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Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Looking Back

August is out and September is in. Fall doesn't seem to be really settling in yet. It's the transitions that are the most painful it seems. Still we are having fall outs of having newly moved to an apartment, my procedure and built up anxiety over the past. Sometimes to the point of over talking it.

Students are fully back in, parties are everywhere, coffee shops are crowded with laptops, charger cables, books, highlighters and lots of red, BUCKY shirts, sweatshirts and hats. There is some sort of peace that's buzzying mightily behind everyone's ears and inside their veins that's pushing everyone to congregate to study, to party, to misbehave and to fall in love.

Summer technically isn't over yet, and it sure does feel summer, though my mind is confused as it should be Fall and I am looking forward to fall this year.

My job as a nanny is going well. I've just begun getting used to the children, learning their quirks, personalities enough to know how to behave in order to follow the rules and also keep them happy. Compromises.

It's hard though. I've always understood mothers, their difficulties and trials, by observing, by reading and trying to put myself in their shoes. But this job as a nanny has opened my eyes wide and I am totally awake to the truth, the reality of being a mother, without being a mother. But when you become a nanny as a full time, spending about 10 hours a day with these children and trying to get house chores and hobbies and a job, it is so frustrating. Children, being their own beings and don't particularly follow up on rules all the times, simply because they're tired, sick, sad, not feeling well, whatever the reason may be, just like an adult.

We're settling in, seeing that moving in doesnt solve all problems and that we have ways to go. I definitely need to learn to exercise my anger and frustration of all the events that have culminated within my vassal.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Pumpkin Picking

Fall is here with all of its glory for just a few more days, before the gruesome truth of winter freezes us, slowly, starting from our extremities to our very spine and soul.

But until that devastation occurs, here's to fall, and pumpkins. There is nothing like a pumpkin latte, a pumpkin pie and pumpkin picking. They have to be some of my the most favorite things to in the fall, especially here in Madison, Wisconsin.

A few weeks back, we took the sun's invitation to be outside, play and enjoy the last sun rays for the next several months to come. With a few friends from our group, we found ourselves at the country side, walking in a farm that's quite literally miles away from any kind of town, and be lost in the feel good scavenger hunt for pumpkins.

Now, only if we can carve them in time :)