I would like to say that
yes, I did use this picture as last year's Christmas card.
That,
that is what greeted family and friends during last year's holiday season. Because
that just about summed us up at the time.
That picture was so us, for so many reasons. And because it
is pretty fucking awesome in all kinds of ways.
But in reality this was last year's Christmas card.
Which speaks to the reality of motherhood, of parenting,
that pair of pictures. Really fucking loudly.
That behind the scenes there is always a reindeer fight or something. That when the antlers come out it gets really real, really fast.
That parenting is
not all soft glowy and sepia toned.
Because when you're standing behind a perfect blond ponytail clothed in light coloured Lululemon pants in line at the grocery store. And the blond pony tailed Lululemon is speaking all sing songy to her spotless children who are singing the alphabet and working through quadratic equations, while my own are blissfully eating my grocery list, you feel a little lacking in the sepia department.
Children have no business being well behaved in grocery stores, it just ruins it for everyone else and light coloured Lululemon pants! Everyone who has given birth to more than one child vaginally and sneezes a lot knows that light coloured pants are a total fucking faux pas and that the industrial strength Lycra in Costco yoga pants are way more effective at holding in your gut. And anyways I can only get my hair in a messy kind of half pony tail.
But there it is right in front of you, that little sepia toned moment and it just totally fucks with your perception of things. And there you are wondering what it would be like. The sepia.
And so last year's Christmas card was that. Because, for a little bit, it was nice to be sepia.
This year? This year we are all about this.
Which is pretty much where we are at right now.
