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Monday, January 19, 2009
Our Wonderful Michigan Weekend
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
This is the view out Sal and Erik's front window. Beautiful lake effect snow, soft and thick.
Mia makes Broken Glass Jello. Sally found the recipe at The Crafty Crow; you can find it here.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Contrasts
The view down the toboggan run at Steitz Resort.
The girls on the beach at Ormond, on Florida's northeast coast, two weeks earlier.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Moving Day
We're going HOME-home, as the girls are calling it since they've slept in about twelve different beds since Thanksgiving, even though the work is not complete (who is surprised?) and we'll be sharing space with dusty workmen til who knows when.
It's been crazy and the crazy will continue but I did find time to post these pieces to Chicago Moms Blog. This Valentine was inspired by our trip to Steitz Resort yesterday to toboggan until we were wiped out and Mia's poor feet and shins were red with cold. And this post I managed to send out from a dicey connection in a Disney lobby at 11pm or so.
Good to be going home.
It's been crazy and the crazy will continue but I did find time to post these pieces to Chicago Moms Blog. This Valentine was inspired by our trip to Steitz Resort yesterday to toboggan until we were wiped out and Mia's poor feet and shins were red with cold. And this post I managed to send out from a dicey connection in a Disney lobby at 11pm or so.
Good to be going home.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Happy New Year!
I'm LOVING all the things I can do when I'm not writing, like keeping up with the laundry and giving the girls my full attention and making a little birthday party for Eleanor's fourth yesterday. She came into the bedroom first thing, before we had opened the curtains and asked in the dark, "Is today my..." forgetting the word for a moment. "Yes!" the three of us chimed, Mia having climbed in some unknown time earlier. Then we sang to her and hugged and kissed her even though the actual technical anniversary was around noon, almost to the minute of her older sister's arrival.
The new year's resolutions are to pull back the shoulders, pull in the gut and work the smile muscles. They really do help, as will the 30 minutes of walking I've been doing most days, loving the endorphins. Everything else, house, book, family, will fall into place, I have great hope and confidence. The endorphins again. And the November imagery that has gotten me through so much, let me tell you. Cause the firework arcs to all we desire are within our grasp. And everything we need is right in front of us.
Even though I linked to it in my last post, "American Tune" bears looking at again, even with Dick Cavett's dithering at the end. I listened again today and the song is so much about our America right now, I cried.
The new year's resolutions are to pull back the shoulders, pull in the gut and work the smile muscles. They really do help, as will the 30 minutes of walking I've been doing most days, loving the endorphins. Everything else, house, book, family, will fall into place, I have great hope and confidence. The endorphins again. And the November imagery that has gotten me through so much, let me tell you. Cause the firework arcs to all we desire are within our grasp. And everything we need is right in front of us.
Even though I linked to it in my last post, "American Tune" bears looking at again, even with Dick Cavett's dithering at the end. I listened again today and the song is so much about our America right now, I cried.
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