Hibernate Blog

No, we’re not pandering to Real Simple, though the spirit of their magazine matches our own approach to living and parenting. Life is fast-paced, whether it’s life with babies and marking the passage of time through feedings, changes and gurgles, or it’s life with bigger kids and scrambling to make it from one activity to the next and remembering the necessary paperwork, equipment and, dare we say it, kid. Ok, we haven’t forgotten a kid yet, but some days, it doesn’t seem that far outside the realm of possibility.

We try to face each day with the awareness that when all is said and done we are all people, big or little, we want to treated as such. It continually amazes me how something as simple as giving my kids something of their own, a “big person” chair made for little people, can make their faces light up. Pardon the slang, but “Duh!” Some days we do better than others.

This past weekend Melissa had been planning to take the kids to a movie, when she wrote to me late Saturday night it was to rave about having taken Sara to a show. A theatrical performance. Being both a theatre grad and a past employee of the Williamstown Theatre Festival I was thrilled.

We are incredibly lucky to have the Adirondack Theatre Festival literally across the street from the SaraBear office. The show they went to see is called Altar Boyz.

Sara so enjoyed the performance and the one-on-one time with mom that she drew a picture about the show and then spent all day Sunday playing dress-up. Her imaginative play was infectious and before long Nate had donned his fireman costume. Monday it was back to the grind, but the haze of a wonderful weekend of simply beautiful moments lingered. Melissa’s face, as she recounted the excitement of the weekend, went soft. No worry lines, no slumped shoulders, just the radiant peace of a Mom who felt like she’d slowed the hands of time and captured moments that will live on forever, for her and for her kids.

Joy, it’s simple, really. Go find some!