Just another manic.......wait, what's today?

Oh, wait it's thursday. i think we're still in april. maybe it's the 23rd? i think i need to start going synagogue, any synagogue will do really, as long as it's quiet, and there's singing that i recognize, and that smell is present, you know the smell, of old books and pages and pantyhose. i think it probably emanates from the torah scrolls, seeps through the velvet curtains of the ark. i always find calm in synagogue. it gives me some peace. wait, sophie needs one more hug and kiss....this could take a while.....
ok, i'm back, she just filled me in on what our "time together" will be tomorrow...something about a jigsaw puzzle...or something. we had a big day, filled with lots of activity. got to mow the lawn, wished i had some music while i did it but found myself humming dave matthews tunes. proudest monkey i think. we planted a tree yesterday and said a poem while sophie and huck danced around it. he can say bubble now, which is good. bubble and "no", which i suppose is good too. we also have a new dog, james, who doesn't quite know that he's ours yet or maybe we're just not his yet. he had been neglected, like my yard, which is coming together ok. i weeded and planted and used our leaf blower, which was cool, i like using things like that. i like making things happen, like wind. my son helped out too. i swear he gets cuter by the day. and he's so expressive. i hope he stays that way after he learns how to speak our language. i say our language because i'm beginning to think he speaks his own and that he's waiting for us to learn it. my husband is coming home tonight, which is good, but that means i won't sleep so well, which is bad, but then i'll crawl in bed with sophie, which is good. american idol is getting a little sappy. the dance routines are horrendous and the music they chose is not the greatest. why pick michael jackson when you know it can't be replicated. it's like elvis, or bob dylen, or john denver. we need more music in our house, i think i will commit to this weekend figuring out the damn stereo equipment. enough is enough. i hate not having it available to me and i think it's about time i did. so there. and maybe i'll make pancakes or waffles for the kids. so double there.

April 7, 2009

Well, we're in the middle of Sophie's spring break. As far as Tuesdays go, it was ok. Wok eup around 10....Carey took care of the kid's needs this morning. We've now reached that euphoric point when you can give them a bowl of cereal and cartoon network and you won't be bothered for hours.......now the condition of the downstairs when you wake up is another story, but sweet sleep is well worth it. My Mindi came home safe and sound, thank g-d. She had a wonderful time and got to dance her feet off. Her cousin had fun too and they had a great time together. It was wonderful hearing her voice again. I can really only go 6 hours or so before I start to get the DT's if I don't talk to her. It was 70 degrees yesterday and 48 today, so we stayed in. It was even too cold for Huck, who once he got outside was banging on the door to come back in. I fed the kids turkey hot dogs tonight and they said they liked them! 50% less fat, so I'm happy. Had a few wonderful days with my hubby home and will again have him tomorrow, but then he'll be working like a dog. Speaking of dogs, James is still not mine. Carey went and talked to the guy who owns him and told him how I have fallen in love with James, the man said he'd let me have him in the winter when he no longer needs him to guard his garden, Carey said a cheaper guard would be a fence, but no such luck. I can't even go over there and cuddle with him, I just hear his sad howl for me. I want that dog. What do you do when you fall in love with another person's dog?

4/1/09

Had a great visit with Ginger! Her girls were beautiful....and that Sedona is an old soul. Getting ready for Sophie's spring break!