Everything changed the day she figured out
there was exactly enough time
for the important things in her life.
{Story People}
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Savoring...
Busy Week
It's wonderful to be sitting here on a lazy Saturday morning in my pj's with a cup of coffee - nothing scheduled for the day and no place that we need to be!! It's been a rather crazy week.
Last Sunday, after Ella and Si's soccer games, Justin drove up to New York to see Jim (Grandpa J). He's been in the hospital since September 17th. The cancer in the bones has flared up and it was affecting the nerves and he wasn't able to walk. He's been doing radiation and started a new chemo. Praying that this give him some relief and enables him to get around again soon!
Monday and Tuesday I was flying solo with the kids so we concentrated on the basics like homework, dinner, bath, books, bed. And then I have a bad habit of staying up WAY too late working when Justin is gone, which is fine until the alarm goes off at 5:50am.
Justin got home around 1:30am so he was exhausted the rest of the week. He and I are both really sucky night drivers.
Wednesday night I went to a concert with Donna and Sarah - Jason Mraz and he was awesome!
Thursday night I went to see author Kelly Corrigan with Margie. Donna was supposed to go too but got stuck doing some work stuff. Kelly is one of my new favorite authors. She wrote The Middle Place and Lift. I have quoted her books on here quite a few times. She has an amazing gift of putting into words the thoughts, feelings, anxiety and humor of being a mother, wife, daughter, friend and cancer survivor. Her entire talk left me both laughing and crying at the same time. It was fantastic. You can watch some of her videos here.
By end of the day on Friday, I was wiped out. I had been up until midnight or later every night of the week. Justin went out with the boys for the evening so the kids and I had a relaxing night at home. We watched movies and snuggled. It was perfect. After they went to bed, I watched Food, Inc. (We now have the Netflix on-demand and it is awesome - since we can never seem to get movies that we borrow back on time). Excellent but disturbing documentary about the food industry. Since reading The Anti-cancer book, I've continued to research and learn very frightening stuff about the food that we consume, and how appalling the industry treats our farmers. Today starts Local Matters week, encouraging consumers to buy and eat local foods as much as possible.
One of the highlights of my week was getting a free canvas 8x10 print of one of my photos. I had taken this picture in Hocking Hills this summer, and winkflash had a deal for a free canvas. It came this week and I love it!
I made some Thank You cards out of some of my photos and ordered (for free!) also. Can't wait to find another deal so I can get another print made!!
The other highlight of my week is that it is OCTOBER! My favorite month of the year! Beautiful autumn weather, pumpkin picking, hay rides, apple crisp, the pumpkin fest, some fantastic photo opportunities...and my anniversary. Yippee for October!!
Last Sunday, after Ella and Si's soccer games, Justin drove up to New York to see Jim (Grandpa J). He's been in the hospital since September 17th. The cancer in the bones has flared up and it was affecting the nerves and he wasn't able to walk. He's been doing radiation and started a new chemo. Praying that this give him some relief and enables him to get around again soon!
Monday and Tuesday I was flying solo with the kids so we concentrated on the basics like homework, dinner, bath, books, bed. And then I have a bad habit of staying up WAY too late working when Justin is gone, which is fine until the alarm goes off at 5:50am.
Justin got home around 1:30am so he was exhausted the rest of the week. He and I are both really sucky night drivers.
Wednesday night I went to a concert with Donna and Sarah - Jason Mraz and he was awesome!
(not my photo...stolen from his Facebook fan page)
I love going to concerts but I have to be very selective about week night concerts these days...getting too old!Thursday night I went to see author Kelly Corrigan with Margie. Donna was supposed to go too but got stuck doing some work stuff. Kelly is one of my new favorite authors. She wrote The Middle Place and Lift. I have quoted her books on here quite a few times. She has an amazing gift of putting into words the thoughts, feelings, anxiety and humor of being a mother, wife, daughter, friend and cancer survivor. Her entire talk left me both laughing and crying at the same time. It was fantastic. You can watch some of her videos here.
