It is snowing outside, you are fast asleep and I was just thinking about how people keep asking me if I am tired. If it is hard to get up in the middle of the night, be depended upon all the time, etc. The answer: Of course I am tired, and I hope that one day you get to feel this kind of tired because it is a good tired. It’s just like this:
Think back to a summer day. The kind of day that you got up with the sun and a bowl of lucky charms, finished with a five second teeth brushing segment and a mad dash outside to meet your buddies. The next time you walk through that door is as the street lights are coming on to get your flashlight for a game of spotlight tag. Then finally your ole mom whistles you back to the house where you return itchy from dried sweat and bruised in grass stains. Your palms are scratched from a few brier patches during hide and seek. The bottoms of your feet are tough like leather and a nice shade of brown. You want to be hosed down with cool water because the thought of a hot bath makes your mosquito bites tingle. However, you get on in and suck it up as your head is scrubbed with shampoo and the potatoes are scrubbed from behind your ears. After a rub down of calamine lotion and a bowl of ice cream you crawl into the cold sheets of your twin size bed and shut your eyes, exhausted, fulfilled, dreaming about better kickball techniques, and ready to do it all again tomorrow.
That is how exhausted I am and that is how fulfilled I am.
And trust me...looking at this face all the time is worth every level of exhaustion.
Think back to a summer day. The kind of day that you got up with the sun and a bowl of lucky charms, finished with a five second teeth brushing segment and a mad dash outside to meet your buddies. The next time you walk through that door is as the street lights are coming on to get your flashlight for a game of spotlight tag. Then finally your ole mom whistles you back to the house where you return itchy from dried sweat and bruised in grass stains. Your palms are scratched from a few brier patches during hide and seek. The bottoms of your feet are tough like leather and a nice shade of brown. You want to be hosed down with cool water because the thought of a hot bath makes your mosquito bites tingle. However, you get on in and suck it up as your head is scrubbed with shampoo and the potatoes are scrubbed from behind your ears. After a rub down of calamine lotion and a bowl of ice cream you crawl into the cold sheets of your twin size bed and shut your eyes, exhausted, fulfilled, dreaming about better kickball techniques, and ready to do it all again tomorrow.
That is how exhausted I am and that is how fulfilled I am.
Thank you for making me remember how fun it is to
live so hard you exhaust yourself.
live so hard you exhaust yourself.
And trust me...looking at this face all the time is worth every level of exhaustion.