right now

Right now, football is beaming in through the bunny ears, T finished her Jelly-Tart-Making lesson for BossLady and the tarts are cooling, all three kids are outside playing in the chilly, sunny weather, and I'm re-knitting the purple doll sweater. I'm also enjoying some tea, mostly because I bought a little teapot and I feel a little civilized using it.
Yesterday, we participated in the MatSu Family Fun Run at Colony High School. They had non-competitive races for all ages, including toddlers. All three kids ran and had a great morning. T was in the faster clump of runners in the mile-race, and BL came in around fourth or fifth in the half-mile. She told me later that she'd been running with her buddies for a while, but she wanted to go faster so she left her buddies behind. It was pretty cool watching her run all by herself to the finish line!


I got some pavement footage, not knowing the camera was in movie mode.
K was bummed that he couldn't be there since he had a flight. I just found out today that he'll be gone for most of October... The kids and I said maybe he can dress up on Halloween and scare us via webcam.


Or maybe dressing up is unnecessary.

projects

Everything I do is half-assed.
I even have about half of that body part as most people I've seen (no, I'm not bragging, it's just true, body fat doesn't stick to me).
Clothes, makeup, kid projects, my education, "homeschool" stuff, chores, gardening, filing, car maintenance, EVERYTHING is half-done.

Like this stuff:
T's purple kuspuk
T's purple knit hat
The big San Franciscan dollhouse I picked up off of Craig's for 20 bucks
A purple knit doll sweater (my current project)
Some flannel doll nightgowns
R's blue cable baby blanket (yes, pathetic, he's almost 3)
At-home Montessori activities for R
About 4 or 5 books
A Burgoyne quilt I started in 1996

ecchhh
There's no excuse, either, unless somebody finds the Work Ethic chromosome and I test negative for it.

late summer pictures

mid-August garden rows

the 4 edible radishes

fireweed at Wolverine Lake

rainbow, Pioneer Peak, State Fair

hey, duul, wanna, wide, in mine, ink, ug-bug?

pet a pig

'ig, inky, Mama'

Uncle and Auntie aka "UB, AM"

combo birthday party, September 6th

the daily visitors

company/politics

I love having relatives and friends over! I used to be so horrified at letting anyone into my house, since it was never PERFECT, that I almost never had company. Looking back, though, I think only about 2 of the homes I've been in during my lifetime were PERFECT. Time to lighten up.
If I happen to care about keeping our house magazine-shoot-ready after the kids all move out, I might make an attempt.
Uncle Brian, Auntie Missy and Grandpa Jerry all visited us this weekend, on different days. They got to experience Misterguy in all of his dimple-faced, monkey-monster-adrenaline-nut glory. I love all the conversations, the hugs and the funny stories but most of all I love that the kids got to hang with their dad's side of the family... it gets so lopsided family-wise, and it'll stay like that until we can make a trip south again.
After UB, AM, the girls and I walked a little trail near Lake Lucille and checked out the Iditarod Headquarters, we narrowly escaped being interviewed by some reporters desperate for anyone's opinion on Sarah Palin's VP nomination. Don't get me wrong, reporters are, uh, fun and necessary, I guess, but until the day when I can actually get some makeup on and not blurt out whatever backward, uninformed opinion comes to mind, I'll keep my distance. By the way, I think it's exciting to have our governor given such an opportunity (rockstah!), but I don't vote Republican.
Grandpa Jerry relaxed out here for a while on Monday, then he treated us to dinner in Anchorage. All three made huge birthday contributions, so we thank them for that! There will be two verrrry happy girls here on Saturday.
BossLady started ballet today. She told us afterwards that she wishes she could have ballet class every day. T starts cross-country running tomorrow. She's so very much like her dad! She'll probably even follow in his Republican footsteps. Boss could become a Libertarian one day but I don't know about Monsterboy. There are people in Wasilla who wear t-shirts saying "Our governor is HOT" - he'd probably fall in with that crowd.