Changes

I'm having a restless night - due to a restless day - which involved a big mess in the kitchen, lots of help from Emily, and my caving in and buying a fake Swiffer - may all my friends and the green gods ( esses) forgive me. I just couldn't touch a mop today. Also, the Swiffer ish thing will help in my efforts to keep sir Kitt Katiest, the chubbiest, cuddliest, most persistent, dog like and stinkiest cat, clean.
That was a run on sentence. Here are some short sentences to make up for it. My apologies. Apolgies to my English teachers and the language at large.
Anyway - the restlessness caused me to change the blog template. I was never comfortable with the margines on the left. Let me know what you think - I thrive on feedback and suffer when there is a lack of it. I loved report cards as a kid... yes, just like Angela on the office. I'm not proud of this, just admitting it. Also, I ate double stuff Oreaos for dinner. You're jealous.

Willow's latest passion

Willow's latest passion is paper. She loves to touch it...


Willow loves rip it....


She loves to eat it.

all..



upYummy!!!!

Will blog for cash?

Hmm. ..
I am on a search for ways to stay home with Willow-bug that will not result in poverty or over exhaustion. It has also occurred to me, while filling out the interests section of my profile that my brain may have turned to mush lately - or maybe not as recently as I'd like to believe. It's been awhile since I was able to sit down and finish a book, attend a class of any kind, follow through completely on a ...

So I ran into this site while fiddling with blogger, looking for recipes, and trying to distract myself from my existential crises . It's called blog her ads and if you write for them they advertise on your site and pay you. I'm not sure how much but this bears looking in to.

The other thing is that I've decided to learn. Of course, I'm hoping to go back to school in January but I think that I'll start now with the following idea : I will learn one new thing every .. day? week? two days? Every day I think. A Buddhist friend of mine once said that he tried to learn three new things every day and it impressed me. I think I'll start slow.

So if I start a blog about learning one new thing every day -- with pictures of course-- I would be working towards both goals. Make cash at home, expand horizons. Wish me luck! Teach me things!

Happy talk like a pirate day!

Yargh! It's talk like a pirate day, which I celebrated by eating pirate cookies



Apparently, these cookies are a Canadian creation - all I know is, peanut buttery deliciousness abounds in every bite!

Willow celebrated with her usual brand if grrr ing and grunting - seriously, that child sounds nothing like pebbles and everything like a surly pirate. I noticed today that she probably gets it from me - ooops. Me and the gang at DnD night. I applaud her sturdy pirate - iness - here

For Max, who I know is a fan of all things pirate, and who I've thought of lots today, I submit the following song, written by the guys who came up with talk like a pirate day, for the enjoyment of the G rated set:

A Children's Pirate Shanty
by Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers
(can be sung to the tune of Monty Python's "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK" - or make up your own!)

Chorus
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
I stay up late - till half past three!
And that's a peg below me knee!

Yo Ho, my friends I have a tale
of treasure, plunder, sea and sail
my story's bigger than a whale
it gets so deep, ye'll have to bail.

Chorus
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
I stay up late - till half past three!
And that's a peg below me knee!

I like to fish, I like to fight
I like to stay up half the night
When I say "starboard" ye go right!
Me ma, she says, "Ye look a fright!"

Chorus
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
I stay up late - till half past three!
And that's a peg below me knee!

I've got no hand but that's me hook!
I pillage stuff but I'm no crook.
Me booty's in this chest I took.
They'll write about me in a book!

Chorus
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
I stay up late - till half past three!
And that's a peg below me knee!

And that's all there is to this song.
I hope it hasn't been too long.
A pirate's life might just be wrong
So grow up nice and big and strong!

Chorus
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
I stay up late - till half past three!
And that's a peg below me knee!

and if you'd like help talking like a pirate - go here : http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html

I'm off to read and starfish.

I love fall food

mmmm..
we just ate roasted pork and veggies - butternut squash that looked like cut up chunks of sunshine, sweet potatoes, carrots and onion . We drank a white wine called " Big and lucious" which I picked for the name and because the description said it's taste had " a hint of buttered toast". Yummy - and nothing like permanent marker Tyren!

It's the time of year when I can light candles at dinner time and curl up in a bundle. The house smells like good food ( we had the stairwell cleaned today so no more eau de kitty litter). squeaky is sleeping through the night and we are going to watch a movie and eat cookies until I fall asleep. Pirate cookies!

