Thursday, March 15, 2012

Forties Top 40, #35

This week Bethany has been running a fever, and hasn't made it to school at all.  She hasn't been terribly uncomfortable until last night, when I heard her coughing several times during the night.  This was actually one of the first favorites I thought of as I started to ponder my last decade, and it came back to me at 4:07 this morning.

#35:  Recovery from sleep deprivation.

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Not that this is a typical 40s experience, but hey.  It's mine.
Here we are, just before I turned 39.

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Having our kids close together seemed practical at that age.

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I am so glad that even in the days of film 
when I hadn't a clue what I was doing,
I took pictures like a crazy woman.

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Because if it weren't for those pictures
I'm not sure I would remember anything
about those days.

I am so thankful my kids finally turned into good sleepers.
After they were two.  Or more.

3 comments:

StitchinByTheLake said...

My middle child didn't sleep for her first two years unless one of us was holding her and we had to be sitting up. Thank goodness for a comfortable rocking chair! She had bronchitis the whole time so if we laid her down she couldn't breathe. Can you say nightmare? I don't remember anything else about those two years except that chair. It was an ugly green. Ugly. I love that chair. blessings, marlene

LauraLiz said...

These are fantastic photos!

Katie said...

Oh, being sick is terrible...having a sick child is even worse! I hope by now she's all over being sick.

And I'm with you on taking a massive amounts of pictures when they were little, even though the shots weren't that great and looking back I wonder why I took some of the ones I did! :) But I'm thankful to have them and agree that I otherwise probably wouldn't remember anything from those first few years, either! :)