Saturday Snippets - 2 Days & Counting

Oh, pretty blooming weeds.  I've been wanting to get out to this field for a couple weeks, but we are having wierd CA weather.  Not a lot of sunny in Sunny California.  I was hoping for pretty golden sun covered shots of these blooms or sun flare pics by the golden straw looking weeds.  So far hasn't happened.

The kids have been officially out of school for two days.  They haven't actually been doing school work for a couple weeks.  They have been filling their time with award assemblies, field trips, picnics at the park, board games, classroom movies, & other silliness.  In those two days we have had 4 different friends over for playdates (I even got to visit with a couple of the moms for a few minutes- yeah! fun for me).  I made a card comeback in my Rook match with Jake, a new batch of PlayDoh, a fresh batch of cookies, & multiple lego block towers for Jayson to swat down.  One morning I even prepared a tasty German Pancake breakfast.  I pushed Jayson in the stroller while following Jessica on a little bike ride.  The list of things I haven't done is much more lengthy.  Our summer fun is all packed into 8 weeks because the kids return to school on August 10th (used to be end of August).  

Regarding my "Vain New Year Resolution" - currently failing.  My goal was to do my hair and/or make-up more days than not.  I was doing well for a while, but I'm barely getting a shower in this week.  Frump-Mom has taken over.

I'm exhausted.  I stay up way too late to savor the quiet.  Jayson doesn't nap long enough.  He is SOOOOOOOOO busy (understatement of the year).  He weighs over 28 pounds, so keeping him out of trouble is a back-aching experience.

Mac & I are getting along nicely.  I do wish I had the extended keyboard, but the light touch of this one is awesome.  I really notice it when I move back to the other computer.  I need a printer plugged in (no point making all those summer job charts if you can't print them), a firewire so I can transfer my video, AND new Quicken Mac software so I can do everything from my new office.  I can look out over the strawberries in the garden instead of look across to the heap of laundry that needs to be folded in Jayson's room.

Jon is attempting to re-create the garden of Eden on the side of our house.  It has taken dozens of man hours to remove the rocks (aka boulders) from the soil so the little plants can flourish. He has planted tomatoes (early girls & jelly bean), green beans, corn, strawberries, & a couple variety of flowers to pretty up the veggies.  To our nectarine & orange tree he has added two varieties of peach trees (to help pollinate the nectarine), two varieties of apple, and two additional varieties of oranges.  The trees won't bare fruit for a while, but the varieties were specially selected for their fruit baring months.  The hope is to have something fruiting all summer long, not just one huge bumper crop of everything.  I hope the nectarines and peaches do well - they are my favorite. 

I got really, REALLY angry at cancer this week.  We keep trying to walk away from it (aside from the consults with the surgeon and the regular monthly office visits), but it keeps bugging my life.  Amy Wenzel is a beautiful, talented photographer and designer.  I admire her work and subscribe to her blog.  I've never met her, but I was in tears when I read THIS post.  In a nutshell the post says that she cancelled her photography workshop because her husband was just diagnosed with a brain tumor.  I remember in vivid detail how upsetting it is to have your whole wonderful life turned upside down.  So I cried for Amy this week - for the photos she won't have time to take because she will be reading long lists of chemo side effects and waiting and waiting, for the photographers she won't meet at workshops because she'll be sleeping on a hard roll-out bed in her husband's hospital room, and for the plans she can't make and photo sessions she can't schedule because her life just got filled with more uncertainty than any one person can be expected to imagine.

As far as Jacob's surgery to have the port removed, we will likely postpone until after summer.  There was a possibility for July, but I think we'd rather go to the beach.  He has scans again in August, so we'll probably get those results back before we move on the surgery.  I do appreciate the continued inquiries and caring regarding him.