)Become more tolerant of misbehavior of small children out in public. The grocery store is not the theater and little tired kids sometimes act out. Get over it!
3)In general give Moms a break, you have no idea what is going on that you cannot see. I will now forgive all of my friends that are continually canceling stuff because of “kid issues”.
4)Even if I had children I would not, could not home school and remain sane. Children need their parents at home and not locked up somewhere after they have snapped.
5)I am soooooo happy I live in sunny South Florida!
I look forward reading your blog in the future.
May 15th, 2010 at 5:57 pmWe’ve been feeling a little bit the same around here lately… Maybe it’s the anticipation of summer - sleeping in, or at least not having to get up and be fed, dressed and out the door by a certain time every day. Hope it’s great, whatever comes!
May 15th, 2010 at 7:07 pmOh, send that wind over here when you’re through with it!
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