Joy and destruction of catching up.
Written by Nez, Posted in My Thoughts, Comments: leave another one
We need to catch up. We really do.
Last night a friend I have not seen since September last year came to visit us. We sat down and chat from evening till the early hours of the morning. Till 4am to be exact. Our kids slept on our laps, because taking them to bed was a major destruction to our chat. Zee also joined the party; she woke up for feed twice while we were chatting the night away. Cullo was sound asleep in our bedroom.
Since I had kids, I have a love-hate relationship with catching up. I love it because I like the moment of two friends offloading to each other, laughing at the old jokes or sharing their future plans. There is a holistic healing happening to me whenever I sit down with a true friend and share honest feelings and true life experience. It feels good.
I hate it because its totally destructive. Kids don’t sleep well. Schedules get disturbed. Every living thing in the house get disturbed. Like the day after seeing my friend I did not water plants, I missed my appointment at the salon, Cullo also get affected because he had to cancel his appointments and quickly go to the shops. Of which I should have gone should I not chatted the night away. I could not make Muli the pancakes I promised and did not express enough milk for the day. Nevertheless my heart was full and I was smiling all day long when I thought of some of our conversations we had. I still break some smiles few days later.
Like the friend I last saw in September so is my last post in this blog. Let’s catch up like I did with my friend. I promise I won’t be too long neither too destructive. We will take it one day at a time.
Sometimes real life happens and schedules are not followed. You can even serve your kids oats instead of the promised pancakes (and allow them kids to hate you for an hour and to tell you that you are not the best mom anymore, Ha!. Believe me that is just blackmail, they love you endlessly).
I cant believe we are in the middle of the first month of the year already. Like old friends always say after a good catch up ‘we must not leave it as long next time’.
Take care,
Nez