Balance and Love

Balance and Love  

Our love is a balancing act

A balance of you and me

A balance of chasing dreams

Or so it used to be when we only balanced these things

Our Love is now give and take

Sometimes it is quiet when it used to be loud

Often it is serving and laundry and dishes and dinner and changing our toddler’s diapers and

Helping our kinder Gartner with his homework or a project

Our love is intuitive

It is walking in the room feeling the weight of something heavy and asking what’s wrong?

Sometimes our love is simple and sometimes it is complex

It is growing up together and learning how to be adults and parents and husband and wife all at

the same time

It is building a career a family and a body of work simultaneously

And sometimes love is losing your balance for a little while as you get swept up and fall and

head into a hurricane

I know you’ve watched me lose my balance in love for our children and family, in motherhood,

In pursuit of dreams, and still we found our way back, still you’re patiently waiting and

sometimes

you get lost and I know you’ll find your way back again

Maybe when your young you think you want a love that’s wild and reckless and maybe it starts

out that way

But with every passing day I know I need a steady patient love

A sustainable love that stands the test of daily life

Our love is a balancing act of finding space to be us in the midst of screams and needs and

“mommy” and “daddy”

but our love is still steady

*This post is part of a blog hop with Exhale—an online community of women pursuing creativity alongside motherhood, led by the writing team behind Coffee + Crumbs. Click here to view the next post in this series "280 Words".