Wednesday, February 27, 2008

two hours to myself...

You'd think I would have all these wonderful plans for my two free hours a week... where Megan has Silas, the kids are in school and I have forbidden myself from cleaning or running horrible errands...but every week I am stumped. Except for a massage/facial I got for Christmas I usually wander around...not wanting to spend money but always spending money. It turns out two hours outside of the house is too short a time span to see a movie or go for a nature hike so I always end up at a book store. Well, this week I bought a couple of books from the Grove and one of them is "Virgin Earth"...by, you guessed it, Philippa Gregory. Yes, another bodice ripper (term coined by Caroline). Except this one combines all my favorite things...the woods, botany, native american culture and a wee bit of bodice ripping, or in this case, loin cloth lifting. Ha.
Anyway, so far it is very "Last of the Mohicans" except no where near as literary and classic. It 's embarressing what I'll read nowadays...if you can call 4 minutes before unconsciousness really reading at all...
By the way...I want to see "The Other Boleyn Girl" when it comes out...definitely a girls night out kinda movie...Matt hopes!!

Monday, February 25, 2008

personal jinx...

this morning was classic...forgot we had the carseat in the car papa took to work...tried to keep Silas out of the puddles/scum at the foot of the driveway...thank goodness for Lydia picking up the kids ...and for puddle-stomping boots...do they make puddle stomping suits?...and will the personal jinx just go away?!




...and here's bonus footage for all of Emmett's rock n roll fans...

Sunday, February 24, 2008

spiderwick...

Matt watched Silas so I could take Mac, Emmett and Nana to the movies.We finally got to see Spiderwick, a much anticipated movie from a beloved book series. Of course the differences between movie and book are always a bit annoying...but it's also great to hear your kids say they like a book better...
We really liked it...just the idea of all these hidden creatures that we think are simply petals, feathers, blades of grass etc...great! I love that idea.






Actually the haiku for the day was appropriate, written after a walk with Silas...




droplets of water
the clover is wet from rain
bend down, look close, see?!