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follies of the week:                                                     
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-canon customer service
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fodder for the soul:
-rising early
-listening to the traffic and pretending its the wind
-watching the sunset
-laughing with my oldest
-gratitude for the warranty on my big camera

provender for the days ahead:
-an oldest who turns 15
-starting my +365 project tomorrow
-embracing imperfections
-picking up my big camera from canon customer service
(after much needed repairs)

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xoxo

friday | fodder + folly

follies of the week::

-ruminating on things that I can't change
-giving into the desire to crawl back into bed (for all the wrong reasons)
-letting the worries of the night negatively impact my thoughts during the day
-circling around and around and never settling on in
-grasping on too tightly (again)

fodder for the soul::
-writing a bit on something silly (found here)
-receiving a guest post for the school ready series from this lovely lady
(look for it next week! -it is fabulous!!)
-the first of November & semi-fall weather
-working on the oldest's Halloween costume

-a lovely Halloween with my merry men (photos tomorrow)

provender for the days ahead::
-canning
-reading aloud Wildwood to the boys
-reading this just for me
-November Prompt-A-Day with WriteAlm
(won't you join too? photography, journaling, sketching
and/or writing. I think there are treats, not tricks, for participating!)
-organizing crafts for the Holidays that will soon be upon us
-intentional quiet time

This is a friday series called fodder+folly. You are welcome to write along if you want, just leave a comment with your blog address if you decide to write one and I will be sure to come say hello. Would love if you "wrote along!"

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Friday Favorite Day...perhaps a bit late

It is getting on here. Late-ish in the afternoon. March 1st. Sun is slowly trickling its way into the sea. Most of you on the East Coast are already out, or in, for the night. Europe, you should be asleep. Australia, NewZealand friends, I am not sure what time it is there, in relation to here. I am writing, just to write, putting it out to whoever reads it.

I am enjoying a couple of minutes of quiet. G is out and about with friends...the oldest is on a camping trip. B is with his Auntie(my youngest sis) and cousin. I am just enjoying the productivity of an emotional week (middle sister's masectomy & reconstruction), plus a ridiculously draining haircut.  What highlights this week filled with so many things, is the fact I was able to finally assemble the auction item for G's class.

I brought in a variety of leaves and I had the children sketch whichever leaf they wanted to paint. I had the children work in watercolors, showing them a smidgen of how to mix colors and what not. It was wonderful to see the children create and make something they were excited about. There were of course some comparisons, but I kept telling them, "If everyone compared themselves to Michelangelo there would not have been any art made since the Renaissance." They got that.  Each child made at least one (some made several) little leaf portraits that I the combined to make a large collage of sorts. It wasn't all bliss. There was a fair amount of logistics of measuring, cutting & pasting. However, the THRILL and JOY of all the students when they saw their art work all assembled was pure bliss. it truly made my heart sing. I could hear each child, pointing out to their friends, "mine is here, mine is there." They were soooo very excited.

Silly, really, that we have to make art to fund our art programs (and our reading programs) at our school. But I had fun in the making. The children were thrilled! So in the end. What else could you ask for on a Friday afternoon?
I hope whatever you are doing, you are making it lovely. Lovely, for this Friday afternoon....
xxoo

Friday Favorite Day

I walk out my door and the afternoon sun skips across the trees and reflects off the windows across the street. I close the door quickly behind me, finding myself skipping as I pick up the pace to meet you both on this favorite Friday day of the week. The smells are particular and strong, a crushed mix of blossoms from the pear trees and salt air squeezed by dust and pollution.

The sun is bright today, and after weeks of gloomy gray skies and watered down fizzy drinks, I find myself stretching my back a bit to feel the warmth flow in through my skin. I skip, hop, walk a bit faster than usual because I was lost in my at-Home-work and forgot about the time and I know that you two will be there there waiting with your friends, before I get to school.

I like to get there before the bell rings and when you both come spilling out of your classrooms and into my arms, when we move across the yard and start our walk home. I like this favorite day of the week. It is always a signal to me that we finally have a little bit of freedom in our time, where we can capture a bit more of these days that lead up to the rest of your life when you have moved on into that place where you are no longer a child, or someone who will hold their mom's hand in public, or give her dandelions plucked from yards.

And then we walk home, not hand in hand as I wish, but with you both chattering and scampering in and out of yards and over rocks, ready for the weekend, ready for all the many things it holds in its plans for us.

XXOO

what are you up to this weekend?