Welcome to Write it Wednesday!

Today’s theme brings season’s front and center. Now, at first glance seasons may get you thinking about just spring, summer, winter and fall. This is a great place to start thinking about stories, but my goal is to dig a little deeper and find a story beneath the surface of a simple theme like seasons.

 

I am diving into to the theme of seasons and looking at how each season shapes and changes my life, love and joy. As I ponder this idea, I find myself asking questions like how is this season different from those in the past? How can I capture the true joy of this season now? Are there parts of my life that can change like the leaves of every season?

 Today I am capturing one of these seasonal life moments with words. Also, as I write the story I want to make certain that I am telling the story from a personal perspective. I plan on capturing this personal perspective by sharing the story either through what I perceive to be occurring or from my own personal desires. I have found that my writing is more honest when I approach a story in this manner.

Here is my story for today’s theme:

Right now the fall of 2010 marks a time in my life when I want to do more with my family as a family. I want to do more than just live in the same house with them. I want to create experiences and memories that will last a life time.

Maybe it is because Olivia just turned eleven and I am realizing for the first time that she has fewer years left with me than she has already spent. Maybe it is because I see that Natalie and Ella are both finally at an age where we can truly all go and do things together, without either Eric or I needing to stay home with the baby, since the baby just turned five and really isn’t a baby any more.

Regardless of the reason I know that this fall is filled with time together as a family, as we enjoyed going to our first Apple Squeeze Festival, traveling on the ferry and spending a fall day on the beach building driftwood forts, making handmade Halloween decorations, going to find pumpkins at Maris Farms and hosting our first annual Halloween party.

I want to completely enjoy this season of our lives as a family. Fall marks the beginning of a “new year” and a new set of traditions and ways to spend time together as a family. Fall, 2010 has blown in more than leaves; it has blown my family towards spending more time actively being involved with each other. All of us need this.

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Now, as I was writing down my thoughts on today’s theme I actually came up with a couple of stories that I want to capture. I started writing both stories and decided that the story above moved me more in the moment of writing. I have saved the beginning of another story and will come back to it when I am ready and feel moved to complete it. I LOVE that I was able to find more than one story for this topic.

I hope you share your stories on your blog or in the comments. Reading what others write is very inspiring.

Comments

[Nancy Barnes]

Thanks, Jen. Wrote something I didn't know was in me! http://lifescraps.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/seasons/

[jen mohler]

Oh, Nancy...that is beautiful! I feel like I know you and feel a kinship with your words.
What a great story about this season of your life.
Thanks for sharing!