tea parties, laying around, telling the chickens stories, making meat pies (and singing sweeney todd songs), watching the tree guys take down our trees (pictures of that to follow sometime...), trying to get over the insanity that is daylight savings (still struggling), dancing, rock climbing, trapeezing...
The end of the poopy diaper rein is in sight!
He pooped in the potty for the first time today. With the welcome assistance and distraction of a top grade tool catalog Asa sat on the john and proceeded to open the joyous possibility that i will not wake up to an enormous load in someone else's trousers. The simple elation of this first moment of realization that i will not have to handle massive amounts of noxious dookie every single day of my life is beyond nirvana.
Dear Trapeze,
I think i, like all the other girls and some boys even, am falling in love with you. You are the perfect combination of punishing and rewarding. I spend almost every waking moment thinking about you on some level. For days after an encounter with you my body resounds with all that we did together. I also spend a lot of time on youtube looking for ideas of what we can do on our next date together...
Until next time, my love.
-your addicted, bruised, and tattered lover.
I ditched the kids, hopped in my mother's truck and we drove north. to pittsburgh. Now, while i can't say that Pittsburgh is one of my more favorite places on earth (sorry brother-in-law and all members of White Wives and relatedbands), i can say that i'm slowly becoming more fond of it.
My sister bought a house this year. And has recently acquired a puppy. So, it was time for another trip to the great city of Pitts... also, it was dance weekend.
We left the hollow at 3am. Drove (actually my mom did all of the driving, THANKS MAMA!) 4.5 hours. And arrived at my sister's new house. It's a cute little house in a cute little neighborhood on the south end of pittsburgh in an area called Carrik. Her dog is a cute little dog.
this pic was taken as we left
After meeting the dog, eating breakfast, and meeting Roger's new girl (Hi, Hannah!!) -- whom, i in fact adore! she's fantastic. Very sweet and very pretty and loads of fun -- we (hannah too) went to Casey's place of employment, The Bee Hive where Casey made us tasty treats and we tried her amazing vegan donuts. Then off to The Edgewood Club for the Pittsburgh Fall Dance Weekend. We danced all day. The contra band was fantastic. I was so sore i could hardly walk.Then we went to Hannah's place of employment, Kassab's and bought baba ganoush and hummus which we then ate at Casey's house while she made us delicious soup w/ dumplings. Mom and I left sunday at noon and talked about everything under the sun on the drive home. Perfect girl weekend.
double shot of deliciousness!
It was a fantastic trip, if entirely too short.
I miss my sister. She's so much fun to be around. I dream of the day massive earth quakes move pittsburgh closer to baltimore.
side note:
Monday night, Andy (said brother in-law) and band (aforementioned White Wives) played a show at the Sidebar Tavern in Bmore. I didn't go but sent ben along (since it was his turn to run away). Rumor has it, it was a good show. The band crashed at our place Monday night and i spent most of Tuesday feeding them. I sure do like to feed people -- vegans notwithstanding... *ahem* roger ;)
Veteran's day, as i've just learned is not in fact to honor our faithful community servants, the animal doctors... apparently those are Veterinarians... go figure.
Ben's father left this morning for a three month stint in Vietnam. I believe he's going to make peace with the country (though ben thinks he's going to find his first family). He did two stints there back in is special forces days. And only when he's very drunk and too tired to fend off my unwavering pestering, nagging, coercing, and general cuteness does he say anything about that time in his life. I'd like to say over the internet airwaves, for whatever it's worth, i think Rex is an extremely brave man for facing the past so dead on. I'm so very proud of him.
Not sure if it's the weather, the time of year, the decreased sunlight, being trapped in constant mom-dom, pms, some combo, or maybe I've always been like this but I'm bottoming out... Again. don't be surprised if I don't post much. Sorry.
