A Sheepish Return

Well, here I sit waiting for the next big event in our family's life. The arrival of baby two. And I'm thinking that's as good an excuse as any to update this erratic online record of our little lives!

The story these days is all about waiting.  So far, in waiting, I have frozen, pickled, canned, and dried. I have sewed curtains and mended. I have walked, acupunctured, acupressured, homeopathed, stretched, and shimmeyed. I have spent more time on Facebook than I could have imagined possible. But still no baby.  I suspect the midwives are correct when they say I'm probably a 42 week uterous, so really I still have a week before I'm "late", but still...it's getting boring.

I know in a matter of days (maybe hours? she writes hopefully...) I will wish to be back in this calm before the storm, wondering how I could not have enjoyed it more, and so I try to appreciate and savour. But there's something about waiting for a new life, a new family member, a new person in the world that makes it hard to concentrate on vacuuming!

Ah well.  Perhaps I can find something distracting on YouTube...

New Kid In Town

Well, it's official.  I have a new company and a new blog!  Not quite yet a new website, but coming soon...  Check it out at: www.goldenthreadstories.ca

I'll still be writing here, probably with the same irregularity.  But for all things narrative, Golden Thread Story's is the place to be!

See you there...

There is Snow In My View

 

Well, thank you January, for kicking my self-satisfied ass.

The first couple weeks back to work were, in a word, yuck.  Super stressful, demoralizing, frustrating, hearthurting yuck.  It involved a bunch of decision making, some tears and hard words, some fence mending and apologizing, some pride swallowing, some long term thinking, and finally, the postponement of our trip to South Africa.  Because of a university policy I wasn't aware of, I had to choose between the trip as we had planned it and my extremely part-time job.  I chose to stay and am very much hoping that will prove a well-made decision.  And now we are going to South Africa in the winter to plant mango trees (for dad).  Sigh.

Also, I have realized that despite my plan that this would be year about bread and time for me, I have learned, in short order, that it is also going to be a year about difficult working relationships.  My work life is offering me up some significant challenges I haven't encountered before and since I have nothing else to do, I thought maybe I'd take them on.  Or maybe it's because I'm an idiot.  Either way, on we go.

As for the rest of my life, it's just fine.  Jaya continues to be awesome and two, which is hilarious most of the time, and occasionally not;  K- and I continue to work on our stuff which is mostly not hilarious, but occasionally amuses others; the house continues to loom unfinished and wanting; the mice continue to dance across the kitchen floor.  Literally.

But, thankfully, inspiration continues to appear most randomly.  Case in point, with thanks to Sarah: http://summerpierre.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/reflections-on-a-year-of-motherhood/

And that, my friends, is the view from here, and there.

Not enough days on the beach

Coming to the end of the summer as we are, I am only just now realizing that we have spent far too few days at the beach. Today, at least, we were there. And loving it. Happy birthday Cole!

The View From Here

Another new theme. Just a photograph and maybe a word or two about the view from here. Whereever here is today.



And where better to start than on the front porch couch, under the cherry tree, in the sunshine...