as cozy as spring

On the IPod

We're listening to Adele nearly non-stop lately.  Best new music I've heard in a long time.

Just for fun.

Three great parenting moments:

• Playing UNO with my super competitive son and surreptitiously dealing him a hand entirely made up of Wild cards.  Pure joy.
• Watching their faces as they hear 'Bohemian Rhapsody' for the very first time.  Highly recommended.
• Stopping by the Godiva counter 'just to look' and then letting my children choose anything they want.

                    

September

I love Elsa Beskow's books - every last one of them - but Christopher's Harvest Time is probably my least favorite.  It has always struck me as the tale of some weird hallucination Christopher had after ingesting a funny mushroom he found in the woods.  I'm only mentioning it because that has to have occurred to someone else, right?  I know I felt a great sense of joy when Melanie pointed out that it also drove her nuts that the animals in The Going to Bed Book exercised after taking a bath.  Makes no sense!  And all this time, I thought it was just me...

We read it today.  Christopher, that is. The first really cool day of fall, something I've always marked joyfully.

It's 9:00 now and it's been a crazy busy day.  Anderson Cooper awaits me... I almost said 'in the bedroom' because that's where I watch AC360 every night but then I realized that it wouldn't read right.  I'm a little slow about such things, hence the naughty word in my blog url.  Yes, I know it's hiding there.  Enough people have called me, giggling, but what can I do at this point?

OK, probably should call it a night.  I probably shouldn't publish this either but I said I'd post more frequently.  I didn't say it would be good.

Learning

We added Cooking to my daughter's lesson plans this year.  She enjoys cooking.  Almost to where it makes me feel guilty that I don't as much as I used to.  But once one has to clean up after oneself, cooking is less appealing.  She's learned that lesson too so she's decided to start cooking on Sunday, which is her one day off from kitchen duties.  Clever girl.

She searches my coobooks and makes her plans early in the week.  She gives me a list of ingredients on Friday or Saturday.  She's made macaroni and cheese from scratch (except for the pasta itself), enchiladas, and some sausage/pasta recipe from Giada.  Usually these meals are paired with a colorful summer salad.  There are so many skills involved that I take for granted.  Proper and safe cutting techniques, timing, keeping your work space neat... It's been a really great experience for all of us.  

If I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, I have little time to check in here.  But I would like to document a little more of what we are doing, if only for my own records.  We'll see if I can manage that this week!

I definitely want to record that my thermometer is reading 68 degrees right now. Happy Labor Day, friends!