What Georgia does to fruit.

Why?
I don't know.

I ended up eating 3 apples and a pear today.


















Here she caught me, distracted at the computer.
She took about 100 photos at short odd angles before I got the camera back and we went to pick up Lily.

Look Park

for the weekend; more bike races and beautiful days!
Saturday the breezes were warm and sweet and the sun was shining. Ahhhhh.
Above is a photo of Georgia laying on me. She inquired, "Mama why is your nose have spider webs in it?" The sun-the nostril hair-the angle....I reassured her that spiders did not live in my nose.



























Our friend Miranda brought warm morning buns from Bread Euphoria; heavenly.
The girls did cartwheels and somersaults and we pet many dogs.



Oh yeah, and Rob rode his bike!
Sunday our friend Julie and her boys came to cheer Rob on.
Here he is racing away....

Fairy house

Lily and her friend worked on the Fairy house today; getting it ready for winter with cattail fluff galore!

Should be snow proof, too.

Putney run-up

Here's Rob running up the hill at the Putney Vermont cyclocross race on November 1st (Note that yes, Devoted Wife that I am, I had been up all night working after trick or treating, slept for two hours and then drove 45 minutes to watch his race, then went home and fell promptly asleep while the rest of the family stayed at the races.)




Wow, I can't believe that dude can run up that hill with a bike on his shoulder! Go Rob!
Here's what Georgia had to say.
(Still very excited my camera does video but didn't realize I have to be aware of which angle I hold the camera while shooting or it is sideways on the screen. hmmmm I bet there's a way to fix it.)

Where the hell is Matt?

Got this link from Marianne Williamson's Twitter.
(Twitter is growing on me.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Rob and I stood here and watched it just before we tucked the girls into bed, first feeling amused and then suddenly both of us got weepy.
So lovely to see the world goofily dancing with this guy.
Made me want to travel again!

Someday.

Clean room!

This is my girl's room when it is clean.
Ahhhh I feel so much better when they aren't living in a pit.
Now we just have to keep it clean.
(I should have a before photo to help you understand.)
It kills me that we spent our day off together cleaning this room; me bickering and nagging because they were whining and lying on their beds watching me as I put things away.
Arrrgg!

Virgin Mary

I love stained glass.
This window is actually at Mesa Verde a Mexican restaurant in Greenfield.
But I have been thinking about heading into a church to find a shrine to the Virgin Mary after listening to a CD of Marianne Williamson from the library.
http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Bridges-Transformation-Marianne-Williamson/dp/B000ICKVRC
Someone from the audience asked for help dealing with an issue with her son. Marianne replied with these instructions,
"When it comes to mothers and children; there is no higher vibration than the Virgin Mary.
Go to a Catholic or Episcopal church.
Light a candle to Mary and surrender the child
to Mary
to overshadow your motherhood
you need a miracle
surrender to Holy Spirit
and ask for a miracle,
which is a divine intercession from a thought system beyond our own."

I'm uncomfortable with the Christian terminology, Christian churches and the Male god.
But I love the idea of sneaking in a visit to Mary
Who, of course, is the ancient mother goddess from the earlier religions.

Also, since my past life reading revealed a repeated history of monastic life; I have admitted a hidden love of stone churches, stained glass, and statues of Mary....

So, I'm on the lookout for a church with a nice shrine in a quiet corner where I could go light a candle to ask Mary for help in this amazingly wondrous and insanely difficult job of mothering.

I put this Patti Griffin song Mary on a recent mix.
It breaks my heart.
In a good way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0QC4apMCK0&feature=fvsr