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.