Life On The Planet

Thanksgiving

Having enjoyed way too much food at Aussie Kim's house, I am feeling particularly grateful.

Hope you are warm and dry.

Hope your stomach is as full as mine.

Holiday Joy Via the Camera Phone Archives

Clearing out my cell phone disc, and wishing you a Merry Month of May!!!

Tiger Today

Tiger has three, count 'em THREE performances in Mulan, Jr. today.

As if that isn't enough, he is turning ELEVEN! What a very special day it is!

Love you bunches, Tiger.

Make a wish, and break a leg!

A Good Fellow

The CFO posted this on the fridge:

 

EXITCARE® PATIENT INFORMATION

Patient Name: The Activities Coordinator

Emergency Physician: XXXXXXXXXX

Excuse from Work or School

The Activities Coordinator needs to be excused from

CLJ Work

D School

I—I Physical activity

Beginning now and through the following date: 5/9/2009

______________________________________________________________

I got it from the E.R., where I ended up after a failed attempt to self-medicate/ignore the excruciating pain in my right ear. Not one of my brighter moments.

The CFO posted my excuse for all planetary children to see. He then proceeded to take over the running of the house and the teaching of the children. I slept all day.

He's such a good fellow.

And today is his birthday!

Happy birthday, good fellow!!!! You're one of a kind!

Pied Piper & Weekend Rehash

After seven weeks of hard work, Butterfly's play is over. Pied Piper, The Musical was a success. Naturally, Butterfly did a fine job (no bias here). In fact, the entire cast was wonderful.

Their shining moment came in the middle of disaster. The fountain in the middle of the set overflowed during the Friday night show. Several boys in the cast took wooden prop buckets, brooms and mops and, never breaking character, cleaned the entire thing up during a song and dance number. NO ONE NOTICED! Not even the director! Dances choreographed to include dancing around the fountain were re-choreographed on the fly by the cast. Not shabby for an all child cast!

It was an exhausting weekend for Butterfly; she nearly fell asleep in church Sunday. However, it was a fun weekend, so in the end it was worth all of the effort.

I woke up yesterday morning with the realization that I had nothing ready for Easter. We spent the day shopping and getting hair cuts. I would like to say that shopping with three children is a pleasant experience, but I don't like to lie.

Today it's back to the grindstone. School work and house cleaning are the only things on the agenda. How delightfully dull that sounds!

A Conundrum

Black cat wearing Shamrocks...

Lucky or Unlucky?

Dear God,

Thank You for a lovely Mardi Gras.

There are NO PARADES here with people throwing things to us. However, we especially appreciate NOT having a TORNADO this year.

Hunkering down in the Nave with the youth group last year, while the sirens screamed and the wind roared, was not fun. (Just in case I forgot to tell you before.)

Tomorrow we fast. Tonight we FEAST!

Amen.

P.S.

We wish we were in Louisiana!

Maybe next year?

Amen (again)

What He Said.

"The function of education is to teach one to think
intensively and to think critically...
Intelligence plus character - that is
the goal of true education."

                                   Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I happen to agree, and that, my little darlings, is why school is in session at our house today.

Hog Wild at Wal-Mart

What the kids plan to buy with the Wal-Mart gift cards sent from Aunt the Major for Christmas: Wii games, digital cameras, camping gear,...

What I bought with my gift card: Ricola, Benadryl, a shower curtain (navy blue - very nice!), half-priced Christmas cards, dog food, the Twilight soundtrack (which was shortly thereafter confiscated by Butterfly) and 24 ROLLS OF TOILET PAPER. Woo-Hoo.

For an entire week I don't have to hear the following phrases:

"The dog wants food."
"I need a cough drop."
and (my personal favorite)
"WE'RE OUT OF TOILET PAPER!"

And if they decide to yell about something else, I'm cranking the music up.
A week of bliss...it's the ultimate Christmas gift.

Thanks, Aunt the Major. You rock!

Deep Peace

"Deep peace of the running wave to you.                                                                                             

Deep peace of the flowing air to you.

Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.

Deep peace of the shining star to you.

Deep peace of the Son of Peace to you.

Amen. Amen. Amen."

(Adapted from The Dominion of Dreams:Under the Dark Star, Fiona Macleod, 1895)