"As the Mind Rambles" ... 1st Installment

Do you, like me, find yourself with a little snatch of time in your otherwise crazy day, where you are at a standstill for just a moment -- at a long traffic light, nursing a baby, robotically loading a dishwasher or washing machine, pausing as you pull into your garage with a van full of sleeping kids, staring abjectly into the mirror, waiting for that stutter of your electric toothbrush to tell you that time's up... you know those moments? Do you get random thoughts at those times like I do? Probably not.
Admittedly, I am indeed at those times, the thinker of Random Thoughts. Deep, provocative thoughts. Utterly useless, trivial thoughts. Doubt-filled, insecure thoughts. Hopeful, heart-warming thoughts. Thoughts of all sorts.
Well, I've decided that it's time to start a post series; to list some of these... for posterity, I guess?

Thoughts this week (just a few for starters):

• Maybe we're not meant to ever figure out how to keep our house clean. My amazing Aunt Marilyn once told me, in reference to raising kids and running a household, that she thinks you just keep working at it and praying about it and trying, and changing up the system, and working at it and praying and crying over those kiddos and trying again, and changing it up again, and working at it some more and praying and trying... and then suddenly your children are grown and gone. You really don't ever "arrive"; where you've finally figured out exactly how to do it all, and then the rest of your child-rearing years are blissfully breezed through as you apply your revelations... Maybe we don't have clean houses until the only person responsible for making the mess is ourselves. With a little help from our husbands, of course. I'm really looking forward to that, actually.
  
• Why doesn't it bother anyone else in the house that there are ALWAYS crumbs all over the kitchen counters? I live in a house of Constant Crummage Creation.
• They say that those Olympians "make it look so easy". Don't you sometimes just want to know how hard it really is to do let's say... a triple axle? Or to spin yourself so fast that you get a nosebleed? I mean, really, some of what they do does not look humanly possible! But I would love to know what it feels like...
  
• Newborns are the most angelic creatures on this planet. They are truly, amazingly pure. How lucky are we to hold them, feed them, kiss them, love them? What a wonder... Motherhood.
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  Seconds after Elaina's birth...