day one at 41

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today I got to sleep in and oh, what a treat that was! I lay there for a half hour after waking, just enjoying the fact that I didn’t have to rush the day.

I showered and came downstairs to two boys with big smiles on their faces and “Marry You” by Bruno Marrs playing in the background (this is Xman’s new favourite song as he just heard it yesterday in a store). What a treat it was to see the floor decorated with little cutouts of stars, hearts and flowers in an array of colours. The boys directed me to the table to give me a card made by Steve on the computer but the boys had a hand in all the ideas.

this was perfect.

after reading the cards and getting handed a cup of nice hot tea – the best ever when Steve makes it! – I called Nanna and Papa and we chatted for a bit. It was very nice and I do miss them so. Can’t wait for May!

the rest of the day was just as sweet and I enjoyed the down time of not making food, cleaning, teaching or working. what a treat!!! I got to read and even knit a bit…oh, and play a game of Mousetrap where I was the first to get caught!

after dinner the boys (all three) danced around and then we took some fun family pics.

thank you for all the wonderful birthday wishes.

~love~

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…childhood – a book excerpt

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When I was young I had no sense of change. I did not know that ways of life could simply pass, or that entire peoples could be forced from their homes, that villages could cease to be. Time stretches out in our youth, and everything is simply as it is. Our parents and grandparents are always present, and do not seem to age. A home is a fixed, unchanging thing that can always be returned to, and children remain children, their pleasures and need simple and constant. The world is what it is.

 

a lovely little book about the loss of childhood

In the Orchard, the Swallows by Peter Hobbs

the boys’ first stop-motion video

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yesterday we were talking about plants for science and the different types of plants and how their physical appearances differ. so the boys went around the house taking close-up pics of all the plants and their leaves to compare. then they began to take multiple pics in a row so I mentioned  that they should try doing some stop-motion. yes, we digressed. now today, I have created a gif from their first try and they are thrilled. the subjects are their Skylanders characters for the wii game. they had a great time and I am sure there will be many more!

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L discovers the cure for cancer of the lungs due to smoking

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we were talking about the effect of smoking and L said, “If there was a pill like microphage and neutrophil white blood cells that eat bacteria, we could put the pill in water, wait until it evaporates, then drink it, then it eats up the smoky stuff in the lungs”.

I really didn’t know what to say. cute. then I had to look it up.

~smile~

pep talk from kid president to you

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A good friend of mine just sent me this video on youtube and I had to share it here. It’s all about being who you are and inspiring others to do the same too. Kind of goes along with my previous post a bit, I think.

Kids are the most wonderful of people and geez, God bless them, because if it wasn’t for them and their moxy I think we would all give up. We are born whole and ready for anything, wearing our emotions on our sleeves and showing our true heart but somewhere along the way, we become human.

I guess that’s the downside of growing up and not always having valuable and consistent role models, those who are inspired and inspiring. I try, everyday, to instill blessed values on my children, and they get it. But, I have to do it everyday so that when the human world of greed, ego and selfish-self-righteousness rears its ugly head they will be strong enough to already know who they are and know that all creatures are precious and no life is worth less than another. That goes for our fragile and amazingly precious Mother Earth.

~shine~

another inspirational quote about humanity

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“No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.”
–John Ruskin

~love~