Johnson Family Dish

Pardon me while I wax philosophical

The children and I went to see Peter Pan today. It was the free movie of the week at the AMC theaters. It was some newly made version which was very nicely done, we all liked it. It had a very fairy tale fantasy feel to it. In one of the closing scenes the father and mother are rejoicing that the children are home, back from never land. The Father is hugging his children and saying “the children are home!” It was such a beautiful scene. It got me to thinking that right now I am living my “Golden Age”, the times that I will reflect on when I am an old woman, the times that I will think of when I see my grand and great grandchildren. I am living my golden age and sometimes it seems so darn hard. For all of the beauty and satisfaction of raising children, it is a challenge, I cannot deny that. If only we could do away with the tedium of homework, chores, clean rooms, and everything else that we do to prepare them to be adults. We try to have moments like that, void of instruction, rules and such, so that they can just be children. Those moments never seem to be enough, and I like the house clean, and something like order to rule here. I think that it is hard to achieve a balance of both rules and fun.

After Peter Pan was over Kelcie said something to me that made me feel like I wasn’t doing such a bad job this summer. She said that Summer has just flown by and that she was not ready to go back to school yet. There are a hundred little deeply personal reasons why this made me feel good. But mostly to know that she was happy at home, that home was a place that she likes to be, meant the world to me!

HERE WE ARE!

See, its here! Amazing huh! Well you know simple pleasures for simple minds. I wrote the latest ‘Dish’ today so I am actually fresh out of new information, you are up to date. This post is really just a little experiment for me. I’ll keep you posted (ha, ha).