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Feelin' Groovy
Jun. 17th, 2004 11:22 pmLast Friday my friend AB came and picked me and the kids up and took us to the beach, to meet another mommy friend, AT-H there.
We ended up having a wonderful day...saw dolphins, and something that looked like a sea spider, felt tiny fish nibbling at our toes. My son befriended some people fishing (my little fisherman :-) ) and they gave him a couple of crabs, one tiny, perhaps an inch across including the legs, the other small for eating but pretty large by preschooler standards.
The only snag was E looking at the beach as if it were some kind of all-you-can-eat buffet, but we manage to curtail her sand-eating activities. She loved splashing in the water.
All the kids played well together. It was a miraculously golden day.
My son was heartbroken when it came time to throw the crabs back into the ocean, so much so that D and I had a talk and decided on two new additions to our family.
Hermit crabs.
Daniel named them: Pinch (who later decided to live up to his name, but only once, and under duress) and Tough (whose name I keep forgetting).
Hermit crabs take more work than you might think, but they are kind of fun. They keep switching shells in the middle of the night, leaving us guessing who's who. An extra surprise adding to the chaos...well, I'll leave it to you to decide if this is truly a bonus or not. ;-)
This week has been tough, what with taking the bus to preschool part of the time, but also full of pleasant surprises...friends driving the four year old, D adjusting his schedule to help resolve transportation issues, a lawyer friend offering transportation to the courthouse and free legal advice, and just delighting in my kids as much as possible, a couple of evenings (tonight and last Friday) enjoying the company of a good friend (different friends, respectively) laughing and sharing.
I feel blessed.
And the idea of spending an afternoon at the courthouse...well...D is planning to take the kids for the afternoon, so it will just be me and a good book there. For a mom like me, it might as well be Club Med.
I have a character in my head right now, too, and lots of back story there with her. This no doubt contributes to, perhaps is even the cause of, my good mood. Right now I'm not sure what to do though. I don't want to write a novel, I really really don't, but the story seems...well...big.
We'll see how it goes. For now, I'm just filled with anticipation, which is truly a glorious feeling.
A+
We ended up having a wonderful day...saw dolphins, and something that looked like a sea spider, felt tiny fish nibbling at our toes. My son befriended some people fishing (my little fisherman :-) ) and they gave him a couple of crabs, one tiny, perhaps an inch across including the legs, the other small for eating but pretty large by preschooler standards.
The only snag was E looking at the beach as if it were some kind of all-you-can-eat buffet, but we manage to curtail her sand-eating activities. She loved splashing in the water.
All the kids played well together. It was a miraculously golden day.
My son was heartbroken when it came time to throw the crabs back into the ocean, so much so that D and I had a talk and decided on two new additions to our family.
Hermit crabs.
Daniel named them: Pinch (who later decided to live up to his name, but only once, and under duress) and Tough (whose name I keep forgetting).
Hermit crabs take more work than you might think, but they are kind of fun. They keep switching shells in the middle of the night, leaving us guessing who's who. An extra surprise adding to the chaos...well, I'll leave it to you to decide if this is truly a bonus or not. ;-)
This week has been tough, what with taking the bus to preschool part of the time, but also full of pleasant surprises...friends driving the four year old, D adjusting his schedule to help resolve transportation issues, a lawyer friend offering transportation to the courthouse and free legal advice, and just delighting in my kids as much as possible, a couple of evenings (tonight and last Friday) enjoying the company of a good friend (different friends, respectively) laughing and sharing.
I feel blessed.
And the idea of spending an afternoon at the courthouse...well...D is planning to take the kids for the afternoon, so it will just be me and a good book there. For a mom like me, it might as well be Club Med.
I have a character in my head right now, too, and lots of back story there with her. This no doubt contributes to, perhaps is even the cause of, my good mood. Right now I'm not sure what to do though. I don't want to write a novel, I really really don't, but the story seems...well...big.
We'll see how it goes. For now, I'm just filled with anticipation, which is truly a glorious feeling.
A+