By end of the day on Friday, I was wiped out. I had been up until midnight or later every night of the week. Justin went out with the boys for the evening so the kids and I had a relaxing night at home. We watched movies and snuggled. It was perfect. After they went to bed, I watched Food, Inc. (We now have the Netflix on-demand and it is awesome - since we can never seem to get movies that we borrow back on time). Excellent but disturbing documentary about the food industry. Since reading The Anti-cancer book, I've continued to research and learn very frightening stuff about the food that we consume, and how appalling the industry treats our farmers. Today starts Local Matters week, encouraging consumers to buy and eat local foods as much as possible.
One of the highlights of my week was getting a free canvas 8x10 print of one of my photos. I had taken this picture in Hocking Hills this summer, and winkflash had a deal for a free canvas. It came this week and I love it!
I made some Thank You cards out of some of my photos and ordered (for free!) also. Can't wait to find another deal so I can get another print made!!
The other highlight of my week is that it is OCTOBER! My favorite month of the year! Beautiful autumn weather, pumpkin picking, hay rides, apple crisp, the pumpkin fest, some fantastic photo opportunities...and my anniversary. Yippee for October!!
Monday, September 27, 2010
The early days
I'm not sure why but there is something about this song that reminds me of the early days of JP and CK... :)
Florence explained the song's meaning on her MySpace:
"Kiss with a Fist" is NOT a song about domestic violence. It is about two people pushing each other to psychological extremes because they are fighting but they still love each other. The song is not about one person being attacked, or any actual physical violence, there are no victims in this song. Sometimes the love two people have for each other is a destructive force. But they can't have it any other way, because it's what holds them together, they enjoy the drama and pushing each others buttons...
...There was this one couple who were so cool, but so visceral and so intense. The guy never hit the girl, but I saw her lamp him a couple of times, and she'd always give as good as she got. But it wasn't really physical violence, it was more about the fact that their animal passion for each other was the thing that was attractive for them. It was how joyful destruction can be, and how alluring it is to be in a relationship so fiery. There was never a dull moment when they were around. I don't know how they do it! I'm a conflict avoider. I think I write about such intense things because I'm actually really bad at expressing anger."
Lordy, I'm glad we outgrew that phase!
Florence explained the song's meaning on her MySpace:
"Kiss with a Fist" is NOT a song about domestic violence. It is about two people pushing each other to psychological extremes because they are fighting but they still love each other. The song is not about one person being attacked, or any actual physical violence, there are no victims in this song. Sometimes the love two people have for each other is a destructive force. But they can't have it any other way, because it's what holds them together, they enjoy the drama and pushing each others buttons...
...There was this one couple who were so cool, but so visceral and so intense. The guy never hit the girl, but I saw her lamp him a couple of times, and she'd always give as good as she got. But it wasn't really physical violence, it was more about the fact that their animal passion for each other was the thing that was attractive for them. It was how joyful destruction can be, and how alluring it is to be in a relationship so fiery. There was never a dull moment when they were around. I don't know how they do it! I'm a conflict avoider. I think I write about such intense things because I'm actually really bad at expressing anger."
Well, the "animal passion" and "joyful destruction" might be a bit of a stretch but otherwise, it sounds about right.
Lordy, I'm glad we outgrew that phase!
Friday, September 24, 2010
My Sweet Girl
Yesterday her daddy got the pleasure of waking her up...
Justin (in his soft Daddy voice): Ella - wake up sweetie. Guess what time it is?
Sweet little Ella: Time for you to get out and let me go back to sleep!
We're converting to Catholicism before her teen years so that we can keep Holy Water on tap.
Monday, September 20, 2010
The Icky Sickies and Soccer
We've had an icky sicky weekend and start to the week. Justin and I went to a concert on Friday night (Matt & Kim - and it was great!) and when we got home, Silas had a fever of 102+. Tonight is night 4 and it was back up to 103.5 after the Motrin wore off. I hate when the kids are sick. Besides them being miserable, I end up getting up all throughout the night to check on them, then I'm tired and cranky too.
We spent a lot of time hanging around the house over the weekend. It's nice that we recently started getting the Netflix via the Wii! They have a lot of kid movies and it kept him entertained while lying around.
My Facebook status today was:
the routine has been: temp of 103+ --- whining/fussing ---- give Motrin --- temp drops to 99 or 100 --- jumping on and off the bed begins --- running like a maniac around the house --- temp of 103+
And that is pretty much how it went all day...
