A Mother’s Journal

I know I said that I knew I didn’t fall off the earth, but maybe I did.  Maybe I did fall off the earth.  I’m wondering if maybe I should have stayed gone.  And yet wondering why it took me so long to get back.  Those of you who are so busy you feel like you are meeting yourself coming and going will know what I mean.  The rest of you:  congratulations.

Annie can vouch for me that I’ve been extremely-crazy-busy lately, with barely time to cook.  And the carpenter can vouch for the cooking part.  As you know, Annie sits with me when I type all day, and then when I’m gone, as the carpenter says, “her world turns upsidedown.”  She’s been upsidedown a lot lately.

The school year is approaching and there are things I want done before the school year arrives.  This past week I had a huge personal-household-tax-related-yucky-business-matter to work on.  That’s all I’ll say, but realize that over the past two weeks it has consumed HOURS of my time.  I’ll just be glad when it’s over.  I’ve also gotten a yearly physical (not that anyone needs to know that) and, dare I say it, a colonoscopy.  I joked about sharing the colon pictures on here, but I guess no one would ever come back and I could just shut the blog down completely.  (My children didn’t speak to me for a few hours after I returned home from the appointment with my colonoscopy pictures.) 

Annie, on the other hand, does not care how gross the hepatic flexure looks on paper.  She still loves me.  Thank goodness for that.

I’ve also been busy with bun-buns.  We have eight now that I suppose we’ll have to keep for awhile.  When it was time to sell the last litter to the pet store, someone beat us to it and the pet store had all they could sell and then some.  So here we are.  The phone rang the other day and when I answered my sister jokingly said, “Uh, yes, is this the petting zoo?”

I don’t like for the bunnies to be always in cages, getting little exercise, so I’m creating some places for them to run and enjoy eating violets and clover and laying in the grass.  Coco is first to enjoy one of the timeshares I’ve set up in the yard.  She is totally loving it.  I hope that when the fruit of my loins numbers in the dozens, someone will make a place for me to run and jump, too. 

I accidentally let a rabbit get loose last week and you know where it headed, right?  Yeah, over to Mr. and Mrs. Perfect Vegetable Garden’s house where it plopped down in a flower bed and began voraciously ripping foliage from some things in bloom.  I didn’t see it right away, but my oldest son, who’s tearing apart yet another engine in the yard, came inside and said, “Mom, there’s a huge black bunny in the neighbor’s yard and it doesn’t run off when you walk toward it.  I think it’s one of ours.  Did you let one go?”

Goodness gracious, deja vu, here we go again. By the time I got to the neighbor’s yard, Midnight was carrying out the aforementioned voracious eating spree.  I shook some lamb’s quarters at her and caught her pretty easily.  Thank goodness for little miracles.

On the gardening front, there is only one path down which one can safely walk these days.  I’ve set up buckets of machetes at the entry ways of the other paths, just in case anyone feels inclined to cut their way into the garden to look at creatures with me. 

I don’t know, it just feels like time is going by faster these days.  Or am I losing my mind?

I had to put this picture in (above) because I just love the bright green fern you can see in the background and how it contrasts with the dark spider legs but sort of dances with the bright yellow on the spider’s back.

I’ve also been busy (and delightfully enchanted) with the farmer’s market.  I love the time with my mom.  I also enjoy meeting new people and seeing now-familiar faces.  I have quite an inventory of pins building up and a few dolls to choose from, so I think it’s going well.  The little doll house was a hit with the children and with a few adults as well!  We were asked it if was for sale, but I made it especially for my mom, so maybe I can make one or two more in the future to sell.  We’ll see.  It was so much fun to make, but I realize I’m already at my limit as far as things to do.  At any rate, don’t my mom’s little clothespin dolls look so sweet in their new home? 

Finally (and I’m not sure why this picture is so faded on one end) I’ve slightly rearranged my living room (uh-gain).  I had to.  I found an extremely sturdy, real-wood bookcase at Goodwill.   Upon being put in its new place in my “pink room,” it was immediately filled with books.  I asked my husband, “Can you believe there were this many books floating around the house without a home?”

Without giving it a moment’s thought, he said, “Yeah!”

Hmmmm.  I say one can never have too many books. 

I have to work today, so I better close for now.  I hope that my weeks can begin to slow down a bit now and I can focus on school and getting everything ready for that.

Enjoy this day!