Stages of Life: Sometimes It’s Weird

We’re in a weird stage of life right now.

Joseph & I are both unemployed (aside from a yoga class I teach once a week to some old students of mine).  We live in my parent’s basement.  We have not sold our house.  We are no longer students, excused from our debt & poverty because of our commitment to education.

By all accounts, we’re bums.

On the horizon, however, things are looking bright.  Joseph is finally an attorney.  With a job.  It just doesn’t start for a few more months.

And aside from lack of funds, the present situation, I’d say, has many perks.

We are time rich.  We have wide open days to swim, read, play legos, make ice cream,  jump on the trampoline (did I mention my parent’s have one?).  Joseph takes the kids to the library, to abuelito’s garden.  Cousins come over to play.  Grandma & grandpa are always around.

When we came to Washington, it was a choice.  We could have stayed in Utah for the summer, but we felt that this was the right thing to do, despite many uncertainties.  We left most of our belongings in Utah in a storage unit & only brought 2 weeks worth of clothes for each child, a few books, & the main essential, probably more important than our toothbrushes: legos.

Hyrum & Asher could not live without legos.

Legos, my friend, are something each child should be blessed to own.

They provide hours of entertainment.  Spark creativity.  Teach kids how to engineer, build.  Plus they are fun!

Also, they don’t break easily & are fairly easy to clean up after & organize (this makes them mom-approved).

{Especially easy to organize if you have something like these storage bags.  Aren’t they genius?  Going on my to-get-someday-hopefully-soon-once-Joseph-is-finally-employed list.}

Another thing we do a lot of is reading.

Mali, only 3, is our family’s biggest reader.  We can find her with a book almost any time of day.  She doesn’t know how to actually read, but no matter.  She makes up her own stories.

Asher just learned how to hula-hoop.  He can do it for 1 minute without letting it fall.  Impressive, eh?

We start our day with books, we read books after lunch.  We read any time we are not playing.  We end our day with books.

A classic that we all enjoy, is Stone Soup.

{The version we read, here, or a more cost-effective version, here.}

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Have you ever been time rich, money poor?  Or money rich & time poor?  

Which one would you prefer?