Filling Frames

SO....my kids are loving the new me. The new passive mommy that doesn't yell as much, that doesn't care as much if you spill your plate of chicken nuggets in the family room (which she told you not to bring in there). The Mommy on Meds sits at dinner staring at the baby as he tries to feed himself smushed pears and greenbeans. The Mommy on Meds doesn't seem to realize that he is far too young to do this...but really it doesn't hurt anyone to have smushed pear in the nose or the eyebrow. The four and three year old think it is neat how quiet and smiley Mommy on Meds is. "You don't even need an ice pack anymore Mommy!" the four year old squeals as the Mommy on Meds pours him a big glass of pink juice. Not watered down. WE LOVE MOMMY ON MEDS!

Today I wandered around the house filling all of the frames that have sat on dresser tops for the last four years....the whiteness of the slip of paper that came with it screaming out "PUT YOUR FAMILY HERE" . So, now the frames are filled with pictures from the last year. Mostly, they are filled with pictures of Aidan as a newborn since I happened to have a pile of them that never got past the junk pile on my desk 9 months ago. And what is true is they will never change. I will never go back and change them. They will always be of Aidan at one month old. He'll be heading off to college and they will still be in these frames.

Does anyone else have a box full of frames and pictures that are so outdated you just put them in a box out in the garage instead of changing them? You know the ones...goldish-brassy frames that are hinged in the middle so you can open or shut them and two pictures fit in them. Two horribly outdated pictures. I don't think any amount of Meds would make Mommy on Meds go out there and start changing all of those bygone frames. But you never know. Nuggets have fallen in stranger places.