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May. 16th, 2009 07:50 pmI've had the sort of peculiarly productive day that befits my odd priorities.
Woke up with a start 10 minutes before we had to leave to get to Annie's dance classes. Had all 5 kids out the door dressed with a piece of fruit in hand for breakfast and a bag of nuts and box of cheddar bunnies on hand for snacks, with shoes on all 6 of us and books and a dvd and a card and envelope, all that jazz, in 20. She was 9 minutes late (dance class is 30 minutes away).
Once she had went in, I sat and read the older four kids Fancy Nancy, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and the second chapter of Roald Dahl's The BFG, which I've started with Isaac and Aaron has heard before, from the driver's seat. Then I turned on a new-to-us episode of Postcards From Buster for them on the screens while I wrote a poem, edited it, rearranged the stanzas and then copied it down in the card I brought along (I always have a notebook in the van...). It is a card by a local artist, with a live oak tree on it.
It went:
heavy alliteration
heavy alliteration
rhyme
rhyme
none of that
x4
I sealed it up and drove to Grant's job by highway (15 minutes), left it on the dash of the Prius for him to find, and drove back to Dance Empire. We got bottles of water from the back of the hatch and passed around the snacks as their show ended. Talked about how it was a Colorado episode, and that's where Dama and the girls just moved to, while I crocheted (I keep my crochet stuff in my ginormous "purse", which is really more of a sack). Sang the ABCs. Annie came out with her second recital costume in tow. Talked accessories for the show. Passed her the nuts and water.
So we came home. I put sweet potatoes in the oven for a casserole with dinner, diced up a bunch of avocado and tomato and set it out for Jake and Elise to eat on these sesame terragon crackers that are my new thing. I sent Annie out to the chicken coop with leftover lentil soup and sunflower seeds, for the chickens, and to let them out to run around the yard while we're home. Made her and Aaron do the morning chores we didn't have time for before we left the house. Sang the ABCs again with Jake, cleaned Elise's poop off the floor (twice, I swear), got the latest Nana updates from my mother and morning sickness updates from my sister, on the phone. I tried to be supportive for my mother and have made an "I will take Brian for 2 hours each day Grant is working" offer to my sister, who is seriously laid up with what we strongly suspect is two babies. Made a cheeseless pizza Annie helped me eat, listed other food options endlessly for the boys. Teased Grant on the phone that I know he had Moe's for lunch, but not telling him how (I saw his cup in the Prius when I put the card in...) Fed the cats.
We checked the mail, and cleaned some trash off the front yard, and I putzed around online while they played pretend games. Then I put Return to Oz on the USB for them in the tv room.
And here I am, as the light fades. I never turn lights on until it's really dark outside. I like it when it's dim inside and dusk seems bright out there, through the windows. It usually impells us to go out and enjoy it while we can. And reminds us to put the chickens away.
I like it when I just honestly don't care that the floor doesn't get swept often enough.
Woke up with a start 10 minutes before we had to leave to get to Annie's dance classes. Had all 5 kids out the door dressed with a piece of fruit in hand for breakfast and a bag of nuts and box of cheddar bunnies on hand for snacks, with shoes on all 6 of us and books and a dvd and a card and envelope, all that jazz, in 20. She was 9 minutes late (dance class is 30 minutes away).
Once she had went in, I sat and read the older four kids Fancy Nancy, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and the second chapter of Roald Dahl's The BFG, which I've started with Isaac and Aaron has heard before, from the driver's seat. Then I turned on a new-to-us episode of Postcards From Buster for them on the screens while I wrote a poem, edited it, rearranged the stanzas and then copied it down in the card I brought along (I always have a notebook in the van...). It is a card by a local artist, with a live oak tree on it.
It went:
heavy alliteration
heavy alliteration
rhyme
rhyme
none of that
x4
I sealed it up and drove to Grant's job by highway (15 minutes), left it on the dash of the Prius for him to find, and drove back to Dance Empire. We got bottles of water from the back of the hatch and passed around the snacks as their show ended. Talked about how it was a Colorado episode, and that's where Dama and the girls just moved to, while I crocheted (I keep my crochet stuff in my ginormous "purse", which is really more of a sack). Sang the ABCs. Annie came out with her second recital costume in tow. Talked accessories for the show. Passed her the nuts and water.
So we came home. I put sweet potatoes in the oven for a casserole with dinner, diced up a bunch of avocado and tomato and set it out for Jake and Elise to eat on these sesame terragon crackers that are my new thing. I sent Annie out to the chicken coop with leftover lentil soup and sunflower seeds, for the chickens, and to let them out to run around the yard while we're home. Made her and Aaron do the morning chores we didn't have time for before we left the house. Sang the ABCs again with Jake, cleaned Elise's poop off the floor (twice, I swear), got the latest Nana updates from my mother and morning sickness updates from my sister, on the phone. I tried to be supportive for my mother and have made an "I will take Brian for 2 hours each day Grant is working" offer to my sister, who is seriously laid up with what we strongly suspect is two babies. Made a cheeseless pizza Annie helped me eat, listed other food options endlessly for the boys. Teased Grant on the phone that I know he had Moe's for lunch, but not telling him how (I saw his cup in the Prius when I put the card in...) Fed the cats.
We checked the mail, and cleaned some trash off the front yard, and I putzed around online while they played pretend games. Then I put Return to Oz on the USB for them in the tv room.
And here I am, as the light fades. I never turn lights on until it's really dark outside. I like it when it's dim inside and dusk seems bright out there, through the windows. It usually impells us to go out and enjoy it while we can. And reminds us to put the chickens away.
I like it when I just honestly don't care that the floor doesn't get swept often enough.
