Ordinary Life

Hemingway's Santiago viewed the sea like a woman. I liked this quote when I read through the book recently and decided to keep it for myself... "But the old man always thought of her (the sea) as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favors, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought." (so it follows that should i do wild or wicked things, it is simply because I cannot help them)

We were spending the day on River Street, walking around a gift shop, when I said "Look Logan", handing her a souvenir thimble, unsure she had ever seen a real one before. I wasn't remembering , but she was... " A KISS!" she exclaimed and then fumed when I laughed at her remark...she doesn't like to be laughed at, even if she's been terribly funny (guess she gets it honest, eh?). We didn't buy the kiss, or the thimble either, but what I found remarkable is that, having never been told anything different, and having never seen one in use, Logan, being told by Peter Pan that a thimble is a kiss believed it to be a kiss. I wonder if I believe in anything like that- with the best intentions, but still in error. Unless of course, you believe a thimble IS a kiss ... or could ever be one. ? * photo courtesy of Kelly Burgess

Remember back when I told you I dreamed about Key West ? Now we are scheduled to go at the end of month - or is it July? Either way, I'll bring you back a marlin.

Took the kids to EdVenture Children's Museum in Columbia on our way home . . . camera battery died early on thanks to certain eager young photographers stealing my camera throughout the previous weekend. In case you may want to go yourself, here's a bit of a sneak peek:

as seen at Wunderfool... (my Marilyn looks sorta . . . masculine)

Over the weekend, spent with family in Greenville , I noticed that, in order for my youngest brother to read my blog, he literally had to squint one eye and put the other on the computer screen... seemed like a change was in order... I've tried to make things a bit easier to read... let me know if it works for you... Oh, and By The Way-- Welcome To Blogger, Ben Ben !

Don't ask me what possessed the child to do it, I've given up trying to understand, resorting instead to take life one mess at a time and let their future therapists sort out the details later. The fact is, for whatever reason, null or void, Chan decided to partake in the spirit of graffiti , leaving giant green "tags" on our newly replaced and not so cheap carpet in the living room, with a permanent marker . . . yep. Chandler is 7 and often claims to be "more like 9"; he's way past the "should know better stage." Chandler has also been having some anger and growing up issues and I'm sure like most things, we'll work through them and all learn heart warming, Brady bunch reminiscent lessons before moving on to the next episode. Until then there is a simpler lesson at the ready and that is "Little Brothers Love To Rat You Out" As I confiscated my camera from Fisher, who was recording Chan's attempts at cleaning the mess up ...

Actual Quote: "LOOK MOMMA! We're JESUS !"

A blog , within a blog , within a blog ... My review for Mr. Wunderfool , as hosted on my(other)blog , now hosted on his(other)blog and furthermore hosted on this(here) blog ...but coming nowhere near THIS blog (for the obvious reasons) BARBARA JEAN's GUEST REVIEW

you know you've been away from home too long when, upon finally returning, you refer to your living room as The Lobby.