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• woke up today at 7:16 to the sounds of Wheaton playing a growly game of peek-a-boo with Rowan
• oatmeal with applesauce for breakfast; hot coffee for me, and a fairly hectic pace getting everyone up and out for co-op. It was rainy this morning; we took rain coats. Rain coats and boots really get used here! What fun! I can’t wait to get them all yellow coats and red boots!
• Andrew continues on his Gary Paulsen marathon in the car. Now he’s listening to The Island. What a great author; we love every title we’ve heard, starting with The Hatchet, then Tracker, The Rifle, A Soldier’s Heart, Tucket’s Gold….they’re all great. And books on tape are the secret to getting kids to quit fighting in the car!
• Met a new friend in the nursery today and ended up talking with her through the second hour too. She’s a nurse and lactation consultant and very experienced with the birth scene here. Loads of fun to talk with! And she let me know of a good place to get great bread, with freshly ground wheat for those of us who believe in eating that way without the space in our lives to actually grind and bake ourselves. She had lots of encouraging things to say about my nursing Rowan into his second year. So good to hear.
• Drove through the rain, listening to the sound of tires on wet pavement, and seeing wet leaves everywhere, to Chick-Fil-A for hot chicken and fries, cold lemondade, and fun with the kids. I did the unusual and skipped the drive thru. We ate inside and relaxed and laughed together.
• The library today was *heavenly*. Absolutely silent in the children’s section; we had it to ourselves for over an hour. I had a hot latte, read a great article about Green Day in Rolling Stone magazine, picked out some terrific titles for school…plays and fairy tales, mapping, skilled listening to music, the seasons, animal tracking….the kids played on the computer, worked a puzzle, and sat cuddled up in the window seat while it rained grey rain outside. Somehow grey days with vibrant red and yellow trees everywhere can’t be gloomy.
• We had a cub scout field trip to the TN Division of Drugs and Alchohol. Andrew was especially talkative; everyone seemed to think he was great and very, um, “interactive”….but I was on a nervous string knowing how fast he can go from that to down right obnoxious. But even I laughed out loud when the doctor asked him how a forest fire started. He was of course expecting a short answer like, “someone threw down thier cigarette”. Instead he got a very lengthy description of, “well some idiot got careless and there down thier cigarette butt and it fell on some old and dry pine needles on the forest floor and they smoldered and spread to the nearby trees where they caught on fire like a chain and the whole forest burned down and the animals got hurt and……” all the while waving his hands.
• we came home and snuggled on the couch to read library books on music history, listening and sound distiction, and math riddles. They worked cuisinairre rods while listening to a guitar CD and Andrew practiced his violin. I caught up with my friend Marlene while I made a new cookie of my own creation, “Apple Snickerdoodles” for tonight’s award ceremony, made a big pot of baked potato soup, and got uniforms ready. It was still raining but a fog was rolling in; it’s beauty made me speechless! I couldn’t see the distant mountains but the hills looked like a layer cake…fog, trees, fog, trees, and so on. Grey and brown, and purple and yellow street lights here and there. Beautiful.
• David made it home in time for soup; didn’t sell much today. Everyone wanted to be home in bed or somewhere other than work and no one wanted to think about what they needed for the coming month!
• Off to the American Heritage Girls Fall Awards Ceremony. The fog was so thick that standing by my door, I couldn’t see the van where we park. There was better visibility at the bottom of the ridge.
• Celia won her joining award and her fitness badge. The cub scout brothers all formed a “line of honor” for the girls to walk through to get thier packets. Made this momma proud and weepy. Rowan sat on my lap either pulling my hair, his hair, or our little friend Evelyn Richardon’s.
• lines full of gooey brownies, desecrated bags of chips, and red punch are becoming a staple in our weeks. We never would have thunk….
• home in the rain and fog. More purple and grey haze and wet tires on pavement. Tired and hyper kids who talked the whole way home about the pros and cons of a christmas tree. The UT cows in the field were trying to huddle thier entire selves under one tree. David has a head cold, so Rhus Tox remedy and hot tea for him, pj’s and bed for the kids, and some computer r & r for this tired girl. It was a full moon tonight, barely visible through the clouds all around us.

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