This has been one heck-fire of a summer. Seriously.
Horrible, terrible, fun, exciting, crazy all at the same time. The absolute worst part of this summer has been the indecision and then the horrible awful feeling that comes with feeling you’ve ultimately made the wrong decision – that the path that you have taken is wrong.
We made a LOT of changes this summer – our home, our kid’s school, Matey Moo’s path – having him evaluated and ultimately the Aspergers diagnosis. School started in a chaos of new regimens, entirely different surroundings, chaos (worth mentioning twice), disorganization and everything else you can imagine.
I definitely lean towards being ADHD and one of the ways I have found to deal with it is by keeping my surroundings really really organized – like crazy organized. If I veer from that path I shut down. Now, I’m finding that Matey Moo is pretty much just like me. He disappears into his head and his imaginary world. Both my husband and daughter also were not themselves.
What’s the good news? The good news is that we’ve settled down to a routine. Life is more organized – I feel on top of everything and like I can find everything. Our rituals are reestablished and I can now feel life returning to “normal” (whatever that is – read my friend Chris’ post which I think stated that really well – “normal is a setting on your dryer”).
So, for the last few weeks I have NOT posted a perfect Moment Monday – not that we didn’t have good times, but I didn’t really feel that calm or settled feeling I love. Until this past weekend.
Saturday morning I went to my crazy quilt meeting, which was quiet, but we did stitch a bit. Then my friend Dianna and I stopped at a wonderful estate sale on the way home and found some treasures. I stopped at a bead store to get my items to finish my bead Journal Project (this is the first month out of 8 that I’ve been late) and then I went home.
The kids were playing outside – we all decided to take a walk over to the lake. Our new environment is so family friendly – its’ fabulous. It was beautiful and so my perfect Moment Monday is more of a photo essay than words:
Sometimes you just know in your heart that you made the right decision – this was one of those times.
