Ariel has earned husband of the week - not only did he complete our beautiful new bamboo floor throughout our house (see my photo to the right - it does no justice), he brought me dinner at work last night. He hasn't ever done that before, and I have a sneaking suspicion that he was inspired by my friend Rene's radio story. But I appreciated it all the same!
I am working on doing Isaac's first grade curriculum, since he turns six next month. Planning is the best part of homeschooling. It is great to sit down and think about all the wonderful things I want to teach my kids - then the reality of actually having to teach them is something else. Planning is also the best part of
traveling in the same way - everything always works out so perfectly in my head.
Loneliness
Being apart and lonely is like rain.
It climbs toward evening from the ocean plains;
from flat places, rolling and remote, it climbs
to heaven, which is its old abode.
And only when leaving heaven drops upon the city.
It rains down on us in those twittering
hours when the streets turn their faces to the dawn,
and when two bodies who have found nothing,
dissapointed and depressed, roll over;
and when two people who despise eachother
have to sleep together in one bed-
that is when loneliness receives the rivers...
-Rainier Maria Rilke
Today Ariel put our Ikea bookshelves together in our main living area...my poor little books have been stuck in the cold back room for so long...instead of watching the Oscars I just gazed at them all evening. Chester likes them too.
I was supposed to work today, but woke up with an eye infection and had to stay home (don't want to freak out the patients with my eyes swollen shut)...while I was hard at work finishing up a rough draft of my evil community assessment paper, Ariel was finishing this up in our front closet.....the games on the top are an ode to one of my favorite imaginary places ever - I absolutely love the board game closet in The Royal Tennenbaums - and now I have my own.
Ariel unearthed this game from his childhood...the box actually says "See box bottom for description of game".
This is Isaac's first snowboarding attempt. We all tried snowboarding at White Pass last weekend. Due to our respective athletic abilities, Ariel was flying down the mountain after the first half day, while I managed to make it most of the way down the bunny hill by the third. I definitely enjoyed it, although I didn't expect the hardest part of snowboarding would be standing up after you fall down. It is really hard, and I spent a lot of the third day sitting on the hill waiting to get the energy to try and stand up on the board again. Hopefully by my next attempt in a year I will retain some of what I learned, and maybe even gain a bit of upper body strength. 