I am not a good blogger. I am not diligent nor do I have entertaining things to post. Sure we hit a highlight here and there with a weekend on the beach, some apple picking, which I did not manage to blog about and the weekly nature hikes, but there isn’t much beyond. My days consist of dilemmas such as, can I just read my new biography on Zelda Fitzgerald and let the kids paint and draw fall pictures and their dream houses…in trees…with lots of animals…like woodpeckers that live indoors to prevent termites: ” There’s a lot of wood in a tree Mom. And you know how much termites like wood…” Yeah, definitely science in that. And then there was that documentary we watched in the afternoon, “No Impact Man,” during which they had to cover their ears several times due to profanities and crazy talk about things like global warming. ”It’s kind of like santa clause, kids.”
There was a lot of talk about what we need to live and what we could do without. The boys want an indoor worm compost, but Maggie is strongly against. The flies it could produce give her the heeby-jeebies. But she could totally wash our clothes in the bathtub and definitely would like to get a bike taxi to take to the grocery store. Hmmm, why do I not think she would volunteer to pedal…
In other news, Evan celebrated his 7th birthday. He was disappointed that we did not have the usual gathering of family and was quite disconcerted by the re-lighting candles I discovered with some of our birthday decorations.
All and all I think he had a nice time and was delighted by the little gifts his siblings had squirreled away for him. And promising him that we could re-celebrate when Momo and Papa came to visit helped. Ugh, I am so not ready for our family’s season of birthdays…
Sweet little Evan’s face is priceless; love that kid.