up, up, & away...

i can hardly contain my excitement! i hope i don't cry at the closing- i'll feel like a real dork if i do! (i love the little anchor in this picture.)

ps... Happy Birthday, Snowy!!!

time to move...

"Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September, assembling on the telephone wires, twittering, making short flights singly and in groups over the open, stubbly fields, returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellow verges of the lanes- the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending, in a mounting excitement, into swarms, and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great, unorganized flock, thick at the center and ragged at the edges, which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves-until that moment when the greater part (but not all) of them know that the time has come: they are off, and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows (among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily, if at all, as individuals) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will: has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea."
~Watership Down, Richard Adams

*this blog has nothing to do with the fact that we have been in the mind to relocate for nearly ten years now and are finally moving (ready or not), nor am i focusing on the many perils that may lie ahead in this new venture; i'm far too excited for that... but, that being said, this may very well be my favorite sentence of all time.

early bird...

Most mornings Daniel is the first one up. As a result, he usually gets his chores done first, so while the girls are eating breakfast & getting ready for the day, Daniel is the only one available. Naturally, he's the one I call on if I need help picking up or getting out all of our school stuff or taking out the trash or the dogs, etc., etc., etc., or all of the above. He usually complains. *smile* This morning he yelled out in frustration, "That saying the early bird gets the worm stinks! The early bird gets the WORK!"

swirling vortex of terror...

My life is spinning out of control. I might like it, if it weren't so dizzying. If you can remain in the controlled center, or be completely out of the way, either way, I think you'll be fine. But, when you're trying to hang on with clinched fists that are being ripped open while the rest of your body is being senselessly flung about, it's not pleasant.

old faithful...

I think I keep this blog going to prove to myself that I can actually stick to something. Don't get me wrong, I love it, but it is seriously important to me that I write something at least once a month for the rest of my life.

just like old friends...

I've been afraid to come here. I thought I let September slip by without a word and I didn't want to know. Thankfully, I was wrong. I still have nothing to say, but I'm here. I'm glad to see you're here too. We should get together more often.

I guess there is one thing:
Today, I took Hannah & Daniel to the dentist. Hannah had a nice little chat with the hygienist. It cracks me up the way my kids love to sit and chat with random grown-up persons. When she was asked to demonstrate how she brushes her teeth, the hygienist noticed she was using her left hand, & said, "Oh, are you left-handed?" And Hannah said, "Yes, but I'm trying to learn to be right-handed." I don't know why I thought that was so cute. It must have been the way she said it. It was like, "Oh, do you smoke?" "Yes, but I'm trying to quit."