Feel free to stop now. This is where I start rambling talking to myself.
more details which I may or may not write about in the future: I still teach Play and Learn. Culture Cinderella was awesome and amazing, and I think I'm going to offer it again. Since then I've taught Chemistry, Physics, and Playground Party for the 6-8 year olds at our co-op. We went to the beach every summer, sometimes on a weekly basis. We went hiking with our families each summer. We made maple syrup each spring. We have a cat. Leah stopped dancing and started riding horses. Sarah's still dancing. David tapped for a time. Now he wants to program computers and take drawing lessons. We raised toadpoles. Jesse and the children grew garden, after garden, after garden. (There are a lot of pictures of beach days and vegetables.) We went to Ft. Mackinac and saw one of my grandmothers. Another grandmother died. One of my sisters made her first profession with the Sisters of Mary. Then she got to come home for a week. We took her camping and square dancing. I got back to Falling Water. Jesse caught a bat. David caught a fish. They went to a Pirate's game. We met our Norfolk friends up in Pennsylvania. We spent many an afternoon at the Botanical Gardens, Zoo, and Aquarium. There are new (to us) cabinets in our kitchen. I finished one knitting project - the cutest robot you ever did see. Family came to visit. The rainbow blocks got played with, a lot. We picked pumpkins, went trick-or treating, and played in a few musical salons. Spent Christmas in Pennsylvania with our families. Had our first and only doctor visit for a sick child. Poor Anna! Had our first and only ear infection. Poor Sarah! Another sister got engaged. Then she got married. I was the matron of honor. Sarah was the junior bridesmaid. Leah was a flower girl. Jesse was children juggler extraordinaire. ooo! I knit a doll's hat too! (I think I knit a few other hats for little girls, but they still have unfinished ends.) We almost bought a house. We almost bought another house. We almost bought another house. I wanted to buy another house, but then our future here became less certain. I re-purposed some furniture and re-organized the toy room and library room. One of my brothers got engaged. We found Easter eggs in our yard, and lots of red, ripe strawberries. Jesse took all four children canoeing in the Lafayette River. (It's just at the end of our street.) David made his First Communion. Back to the sister getting married part. I planned a Bridal Shower. (You should read that last one again with great emphasis. I planned a Bridal Shower.) Leah and David now read short chapter books independently, silently, just because they like to. Sarah reads Shakespeare and complains that there are not enough looong books for her to read. Jesse was awarded the Congressional Fellowship. We visited with friends. frequently. I sprained my ankle, but it still hurt six months later, so maybe I did something else to it. We broke the bed. Jesse fixed it. We have a new baby. She's a beautiful, 1931, pear shaped Kanbe. I could, and do, listen to her for hours. Anna started to play her own imaginary, independent games. Now she talks too. We evacuated due to a hurricane and went north to pick apples and make applesauce, only days after the house shook and cracked a bit in an earthquake. The hurricane took down a tree and blew a few window panes out. After almost four months, the windows were finally replaced. The big girls and I went on a dolphin watch tour. I spotted the first ones, with my new glasses. (They look even better on me!) There were calfs!!!! We now have two Girl Scouts in our family. I started teaching Leah's First Communion class. Moe died. Jesse finished off half the attic for a room for David, accessed by a rope. We met our new niece, Nitsah! Jess and I had an over-due, overnight date. (It'd been three long years, baby.) Jesse moved to DC. I drove to Michigan to see my sister, with all our children, after Jesse moved to DC. Melanoma was found in a lymph node of Jesse's 94 year old grandfather. After searching and scanning for cancer elsewhere, finding none, followed by surgery to remove the lymph node, Ray is cancer free and feeling fine. Except he says he has to take more naps now. :) Everyone had birthdays and grew a little, or a lot. *sigh* All this while I led League meetings, took helping calls, taught piano lessons, taught grades K-6 in our home - just not all at the same time, nursed a babe turned toddler turned preschooler, did the cooking and cleaning, or relied on my husband to cook and clean while I took care of the last bits of my PPD only to discover that there is a little (or a lot, depending on the day) SAD there too.
Now if you've made it this far, you can see why the blog posts are only in my head, if they're thought of at all.
And I'm too tired to form coherent sentences. I look forward to writing here again. It was good for me to look back and catch up. Now it's time to look forward.
me, looking forward and back
