Naked Life?

It's a quiet Friday night at our house, only kids in the house are H and R. P is out with his girlfriend and A is at a sleepover. It's so neat to see how the kids social lives have evolved over the last few years. P has a lovely girlfriend, and he is really good boyfriend, I have to say. Even though I am only his stepmom, I take pride in the fact that he is a courteous, affectionate and polite boyfriend.

A is at a surprise birthday party for a friend of hers. Seeing A with her girlfriends makes me remember my friends in high school and how loud and ridiculously silly we could be together. We would seriously get high off of just being in the same room together. And I remember the mom of one of my friends commenting on how we "wore her out" when we all got together. I completely understand that comment now. Needless to say, I am sooooo glad this party is at someone else's house tonight instead of here.

So, it is just H and R here with me and the hubby on Friday night. Which means C and I are enjoying a bottle of wine, H is reading and Ryan is playing LIFE. The board game. While wearing only a diaper. He spins the spinner over and over and picks a random card and drives his little red car all over the board. We will play for real when Ryan goes to sleep in a little bit.

Sidenote: Seriously, why does H love the Game of LIFE? It takes forever to set up and forever to play and it's not that fun and no one ever really wins or loses. Not my favorite game, but it's a H night so she gets to pick and that's fine.

Best Quote of the night:

H: (exasperasted, because she has spent FOREVER setting up the LIFE game board) Ryan you can't play LIFE!"

R: "Why not?"

H: "Because you can't play LIFE naked!"

For the most part, I agree.

What if?

So what would happen if I wrote about my day today?

What if I just brushed over the past two years, full of so many joys and just as many sorrows, and moved right into the present? A lot of stuff has stayed the same. We live in the same house, (though there is a new family member with us now!) and the house is still the source of a lot of headaches for me... I am still a graphic designer, though now employed at a new studio. I still love what I do and can't imagine doing anything else, except maybe being a stay-at-home mom. (I wish!)

I really enjoyed this blog when I was writing it regularly 2 years ago, but stuff happens, and shit happens too, and priorities get re-ordered. I tried starting a new blog a couple of months ago. It was about life as a cancer survivor living with a brain tumor. Seriously, who wants to read a blog like that? And more importantly, I didn't want to write a blog like that. I want to blog about my 2-year-old trying to master the potty, and P's senior year of high school, and A's first homecoming dance, and H's art class - she's drawing pears. She's been drawing pears for three weeks now. I am wondering when she will graduate to a new fruit.

And I want to blog about my amazing husband, C, who holds me together in every way imaginable. This month we celebrated our 5 year anniversary. 2 years ago, on our 3rd anniversary, we got the news about the tumor. And in the words of Forrest Gump, that's all I have to say about that.

Things are good now. And I want to blog about now. So what if I just started this blog up again? Would anyone read it? Will I even want to keep it going? I hope so.