in the midst of another cozy (i’m-pretending-it’s) fall day down here the other day, i perused through comcast’s free movies for a little background noise while i cleaned…and turned positively giddy when i found a jewel hidden between kindergarten cop and the mighty ducks.
little women, my dears. a delicious movie chocked full of petticoats, quill pens and yes…bonnets.
there’s this part in the movie i just love…and always have. jo, who travels alone to new york to foster her independence and persue her writing dreams, is having a discussion with a group of lawyers. after debating a subject quite impressively, one of the lawyers turns to her and says, “you should have been a lawyer.” she humbly smiles and replies….”i should have been a great many things.”
…and that line just gets me every time.
i should have been a great many things.
i’ve felt that feeling so many times as my interests have pulled me in different directions over the years. i wanted to be a writer. i wanted to go into advertising. i wanted to design things. create things. be a teacher. be a mom. be artistic. speak at events. take pictures. help little chidren. volunteer. be a homemaker. heck, i was pre-med for two years.
i wanted to be a great many things.
but, here i am, almost thirty, and you know what? i have no regrets. no discontent. i’m purely happy and right where i want to be.
i am a great many things.
i am a mother to the most amazing thing that walked the planet and i am showing her that women can have it all. all those other things? i’ve crossed off some, and the others i’m getting to…slowly but surely. with her right by my side.
but, for now….my little great-many-things is fulfilling everything i ever wanted just beautifully.
and her trillion expressions are like watching the northern lights to me… i am humbly awed by her beauty.
she danced today…like, literally picked her feet off the ground and threw them around.
yeah. she’s gunna be a bootie shaker.
and this may get redundant, but all i can say at the end of the day is….
i love her. i love her so very much and feel so honored to belong to her.
seriously.
…enjoying the my-heart-is-full things. ~k
p.s. kudos to my sister who today took being a great-many-things to new levels.
hear hear to the Carin shout out!!!
she certainly did her thing today…and I am enjoying living through her immensely:)
i love that line in that movie. so jo too!
this movie is delicious in its dialogue, and scenery. Whether tredging through snow or collecting flowers in a basket…
this is a good one and i understand exactly how you felt when you found that little treasure! close and loving sisters enjoying each other without tv, phones, technology, but with homemade plays, played out in a bedroom….i want to be jo!
ll is precious. can’t wait to see the little love bug!!!
ok, what did carin do?!?! she hasn’t posted yet! I guess I will have to be patient.
I love the dancing pics, that bottom pic with the leg is SO you doing the end to a new dance routine. I loved your post today. I feel so blessed to have grown up with you. I think if I hadn’t I might not be the little bit of creative I am today.
xoxo!
I love that watching her is like watching the northern lights. SO true.
Great great great photos.
OK, I just got up and had to come and tell you that I had a dream about you and Lainey last night!? You emailed me on a Friday and said I am bought a ticket and we are coming on Tuesday. I forgot to pick you up from the airport so we got off to a rough start and then we had a bubble bath in my living room with cubby and bug while drinking wine and eating pizza. My house was a mess and I was embarrassed. And really sorry that you had to take a cab to my house.
Good morning. That’s all.
This post just brought tears! Wow, I can see a baby Buhbby (okay, how do you spell that?) in the first one.
Kelle,
There is absolutely NOTHING else better in this world, then being a mom and only a mom. You will have no regrets. You are giving her the best gift ever,YOU…ALL OF YOU.
I wouldn’t have it any other way either. It’s what I was born to do, and you too.
Love the pictures! Lainey is looking more like a little girl and less baby-ish – I love all of her expressions!
i love little women, best movie!!!
love you, tessa dale
So I hope my dream doesn’t sound creepy…we were clothed during our bubble bath…We were in the living room and it was just full of bubbles…I’m just sayin’.
Also, I so know what you mean about the what ifness of life especially post kid.
Never saw that movie! I need to see it! Being a mother by far is the most incredible thing in the world and of all the many things there is to do being a mother is by far the best! Much Kudos to Carin that is AWESOME
aw. love the shout outs.
dig this chick’s comments made me laugh.
we WERE little women. we did plays and made stuff out of nothing and traded limes.
ok, so we didn’t trade limes, but we did do everything else. I want to be jo. and why couldn’t she have married laurie? I bet if louisa may alcott had known that he’d one day be cast by christian bale, she’d have changed her story.
love this post. inspiring!
You already ARE a great many things to me, Kelle.
Truly.
I’m still in the process of reading all your posts, back-to-front, and this post from 10-2-08 jumped out at me.
In it, you wrote, “i should have been a great many things. i’ve felt that feeling so many times as my interests have pulled me in different directions over the years. i wanted to be a writer. i wanted to go into advertising. i wanted to design things. create things. be a teacher. be a mom. be artistic. speak at events. take pictures. help little chidren. volunteer. be a homemaker.”
Sistah, it strikes me that now you are ALL of those things.
xox,
Momma Goose