kuangning | anoisblue's Shower Meme. (Reply)

eleanor asks:

If you could live anywhere, assuming that neither the kids or money are secure and aren't an issue, where would it be?

Wow... I have to pick one place?

I have a pet fantasy of buying a few hundred acres in the Canadian wilderness and carving out a small community, peopled with my core group. I would work downstairs in my home where the doors would almost never be shut and watch my children run through with the children of my friends.

If you could have one superpower, what would it be?

Time travel, please. There are so many things I feel like I've missed that will never come again. I want to see my littlest's first haircut and my daughter read her first word.

Again, assuming no barriers or restrictions, what would be the best job in the world and why?

I think I already have the best job in the world, though I seem to be on extended leave. I can't wait to get back to the work of being Mommy. Why? Because I can't think of a nicer way to touch the future.

What's the hardest part about being a parent?

That's an unfair question considering my circumstances. And really, I think that's a question every parent is going to answer differently. While they were home, disciplining them was the toughest thing. It took constant reminders that I was a mother, not just a babysitter, and there was no Mommy coming to collect them at the end of the shift. If I wanted kids I could live with, I had to set rules and enforce them.

Now that they're gone, of course, that's the hardest part.

What does spirituality mean to you?

It means the things I do to feel a part of the life going on around me, and the feeling of being in touch, plugged into that energy. It's trusting that there is a purpose, a Plan and a Planner, guiding my life, though I may not know what they are yet. It's knowing that I don't really need to know, I don't have to understand. Sometimes it's taking a long bath with the right music. Sometimes it's sitting down to a blinking cursor in an empty text field and doing my best to make the words carry all the meaning I intended them to have. Always, always, always, it's doing my level best to live my life in such a way that my friends could defend me if they had to -- but so that they never have to.

I will, of course, continue the meme. If you'd like to be interviewed, leave me a comment saying so. :)