Perfection.

fairy houses and kitty cats

Emily moved into her new house in the Glebe with all of her roomates ( Maks, Alex and Tarek - and Emma almost lives there too -- ) so I thought I'd post a few pictures from our recent visits and some views from the lovely walk home.

Willow playing Piano with the littlest of the two new Kittens - the little fluff ball is a blur because she never stops moving, except when she's asleep. This kitten is 6 weeks old and actually crawled into a tiny orange sized hole, in Emily's room.

Emma and Willow playing piano - Emma plays really well actually, though she'll tell you that she can't. She played some Fiona Apple this morning after breakfast. Willow doesn't play so well, but she loves to pound the keys.

Emily and Willow in the new kitchen - Emily made us waffles and fruit this morning -- deelicios. I love that corner winndow and all the plants. I covet this kitchen. You might have noticed that Emily's hair is getting pinker and pinker. She's dying it with manic panic, one part at a time when she feels like it the ADD way! So far, it's actually red and pink and bright pink.
Willow and I were strolling home, when I noticed this " fairy house" in the bottom of a tree. Note the dangling fairy and the door. Very random as it wasn't right in front of a house. I think that it might be a work of guerilla art - so much to the surprise of a couple walking by, I stoped and stooped to take a picture. Arrow, I thought you might enjoy it.

This was the front yard of another house on the way home - Tyren, it seemes like your type of thing - there was water running down the rocks and it reminded me a bit of the Zen garden that we went to see. Sorta of mata nui ish too.. I love the yards in the glebe - wild flowers, rock sculptures and clover, so I'll probably be posting more.

This is a picture of Willow with the home made D20 that I was telling you about, Arrow. Pretty awesome!

and finally, dad and Willow - you can see in the back ground what I've done with the kid corner and bit of how the dinning room is set up. I think that it's much warmer looking. Tomorow, we'll be putting up Maks' art - I'll post more pictures then.

xoxox

Winding down

I'm winding down after several nights of being up since 1 am - I've been a bit restless lately. The good news is that the house is clean and I've decided to start a painting project, more on that later. The bad news is that I'm sleepy, but I figured I'd take the time to post some of my favorites of the pictures that Tyren took last week. Tyren, if you get the chance, you have posting rights on here too - so go ahead and add some of your own!




I really like electric poles right now - and the airplane trail running perpendicular to the wires is a nice contrast.

Here - the tree in the foreground adds interest and the street gives the picture direction
I love the street sign against the tree
I like the angel here - majestic

Agian here - the zig zag of wires and airplain trails makes me happy - and traffic lights facing in and out are interesting. I cropped out the edge of Dad's head : )

Tyren and Arrow, I hope school is going well - Max, I'll have to do a special pirate segement for you. So much love, big hugs and kisses xoxoxo

Raw food fest

Today, Willow and I went to the Simply Raw Food Fest in the Glebe. To my surprise, Willow loved the largely sprouted, dehydrated and juiced food even though there was lots of garlic - note the carrot and ginger juice all over her face- that was a particular favorite! Emily says that I have a Hippy baby - Yay




Emily was there....and so was Emma




and Tarek - though he wasn't actually sideways - I just don't know how to fix this.


I really enjoyed the food - which was largely free and all delicious and I would love to try out a few recipes, especially because the food looked beautiful and Willow loved it so much, but I think that raw food is something that I'll do every once in a while. Now that I'm a full on carnivore, my digestive system can't handle all the fiber : ). Also, can you imagine Dad's reaction if we switched to the all beets and sprouts all the time channel?

Hmm.. almost makes me want to try it!



Tyren - Here are some of the puictures that you took the other night:

For some readon , I love the electric pole - I'll post more tommorow - right now, the formatting is driving me batty! I'm off to drink tea.


Love you guys!

welcome home

Hey guys,
Dad and I are setting this up so that you can keep in touch from over there. Be patient with us - we haven't done this before and will be learning as we go! We'll post pictures and stories and you can comment back - suggestions are welcome.

For now we just send all our love, big "huggies" and kisses. It's getting late here - almost 1 am and I should really try to get some rest before squeaky wakes me up howling for souses.