So, since I've last posted, Michael got released from his calling as the Young Men's President, and we've all gotten used to this new year's school schedule. It's been very busy. Everyone at YM/YW misses Michael. They all tell me so. The kids are doing well in school, too. Megan's favorite part of school is lunch, music, and Spanish. Jacob doesn't tell me much about school unless I drag it out of him, and I have to be very specific about the questions I ask. But I get to help out in his class on Fridays, so then I'll get to see for myself just what he's doing and how he interacts while I'm away.
And as for Emma...well, she's just a ball of fun. Literally, she bounces from one thing to another, constantly curious about everything around her. She loses our keys, drags a chair up to the counter and pulls the scissors out of the drawer and cuts up the foam Winnie-the-Pooh chair, walks down the street pushing her "baby" in her doll stroller, eats lotion, sprays herself with things like fabric refreshers and gets it all over her skin, (for which I have called the poison control and had to make sure she's ok.)...I could just go on and on.
Her last feat was this morning. She called me. What I heard was..."Mommy! Blah, blah, blah,...." I called back, "What, Baby?" and then heard nothing. I went in search of her and couldn't find her. Again she called me and I searched and couldn't find her. Michael and Jacob joined in the search and couldn't find her. Michael went outside, I was in the front room, and Jacob was looking around perplexed when we heard her again. "Mommy!" she called. Michael came inside and said he heard her from outside and she's definitely in the house. I could have sworn she had been calling from my bathroom, but every time I checked there, she was nowhere. This time, Michael preceded me to the bathroom, and just at that moment, Emma popped up from the inside edge of the bathtub and said "Ahhhh!" Kind of like "You found me!" sort of a tone! That funny girl was purposely playing hide-and-seek! She laughed and laughed for about 5 minutes at her smart move! What's a mommy to do with a girl like that? I can spend billions of $$$ on baby locks and gates, and put things out of her reach as best as I can, but how do you make a 2 yr. old not play hide-and-seek at the most unopportune moments?! She's full of energy, that's for sure! And I love her to bits!
On a sadder note, my best friends mom passed away from pancreatic cancer last week. We went to the viewing and funeral. Kathryn flew in from Switzerland with her family. It was a sad time, and yet there was the sweetest feeling around her mom. She was finally out of pain. Celest said something interesting. She was mad at God for taking her mom, and was asking why; "why when all of her children needed her so badly did she have to go?", when the answer came to her so clear: "It's because all of you need her so much. This is the best way for her to be there for all of you." That message was profound to me. I'm not sure exactly how, but I understood it when she said that. Her mom's spirit was so strong there at the funeral, and Celest's comment made sense to me.
Life seems to just be that way. Just when I think things will be getting a little better, I find that sisters want to rule the house, best friends moms pass away, and babies figure out how to play hide-and-seek. And someone recently told me that it never gets any easier...you just have to adjust and move on. I guess that's how it is for everyone and I'm not exempt. I guess that's just Lems life.
Adelle Lems
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