Shucking Peas

Yesterday, we were having one of those "life is perfect" moments.

We were sitting at the table shucking peas.

I was chatting about how I realized as an adult that I grew up never giving the slightest thought to peas...other than they were always bought in the freezer section of the grocery store and then stored in our freezer at home.

Then, as an adult, one day, about 11 years ago, a friend said, "What ARE  peas, anyway?" This was a bright intelligent woman and new mother. I too, being a bright intelligent woman and new mother, was stumped. It was then that we realized that perhaps there was MORE to peas than just being stored in the freezer section in plastic.

After that, my little 4 year old buddy, laughed out loud and said (with that giggly look of wonder),  "BUT MUMMY, PEAS COME FROM PLANTS!".

And then I thought that life was even MORE PERFECT than the perfect that I thought that it was before and I wanted to take another photo to remember it (but by then we had filled the little bowl and needed a bigger bowl which was pink and peas look better in pink, don't you think?).

So, I did. And then, he did...

And (here's my point) THIS is why I LOVE this blog thing. 

Because, when I look at these entries I remember the GOODNESS in these LITTLE MOMENTS.

I remember how I laughed out loud today with my child. How we shared a special simple ordinary everyday moment and IT WAS GOOD. 

Sometimes, I look at the entry or an old entry during the day (is that weird?) and it just LIFTS me. And I remember...

Because what I didn't photograph and what I might be drowning in (in another moment) is the laundry that is never finished OR folded OR put away OR the vaccumming that needs doing (even though I just did it) OR the bills that are never paid OR the bickering (the bickering the bickering!!) that comes from wonderful siblings asserting their opinions and standing up for themselves and GROWING UP OR the kitchen benchtop that never seems to be cleaned off OR the dishes that never seem to be done OR the OR the OR the OR the... you get it.

This blog allows me and reminds me TO BREATHE and REMEMBER - 

THANK YOU

Comments

[Tonya]

Oh how I love freshly shucked peas! The bickering - drives me nutty as well. We need to relish the quiet moments when all seems right with the world!