Hear Ye, Hear Ye
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altarflameRecording that I had a great Thursday.
Seriously, I was happy all day without any ridiculous misery at all.
Some of the contributing factors:
-the beautiful weather, especially as it facilitates keeping windows and doors open, kids playing outside, and car windows being rolled down
-a couple of early morning hours spent slaving en masse really paying off, so that the whole house seems so CLEAN
-time to knit a few rows
-time to myself to write,
-and having so many ideas that I feel I might burst
-Elise looking ridiculously adorable in green cords and a brown knit shirt with gold pinstripes, in her curly headed, mischevious way
-nanny making a big Christmas tree collage and leaf and flower crowns and cut snowflakes, with my happy kids
-Naus Berry Farm being open again! I went today and got a dozen cinnamon rolls, honey wheat bread baked today and sliced fresh, and some more of those incredible fuzzy-looking brain coral esque flowers I had last fall...my whole house has had that warm, yeasty smell since I got it all home this afternoon, it's like curling up in a warm blanket just to breathe in here
-the XM Radio station Lithium
-the grocery store being full of cranberries, gorgeous green beans (finally!), pomegranates, and black berries on sale. The apples! The pumpkins! The mums and poinsettias! I am seriously drunk on the holiday season, and already mentally planning my Thanksgiving menu.
-Salvation Army bell ringers being back
-offering up my house as the next meetup for the natural parenting group I'm a part of, down here, and thinking of how awesome that would be
-emailing Nancy back (overdue), which just makes me feel connected to her
-still maintaining my success with no refined sugar or flour. I had a GI doc tell me on Monday how much I need to lose weight as my first step to being better, with or without more surgery, and I think it might have been what I needed, to some degree. I think I've lost like 2 pounds so far, but I'm trying not to watch it too closely.
Laura came over here last night and we made tacos for everybody and then she and I took all the kids over to the bookstore for an evening La Leche League meeting that ended up just being her, Kristin and I sitting around talking about female genitalia for an hour and a half while our kids ran around playing. It was fun :p Really though from how awful vaginal tearing in birth can be to how baffled by pubic hair toddlers are, and on to the chocolate molds of the Girls Next Door lady parts that were featured on E!, there's just no end to the talk about what my nephew calls "Da-paw-dan".
Ananda, Aaron and I are at the very harrowing near-end of The Order of The Phoenix (HP5). They've been gasping, yelling and pumping their fists in the air, when not tearing up. It's awfully fun reading them this stuff.
By jove, I think I'll go on and post pictures!
The first hotel we stayed at had this out front. It was the only cool part of the whole place. They had hospital bathrooms, I swear.
Outside the Salvador Dali museum -
And at Busch Gardens.
We had to wait like 40 minutes for a train to come.
Shaun.
The next day was "cold" and we had to go buy jackets at Target.
I had a really intensely awful Halloween, with ear pain, so I only took 3 pictures, while it was still light out. All their candy passing out and their own trick or treating happened way later.
When the bigger four kids all started this activity, Elise was not having it. She immediately started squawking at me to get out of the stroller and participate.
Nobody helped her at all. She just always wants to join in. I simply stood by and took blurry pictures.
Some of myself, when things got really boring for me.
But then we spotted Curious George, who Jake had happened to bring with him from the van. I SWEAR he was happy about this! Jake is just a scowling caveman and always has been, easygoing though he may be.
I'm sure this picture shouldn't seem so, so funny to me. But...it sure does anyway.
"Are you SERIOUSLY going to make me stand here next to BIG BIRD like I'm some preschooler? FINE!"
Seriously, I was happy all day without any ridiculous misery at all.
Some of the contributing factors:
-the beautiful weather, especially as it facilitates keeping windows and doors open, kids playing outside, and car windows being rolled down
-a couple of early morning hours spent slaving en masse really paying off, so that the whole house seems so CLEAN
-time to knit a few rows
-time to myself to write,
-and having so many ideas that I feel I might burst
-Elise looking ridiculously adorable in green cords and a brown knit shirt with gold pinstripes, in her curly headed, mischevious way
-nanny making a big Christmas tree collage and leaf and flower crowns and cut snowflakes, with my happy kids
-Naus Berry Farm being open again! I went today and got a dozen cinnamon rolls, honey wheat bread baked today and sliced fresh, and some more of those incredible fuzzy-looking brain coral esque flowers I had last fall...my whole house has had that warm, yeasty smell since I got it all home this afternoon, it's like curling up in a warm blanket just to breathe in here
-the XM Radio station Lithium
-the grocery store being full of cranberries, gorgeous green beans (finally!), pomegranates, and black berries on sale. The apples! The pumpkins! The mums and poinsettias! I am seriously drunk on the holiday season, and already mentally planning my Thanksgiving menu.
-Salvation Army bell ringers being back
-offering up my house as the next meetup for the natural parenting group I'm a part of, down here, and thinking of how awesome that would be
-emailing Nancy back (overdue), which just makes me feel connected to her
-still maintaining my success with no refined sugar or flour. I had a GI doc tell me on Monday how much I need to lose weight as my first step to being better, with or without more surgery, and I think it might have been what I needed, to some degree. I think I've lost like 2 pounds so far, but I'm trying not to watch it too closely.
Laura came over here last night and we made tacos for everybody and then she and I took all the kids over to the bookstore for an evening La Leche League meeting that ended up just being her, Kristin and I sitting around talking about female genitalia for an hour and a half while our kids ran around playing. It was fun :p Really though from how awful vaginal tearing in birth can be to how baffled by pubic hair toddlers are, and on to the chocolate molds of the Girls Next Door lady parts that were featured on E!, there's just no end to the talk about what my nephew calls "Da-paw-dan".
Ananda, Aaron and I are at the very harrowing near-end of The Order of The Phoenix (HP5). They've been gasping, yelling and pumping their fists in the air, when not tearing up. It's awfully fun reading them this stuff.
By jove, I think I'll go on and post pictures!
The first hotel we stayed at had this out front. It was the only cool part of the whole place. They had hospital bathrooms, I swear.
Outside the Salvador Dali museum -
And at Busch Gardens.
We had to wait like 40 minutes for a train to come.
Shaun.
The next day was "cold" and we had to go buy jackets at Target.
I had a really intensely awful Halloween, with ear pain, so I only took 3 pictures, while it was still light out. All their candy passing out and their own trick or treating happened way later.
When the bigger four kids all started this activity, Elise was not having it. She immediately started squawking at me to get out of the stroller and participate.
Nobody helped her at all. She just always wants to join in. I simply stood by and took blurry pictures.
Some of myself, when things got really boring for me.
But then we spotted Curious George, who Jake had happened to bring with him from the van. I SWEAR he was happy about this! Jake is just a scowling caveman and always has been, easygoing though he may be.
I'm sure this picture shouldn't seem so, so funny to me. But...it sure does anyway.
"Are you SERIOUSLY going to make me stand here next to BIG BIRD like I'm some preschooler? FINE!"
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Date: 2008-11-21 08:27 am (UTC)Glad to hear you had a good day today. =)
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Date: 2008-11-21 10:46 am (UTC)I don't know what it's going to be like here for the holidays, but I'm interested to see what Christmas is like in Germany. I miss the bell ringers already...and other fun American ways you know Christmas is coming.
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Date: 2008-11-21 11:01 am (UTC)Elise = Awesome
You = Gypsy
I wish I was not up this early. :(
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Date: 2008-11-21 05:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-21 08:05 pm (UTC)The last one with Annie? Holy cow I laughed so hard even before I read the caption! Hehe!