Mayhem and the Mandolin

/ Katie

Y’all, my heart is so happy.

My parents came to visit last week. Graham’s work has been insane, and some nights he’s been up until 3:00 a.m. or later. We were struggling. We were both tired, our house was a mess. The cat’s feeling neglected. I don’t even want to talk about laundry.

We needed help. And we got it, and more.

My family has always done music. I’ve posted about it a lot, and I’m just so elated that Lucy seems to love music, too. My dad brought out his mandolin, and she was just fascinated.

Absolutely entranced. And she wanted to try it for herself.

She cried when he put it away. She’s never done that before, with any toy. (We got it back out and gave it back to her, of course.)

These little moments, they just keep coming. Lucy is an easy baby, but life around her has been generally chaotic. These sweet new memories make all that chaos seem like nothing at all.

8 thoughts on “Mayhem and the Mandolin”

    • My grandmother, towards the end of her life, expressed some regret that she focused so much on having a clean house and felt she should have spent more time enjoying the moments that made the mess in the first place. I think about that a lot. Chaos is temporary. Good memories, those are forever. 🙂

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    • It makes me so happy! I’ll be interested to see how she reacts to other instruments in the future. We’ve got a guitar, harmonica, and ukulele that I plan to take out at some point.

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