Month: March 2007

  • today

    It’s All About The Egg


    ~~~~~






    One perfect egg.


     

  • trouble, on the double!

     


    If it is quiet, really, really quiet downstairs


    then your three year old is either:


    ~sleeping in a blanket, all adorable-like and vanilla-scented


    ~reading her Dora books to herself and saying “ebola” instead of “abuela”


    ~cutting her pants up into ribbons with a pair of scissors.


    guesses?




     


    doh.

  • Self Portrait Challenge


    SPC!

    (March challenge: self portrait using online tools)


    ~~~~~


     



     


    thanks Michele, for planting this seed.


     


     

  • Tagged!


    (by Tanya at the Motherwear breastfeeding blog)


    5 things you do not know about me




    1. My nickname in high school was “wedge” (enough said)


    2. I did not learn how to end a failing/unhealthy friendship until I was 34. Now, I know how.


    3. I smoked from 1987-1992 and I quit for love


    4. I am very claustrophobic but I can make myself get on a plane (it’s hard though)


    5. I am fiercely competitive at board games and I play to win.

     


    Bonus: mud season is here in full swing and our dirt roads are so messed up and bumpy that I now need a sports bra to drive on them.


     


       Want to play?

  •  


     Snow Melt, Friends, Movies & Blackberry Crisp


    ~~~~~


    ~The snow is melting now and the mud is beginning to emerge.  Hello mud, we’ve missed you.


     ~Some Xanga friends came for a visit yesterday and we had a wonderful, wonderful time!  Life is better when you have such good company to share it with.


    ~We’ve been laying low today; I have been snuggling with the kids watching “The Land Before Time” and “Spy Kids 2″ on the couch.


    ~We are tapping maple trees and have about 55 gallons of sap to boil down in the evaporator tomorrow (which happens to be Maine Maple Sunday)


    ~We had blackberry crisp for breakfast because it was left over and there was still cream and why not?



    ~and I sat there with my children and gazed upon them and thought how full of light they looked and how they glowed


     and I was teary and grateful but mostly grateful.


    ~~~~~


    He amazes me with his goodness and his gentle spirit.




    She is a child of many faces; all of them wonderful




    I will say that I am partial to this last one, though.




    “Nothing is worth more than this day.”
    - Goethe


     

  • because this is what I am thinking about…


                                               


    I Must Remember This


    ~~~~~


    I have few words right now but this Mary Oliver poem speaks to my heart and soothes my soul.


     


    “…And therefore I look upon everything
    as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
    and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
    and I consider eternity as another possibility,


    and I think of each life as a flower, as common
    as a field daisy, and as singular,


    and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
    tending, as all music does, toward silence,


    and each body a lion of courage, and something
    precious to the earth.


    When it’s over, I want to say all my life
    I was a bride married to amazement.
    I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.


    When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
    if I have made of my life something particular, and real.


    I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,
    or full of argument.


    I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”


    ~Mary Oliver




     



    Every day is a gift.


     

  • Self Portrait Challenge


    SPC!

    ( The challenge for March: make a SP using online tools)


    ~~~~~



     


     

  •  

    Wool, Whipped Cream And Other Stuff

    ~~~~~

    To answer a few questions:

    • my MIL had this wool washed and the rest (to come later) will be turned into roving at a mill.

    How to card wool:

    you take the locks and lay them thinly and evenly on one carder and then drag another carder across it in the opposite direction until the wool is cleaner and the fibers lined up nicely.

    lovely

    and then you can take it off the carder for spinning or felting or what-have-you.  I am going to use some of this for doll making and plan on dying some this summer (and have hopes for a spinning wheel in the next few years)

    I am also pulling out the very best locks to save for doll hair

     Bits of The Day

    puzzlemania

    good reading

    More boobettes (these are from the past few days)

    all my mermaids are pregnant and I have no idea why

    if I were to make a boobette for Megan Mullally, it would look like this one

     

    see?

    For those who asked, our mushrooms are from a kit, you can buy them online from a number of places and the kids love watching them grow!!

    whipped cream is always good

     

    this child is changing before my eyes

    Jesse’s new shield

    And more snow!!!

    (this is looking from our bedroom window down the hill, the driveway is on the left)

    I am quiet and happy and rested and pleased.

    and that is all I need.

     

  • blah, blah, blah

    March 17th, 2007

    ~~~~~

    My MIL has sent 15 pounds of fleece and so I am learning how to card wool.

    I’d better because 5 more fleeces are on their way!

    Roo’s Art

    And Jesse’s

     bathing monkeys

    pow-pow-pow!

    (the day in bullet points)

    • cheesecake and orange juice for breakfast
    • snow, another 9 inches of it!!!
    • snails pace race, puzzles, gameboy games
    • made bread for the week
    • made salsa for a few weeks (if it lasts)
    • brushed my hair
    • started mushrooms in basement
    • painted with the kids
    • bathed the kids
    • carded about 2 ounces of wool and it only took me about 1.5 hours
    • did 5 loads of dishes
    • helped Jesse make a wooden shield for knight fights
    • read Clifford books to Roo
    • read Hank the Cowdog #37 to Jess
    • thought about unpacking from my trip but could not bring myself to do it; there must be some parisian air in my suitcase and I just don’t want to have it fade.
    • dinner ( a mexican chicken dish baked with cornbread on top)
    • and now it is time for more stories and 500 snuggles and I am glad.

     

    These days are good.

     

  • Beautiful Red Dress


    ~~~~~