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Lazy Days of Summer…

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It has been a good week.†† Kei and I cleaned OUT her room.† We moved everything out and then rearranged.† What a job!† But she loves it.

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We had my nephew spend the night a couple of nights and he was a blast.† He helped me clean off the balcony and various other “I need a strong dude” chores.† We sat on the balcony and had a fire.† It was so great.

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We went to Esther’s for a day of food, laughter and play.

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We moms had to get our “silly on” too.

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Then Seth taught Kei to play Poker.† Of course, she had to ‘dress’ the part.† Esther said it was a fine example of learning Math and symbols.† E can find the ‘learning’ in anything!!

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Kei is so excited about going to see “Beauty and The Beast” at the Princess.† We can’t wait.

Happy Weekend!

Life

The Winds of Change….

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“Once upon a time, there was a quiet little village in the French countryside, whose people believed in TranquilitÈ – Tranquility. If you lived in this village, you understood what was expected of you. You knew your place in the scheme of things. And if you happened to forget, someone would help remind you. In this village, if you saw something you weren’t supposed to see, you learned to look the other way. If perchance your hopes had been disappointed, you learned never to ask for more. So through good times and bad, famine and feast, the villagers held fast to their traditions. Until, one winter day, a sly wind blew in from the North…”† From “Chocolat”

I feel something in the air.† A change coming that I am not sure I am ready for.† Some things are supposed to change, others are not.† Or at least not in my world.

Parts of my life do not feel the same any more.† I don’t know if it because I have had the most stressful, heartbreaking, life changing 1Ω year of my life or not.

Maybe I am wrong, maybe it is just a strange ‘dog days of summer’ wind.† Or maybe is is a wonderful, exciting, life changing inagoodway wind.† I just hope I am ready.

Life, My beautiful child, nature, Weather

TGIF…

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Fridays used to be a huge deal for me.

Start of the weekend, school’s out, work is finished.

Now…not so much.† I work from home so I am pretty much available 24/7, Kei is homeschooled, the weekend is just the weekend.

But Friday was beautiful!† It has been so rainy and yucky here.† I am so tired of soggy ground, dashing everywhere with something over our heads, wet everything!

Kei made the most of the day.

First, she planted a garden.† Ok Ok I realized afterwards you can’t plant anything in a container that doesn’t drain!† I am going to fix that.† I am new at this “Country Girl” stuff ok?

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Then she found what we thought was a lizard but on further research decided was a salamander.† Regardless, she loved it.† She kept it about 30 minutes and then started feeling bad and released it.

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Then, she played in the sprinkler. Well she played in 3 sprinklers because she couldn’t make up her mind which one was best!

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Then it was time for a little rest.

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She spent the rest of the day reading and running around.

Then she insisted on making dinner “all by herself”.† She bakes quite often and is very careful but her dinner was going to involve chopping….lots of chopping.† She begged and promised to be careful so I agreed.† She made me sit outside where I was listening for the sound of fingers being cut off but all went well.† It was a delicious dinner and she was so proud of herself!

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We had vegetable stir fry, leftover pasta salad and for desert…Grape and Banana Kabob with whipped cream.

Ahhh…my little chef.

Happy weekend,

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