No, that is not the new name of my blog, but maybe I should consider it. Anyway, I digress.
How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.”. James 4:14-15
We have now lived in Hacienda Bing for almost 5 years. In many ways it feels like 5 days. Life in the previous Hacienda lasted about 9 years, but it seemed to last so much longer than the time today.
Much has changed. Truth be told, we moved to this house to begin with because of a chronic autoimmune disease that Little Frau had been diagnosed with a year earlier. 8 years in Edmond town pre diagnosis, 6 years post diagnosis: it sometimes is hard to define reality, or what normal is. “New Normal”, anyone, anyone?
Which brings us back to the morning fog. We did several things to the house when we moved 5 years ago to make it our own. One of the things we did not “get around to” was fixing the bathroom. While the issue was mostly decor preference related, there were functional issues with a leak around the shower and some burned out light sconces. Finally, a failed shower pan pushed us off high center this year, which brings me back to my point.
Project now complete, I was looking for a “before” picture, and the one above was all I could find. What happened to little Alejandro? When did he grow so tall, and how that little boy face disappear? Is his childhood like the morning fog, here, and then gone? I fear that may be the case, although a bit of the mist of his youth hangs in the air, still.
So, I have my reminder. Fog burns away. Time passes. Children grow up. Our bodies age. Goals, priorities more like it, change over time. So does decor.
Now I just hope this decor, and the shower pan that goes with it, lasts longer than the years that my children will remain here to enjoy it.
