Love this! Enjoy.
This is a cat. She came to our porch and cried, and it was very cold, and we let her in.
Faith immediately fell deeply in love with her. Before she was here ten minutes I knew she would be here for the rest of her life. She lets Gloria lug her about and doesn’t flicker a whisker at Bede moaning and running back and forth.
Her name is Mistyfoot.
Also. I love Sean. I went and told him about the new addition, waking him from a sound sleep in the process.
“Sean.”
“mnhf…”
“Sean, there’s a cat in our kitchen.”
“What?”
“There’s a cat. In our kitchen. She’s staying.”
“Oh.” Pause. “Do I need to go to the store for anything?”
What a guy.
We baked chocolate chip cookies today with MY NEW COOKIE SCOOP WOOT and they are fan dan tastic. Gilbert helped me put them on the sheet and in true Little Red Hen fashion everyone helped eat them.
I know I keep promising pictures of mittens. I promise I’ll post some. Soon. In the meantime here is Faith holding Gloria who fell asleep in her lap with bonus Christmas tree.
AWW.
The suit, the orange suit! SAME ONE.
AAAAA THIS REGENERATION IS GOING TO KILL ME DEAD.
(click for embiggened angst and great, really great hair)
Today was too short! I didn’t manage to get many of the things I planned to do, done. I don’t quite know what took the time away. I think it’s the darkness coming so much earlier.
I’m all boiling with thoughts on adolescence and social development. Especially in an online environment. As regular readers of my blog will recall, Faith adores Club Penguin. The tenor and overall culture of the game has been changing in subtle and not-so-subtle ways in the last year, and it is much more schoolyard than before, with all that implies. Faith finds it more and more difficult to simply “play” on Club Penguin due to the polarized and often mildly predatory nature of boy/girl interactions. Tonight I showed her the beauty of the Ignore feature and I hope it helps. Lord knows it has made many message boards and Facebook more tolerable for me.
Trixie is a fairy, Abby is a bad fairy, Faith is a cave girl, and Gilbert is SuperBoy. Gloria and Bede didn’t ToT because Bede didn’t want to and instead they handed out candy with me.
Gloria was awake very late and was chatty due to falling asleep for an hour at 9PM.
I videoed her.
Here you go.
Gloria gives it her all.
Bede threw scores of leaves and called them flying birds.
Gilbert steps up on the logs. Best play structures ever.
Gloria hopes for a pull. She sat there optimistically for a good five minutes…
…and Faith obliged her.
Abby and Faith also looked for a dirt fairy, in the style of Five Children and It.
Trixie was delighted by everything.
Gilbert was too. He saw a rainbow!
Sometimes it’s all so beautiful I have to close my eyes.
I’m Phoebe Gleeson, and this is my perfect life.
Abby’s cover for her book, “5TH SEASON QUEST”
Click to embiggen.
Bede, in Scrat acorn hat and enormous brown trousers, curled up with his remote to the DVD player.
I uploaded some pix from the last few weeks to flickr, including Bede and his Acorn Hat, playing in the backyard, drawing and reading in the dining room and Sean’s recent haircut.
And even a few of me!