eh. summerness.is.kicking.my.fanny.
all is good, and chaos filled, and curious, and busy....but i cant post, because let me tell you that I HAVE SUMMER BRAIN. holy crap. i cannot barely put one foot in front of the other efficiently at this point. it.is.ridiculous.
*i just spelled foot - fut. seriously. it's a mess.
we have been seriously chaos filled and crazy is coming out of our ears at this point...but i still freaking love summer...and the warm sun touching down on me and my babies....
me and the beans have a new practice of keeping a "goodz" list....and it's that simple....keep the goodz out there in the open, and that way when shit gets nutty....the goodz are right there to snap yah back...
here's some of my goodz....
* we spent a week at the beach with the aunt and her amazing care-taking friends, and i feel like i have gained new extended family. my aunt is battling cancer, and as i mentioned earlier - kicking ass and taking names...and yes, she is insane to let me and this crew chill at the cottage with her through this process, but it.was.amazing. an experience that i feel so incredibly blessed to have been a part of. these women just rocked my world. the house functioned like a well oiled machine...(a slightly noisier one with my crew on board) and we fell right into step...it was a really wonder-filled week....one that made me smile, cry, laugh, and remember that people are ahhmazzing....like REALLY amazing. we cannot wait to go back and do it all over again.
* artichokes. my beans LOVE artichokes. and i must say, that i think that they are one of the most amazing and beautiful things that exist in nature, and not to mention how the layers peel back to the heart which is protected by these prickly leaves....ugh, i know too deep for artichokes...but honest...i am in awe of artichokes...
*halloween recycling...benji is in a phase at this moment if sporting a costume just about everywhere he goes. and i mostly let him, because it's sorta cute, and soon it won't be anymore, and i like how it makes people stop and smile - even if their in a rush around life...however, i had to draw the line during the heat wave last week when he was sporting a giraffe FLEECE costume and it was 101 degrees out, because i was actually concerned that somebody was going to call DCF. but we compromised on a cape and goggles....life is good....someday, decisions will be far more difficult....right now, i dig.
*partying with good peeps. we have been putting in some serious hang time here, and it is good. i am tired, but i feel good, and whole, and happy to have relocated the fun piece again....
*ani difranco...because she's ani. and i heart her and her truths.
*admitting that parenting is HARD. and that there are plenty of moments here that i am not winning any awards...(like the moment yesterday that T wouldn't stop bugging her brothers while i was trying to take a shower - so i finally put her, fully clothed, in the shower with me - because if she couldn't behave, she had to go EVERYWHERE with me - which HORRIFIED her...)but that at the end of the day we all fall asleep with smiles glued to our faces...and heads dancing full of goodz.
*water. my beans are having a crazy love affair with the water, that makes me too stinkin' happy. lake, beach, pool....doesn't matter...they are like fish...and i LOVE that.
*my list is big....so i put that on the goodz list. that there are so so many goodz....so many...
we wanna know whats on your goodz list people...speak up...shout it out...OWN IT!! let's share...leave us a goodz...pretty please....
much love and chaos to you and yours...
xox,
*the beans. and me.
