Life continues to be rich and full of good energy here in the Miser Family Household.
Where to begin? Well, I know it's been a really long time since we had a picture of our whole family together, and to rectify that lack, here's a picture of us all, supplied by A-child. I think I'm the faint one on the left, a little tilted to one side (more on that, later).
Tuesday night, J-son stayed over, and in the morning he and I went running together and then had an awesome mediation session together. It was good to see him, even if Prewash was a total traitor and followed him around instead of being appropriately subserviently loyal to me. It was also good to run and smell the fresh air and then practice breathing and then eating salad for breakfast. J-son has a lot of good structure when he's at his former foster mom's house, but she's not a healthy-living nut like I am, and surprisingly enough, J-son kinda misses that.
K-daughter has taken on a new job, in addition to her work at the Y; she's working at a nearby new restaurant/bar. The disadvantage is that the job doesn't come with free childcare; but the upside to the job is that the people who hired her (a) think she's wonderful, and (b) actually tell her so, and (c) actually act like it's so, and keep giving her more responsibility and lessons. She sends me texts full of exclamation points: "IM LEARNING HOW TO MAKE COCKTAILS TODAY!!!!! I'm so excited! One step closer!"
My husband continues his eclectic mish-mash of activities: attending synagogue and church, protest activities and chemistry celebrations, bike riding and yoga, and bringing home mounds and mounds of dishes to wash after an ESL end-of-year party. He also [and this is the good energy part] moved the drying rack out of the basement into the garage, where clothes can dry more quickly in the summer heat. If I were to have my way, we'd sell the electric dryer to wandering gypsies and hang-dry our clothes all year long. My husband, however, in his role as Lord of the Laundry, reigns over the dryer. So I have to appreciate the slight increase in use of solar/wind laundry power that comes with the summer.
N-son surprised us by, out-of-the-blue, finding a local baseball league and signing up for it. Way to take initiative, N-son! He told us then that he needed to get a bat and some cleats. When I asked him if he'd rather have me or his dad take him shopping, he chose . . . his dad. Anybody surprised?
I-daughter has been rehearsing in earnest with our local theater company. And I've been hammering away at math, plus the residual parts of my committee work. Both of the theater and the math are great experiences --- taking a lot of energy, but giving us a lot of energy back.
And late in the week we had our annual family Ayo-de-Mayo dinner. (We almost never get around to it on the Cinco-de-, so we just renamed it). Awesome food. Several* of us did large amounts of dancing -- Despacito, Bailando, Que Te Pasa, La Bamba, and Do the Conga.
Somehow, part of the evening turned into a demonstration of yoga-batics, where K-daughter and A-child showed off their stuff. It looked like so much fun!
And that's the news from our family, which continues to be wealthy in our adventures. May you and yours be similarly prosperous.
Where to begin? Well, I know it's been a really long time since we had a picture of our whole family together, and to rectify that lack, here's a picture of us all, supplied by A-child. I think I'm the faint one on the left, a little tilted to one side (more on that, later).
Tuesday night, J-son stayed over, and in the morning he and I went running together and then had an awesome mediation session together. It was good to see him, even if Prewash was a total traitor and followed him around instead of being appropriately subserviently loyal to me. It was also good to run and smell the fresh air and then practice breathing and then eating salad for breakfast. J-son has a lot of good structure when he's at his former foster mom's house, but she's not a healthy-living nut like I am, and surprisingly enough, J-son kinda misses that.
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| Yoga-batics (yoga +acrobatics) |
My husband continues his eclectic mish-mash of activities: attending synagogue and church, protest activities and chemistry celebrations, bike riding and yoga, and bringing home mounds and mounds of dishes to wash after an ESL end-of-year party. He also [and this is the good energy part] moved the drying rack out of the basement into the garage, where clothes can dry more quickly in the summer heat. If I were to have my way, we'd sell the electric dryer to wandering gypsies and hang-dry our clothes all year long. My husband, however, in his role as Lord of the Laundry, reigns over the dryer. So I have to appreciate the slight increase in use of solar/wind laundry power that comes with the summer.
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| I love the fluttery arms! |
I-daughter has been rehearsing in earnest with our local theater company. And I've been hammering away at math, plus the residual parts of my committee work. Both of the theater and the math are great experiences --- taking a lot of energy, but giving us a lot of energy back.
And late in the week we had our annual family Ayo-de-Mayo dinner. (We almost never get around to it on the Cinco-de-, so we just renamed it). Awesome food. Several* of us did large amounts of dancing -- Despacito, Bailando, Que Te Pasa, La Bamba, and Do the Conga.
(Okay, by "several", I mean "A-child and I"
did large amounts of dancing).
Somehow, part of the evening turned into a demonstration of yoga-batics, where K-daughter and A-child showed off their stuff. It looked like so much fun!
And that's the news from our family, which continues to be wealthy in our adventures. May you and yours be similarly prosperous.
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| Here are three of us, tilting to one side. Like A-child's picture of me. |
This all sounds like so much going on and so much fun all rolled up into one. I admire all the energy here :)
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