Last weekend we started soccer. Both Ella and Silas are playing this year and Saint Justin is coaching both teams (not because he really wanted to but because there were not enough parent volunteers for the boys' teams). It makes for a rather crazy Sunday because the games are back to back and there is less than 10-15 minutes between the games, AND they are at opposite ends of the soccer complex.
They both really hustle out on the field and do a good job of going after the ball. Ella's not afraid to use her elbows when the other girls start pushing her around.
We spent a lot of time hanging around the house over the weekend. It's nice that we recently started getting the Netflix via the Wii! They have a lot of kid movies and it kept him entertained while lying around.
My Facebook status today was:
the routine has been: temp of 103+ --- whining/fussing ---- give Motrin --- temp drops to 99 or 100 --- jumping on and off the bed begins --- running like a maniac around the house --- temp of 103+
And that is pretty much how it went all day...
Last weekend we started soccer. Both Ella and Silas are playing this year and Saint Justin is coaching both teams (not because he really wanted to but because there were not enough parent volunteers for the boys' teams). It makes for a rather crazy Sunday because the games are back to back and there is less than 10-15 minutes between the games, AND they are at opposite ends of the soccer complex.
Not sure why the one glove on Ella...
Silas doing his pre-game warm up
Love his face in the picture
Ella looks quite intense in this picture!
I'm hoping that Silas is back to no fevers tomorrow and we can get on with our week...until the next one gets it.
On Saturday, since I was housebound with Si, I tried to start the Blurb book again for 2008. I had downloaded the software a year ago. I got the blog "slurped" into the software and started arranging the posts but then ran into a glitch with the software and it closes everytime I try to open it now. So...now I guess I'll have to find time to take a look at that before I can proceed. No wonder I never get anything done...stupid technology!
Saturday, September 11, 2010
9/11
Not just on 9/11 but every crisp, autumn day with the a cloudless blue sky.
"In those days,
we finally chose
to walk like giants
& hold the world
in arms grown strong with love
& there may be many things we forget
in the days to come,
but this will not be one of them."
(StoryPeople)
Never Forget.
to walk like giants
& hold the world
in arms grown strong with love
& there may be many things we forget
in the days to come,
but this will not be one of them."
(StoryPeople)
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Schoolapalooza 2010
Just like I thought it would...summer has FLOWN by and it's back to school again. Time is a strange thing!
The kiddos have successfully completed the first week of school and almost a 2nd. The schedule was a little rough at first - 3 kids, 3 schools at 3 different times but it's starting to flow now...just in time for no school on Monday!
First day pictures - Mason is thrilled as always to smile at 6:40am.
Miss Boo is a big 2nd grader and her teacher will also be her teacher in 3rd grade. I can never remember the teacher's name (it's tough!) so it might take me this year and next to get it memorized!
We've been walking every day so far. I love walking the kids to and from school. The girls keep asking me if they can walk by themselves and I would, but I'd miss it too much!
Si is doing afternoon preschool this year. He was REALLY sad that he didn't have his old teacher but is right next door so he sees her all the time! He gets to ride the bus to school from Kelly's. He looks like such a big boy getting on the bus.
The kiddos have successfully completed the first week of school and almost a 2nd. The schedule was a little rough at first - 3 kids, 3 schools at 3 different times but it's starting to flow now...just in time for no school on Monday!
First day pictures - Mason is thrilled as always to smile at 6:40am.
Mas in all his Sophomore glory!
Miss Boo is a big 2nd grader and her teacher will also be her teacher in 3rd grade. I can never remember the teacher's name (it's tough!) so it might take me this year and next to get it memorized!
McKenna, Ella and Kelly walking to school
*Ella has her Skullcandy backpack. She absolutely refused to get any other...
*Ella has her Skullcandy backpack. She absolutely refused to get any other...
(thanks for the bus pictures Kelly!)
Hard to believe my baby is just a few months away from turning 5!
School must be really tuckering him out because he had an accident while sleeping the other night - while sleeping beside ME...and he peed all over my arm while I was sleeping. Then, after I put him back into his bed, he had a 2nd accident a few hours later. It was a rough week with his potty mishaps!!
Ella is starting Girl Scouts next week and I think she will REALLY like it and we'll get to sell the cookies - YUM!! We're all looking forward to a GREAT school year!
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