Doesn’t it make you feel warm and fuzzy to know you’ve posted something useful? What’s your favorite "Ooh, I helped someone!" moment? From your own blog, or in real life, either one. I bet you have some good stories.
Funny. I can not tell you how many people have come to my site in search of a neo-angle shower rod. I give some very helpful info on those in a few posts so I am sure someone has benefited from my research. I’m glad to help, too.
Funny. I can not tell you how many people have come to my site in search of a neo-angle shower rod. I give some very helpful info on those in a few posts so I am sure someone has benefited from my research. I’m glad to help, too.
I have a question…. do you still have the Honda Odyssey or did you get a large group transporter?
I have 5dc all under the age of ten and we drive a ’99 Ford windstar! Boy-o-boy is it fun when dad joins us in the van- normally only on the drive to church lol!
Right now we are trying to figure out what the “next step up” will be for us. The dreaded Suburban vs Passenger van.
With #5 on the way we have been considering a Suburban- to augment our Sienna minivan (and replace a VERY old Suburu). We decided on a Chevy Trailblazer EXT (extended length). So far we’ve fit the four boys (all in seats) and the cat’s “pet taxi” (which is about the size of an infant car seat). It is a well orchestrated deal to get them all in- we’ve been experimenting with what configuration of kids- usually my 8yr needs to be in charge of buckling the 3 yr old in the “way back”, or he sits back there with the 5 yr old. We just bought this car last week. We’ll be in trouble if the US today reveals twins!
Alison, we are still in the Odyssey. Three boosters and two carseats! (Jane is just about tall enough to ditch the booster, but right now she still finds it more comfortable–w/o it the seatbelt cuts into her neck. I think she’s got about a half inch to grow before she’ll be more comfortable w/o it.)
If we have another baby, we’ll try to move up to one of the new minivans that seat 8. (3 in each back row.) Scott won’t buy an SUV, and I sooo don’t want to drive a big van unless absolutely necessary (like if we had *two* more babies).
“Exploration,” says John Stilgoe, author of Outside Lies Magic, “is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is fun.”
Yes: it is so, so much fun, and that is why I write these posts all chattery with excitement over this or that connection the kids made today. (Or that I made myself!) I know I get carried away, but that’s the point, isn’t it, that way leading on to way has carried me away?
And yet—and yet—I think we are at once ‘carried away’ and made more fully present in the now, more rooted, by these relationships between ideas about things past and future. The joy of connection makes me want to celebrate this moment, this brief encounter with wild-haired child and broad-trunked tree, bus going by, sign on church wall, Scottish warlord creeping over the tower wall and startling the English soldier’s wife who has just put her babe in arms to sleep by crooning that the Black Douglas won’t get him. Child, laughing, shouting “Dinna ye be sae sure aboot that!” across the courtyard outside the library. How can I not celebrate this freedom?
Every day is complicated, messy, and full of friction. And every day has glorious or cozy moments worth celebrating. I seldom bother to chronicle the friction and the mess because writing time is fleeting and precious—and childhood even more so. I’d rather capture the small joys that I might forget—or take for granted—if I don’t take time to set them down in words.
(Excerpt from this post about Real Life, quoted here because I don't want anyone to be under the impression that things are always perfect around here! Heaven knows we are anything but. Perfect, frictionless, orderly? Nope. Happy? Most of the time!)
Be like the bird
Who, pausing in flight
On limb too slight,
Feels it give way beneath her,
Yet sings,
Knowing she has wings.
Funny. I can not tell you how many people have come to my site in search of a neo-angle shower rod. I give some very helpful info on those in a few posts so I am sure someone has benefited from my research. I’m glad to help, too.
Posted on August 24th, 2007 at 6:05 amFunny. I can not tell you how many people have come to my site in search of a neo-angle shower rod. I give some very helpful info on those in a few posts so I am sure someone has benefited from my research. I’m glad to help, too.
Posted on August 24th, 2007 at 6:05 amI don’t want to take up all of your space, so I’ll just remark on what I have used Lilting House and Bonny Glen for in the past two weeks alone.
-waldorf inspired art rec.
-art supplies-which paints/pencils/crayons are worth the extra $$
-latin resources
-blog addresses
-nature sites
and more, I’m sure. That’s all I can think of, but I know there are more.
Thanks!!
Posted on August 24th, 2007 at 9:09 amI have a question…. do you still have the Honda Odyssey or did you get a large group transporter?
I have 5dc all under the age of ten and we drive a ’99 Ford windstar! Boy-o-boy is it fun when dad joins us in the van- normally only on the drive to church lol!
Right now we are trying to figure out what the “next step up” will be for us. The dreaded Suburban vs Passenger van.
What did you or didn’t you do?
Posted on August 24th, 2007 at 11:22 amHi Melissa! I love your blog!
I was wondering how you can tell how people end up at your blog? I haven’t learned that one yet! Thanks!
Posted on August 24th, 2007 at 3:59 pmWith #5 on the way we have been considering a Suburban- to augment our Sienna minivan (and replace a VERY old Suburu). We decided on a Chevy Trailblazer EXT (extended length). So far we’ve fit the four boys (all in seats) and the cat’s “pet taxi” (which is about the size of an infant car seat). It is a well orchestrated deal to get them all in- we’ve been experimenting with what configuration of kids- usually my 8yr needs to be in charge of buckling the 3 yr old in the “way back”, or he sits back there with the 5 yr old. We just bought this car last week. We’ll be in trouble if the US today reveals twins!
Posted on August 27th, 2007 at 4:41 amAlison, we are still in the Odyssey. Three boosters and two carseats! (Jane is just about tall enough to ditch the booster, but right now she still finds it more comfortable–w/o it the seatbelt cuts into her neck. I think she’s got about a half inch to grow before she’ll be more comfortable w/o it.)
If we have another baby, we’ll try to move up to one of the new minivans that seat 8. (3 in each back row.) Scott won’t buy an SUV, and I sooo don’t want to drive a big van unless absolutely necessary (like if we had *two* more babies).
Posted on August 28th, 2007 at 8:53 am