May 30, 2010

• I keep visiting some of my favourite blogs and am so disappointed when i get there and i’ve already read what they’ve written because it’s the same blog from last week! And then i think to myself, but how often have YOU blogged this last month. Judge not, as they say.

  So, ah, i’m not sure what to write about though since i’m not up to writing about joylessness like i said i was going to do. I’m waiting for the Messenger to come in hard copy so i can re-read my article that they posted in the June issue because i’ve forgotten what i wrote there. (hopefully nothing too controversial ) I do know that i can get the Messenger online, but it takes SO LONG to load up and it seems to always jam our computer. In related (computer) news, we finally got our computer battery today because a friend from the UK brought it with her after MAF in Ashford mailed it to her. And Josh’s new bird book which he is very excited about and declares it’s much better than the other one he has. (what a birding geek ) Today we had a few friends over for pumpkin bread and tea. I’m on a pumpkin kick lately because last week i bought a whole pumpkin, pureed it all and ‘put up’ a whack of pumpkin baby food cubes (which Asher loves) and 6 cups (frozen in Ikea cups, even) of puree to be used at my pumpkin baking/cooking leisure. The pumpkin bread is a hit with me at least. Yum!

  Much of my new found… let’s call it joy… of things domestic has stemmed from my reading of a blog Rhonda recommended to me called thyhandhathprovided. It’s amazing the things that woman does. I’ve copied out several of her recipes and it’s one my goals to actually make them! My other favourite blog at the moment is howaboutorange, which is everything creative i yearn to be.

  Last week Josh had a few days off because he’s been flying a lot of weekends and holidays recently (what a drag! says his family). Friday while Judah was in school all day Josh and Asher and i went down to Ivandry and enjoyed a lunch at the Cookie Shop (the BBQ Club Bagel Sandwich is simply heavenly, not to mention the white chocolate swirl brownie a la mode!!), picked up some bricolage stuff at Mr. Bricolage (new chain for the broken swing, rat poison because a rat strolled by the deck the other day while i was enjoying a cuppa out there, and a french outlet plug to make the new humidifier Josh bought in SA plug into our outlets), and then stopped in the “American” pharmacy for Asher’s 6 month vaccines (dropped ca. 350,000Ar/125$ for the two of them… and then forgot them at the counter after we’d paid and left for the car. oopsies). He’s got a nasty cold now though so we’ll put off the jabs for a few days until he’s over that. Asher is so close to crawling now i’m realizing the new challenges that come with that stage of baby-hood. Alas. So all our books are migrating north, or up, as it were. I lecture Judah on keeping his little toys cleaned up and will begin to remind him of the dangers of leaving stuff he doesnt want touched by anyone in an area where Asher can easily reach. I suppose that soon we’ll start using the bamboo play pen a bit more than we have done up until now to keep him penned up. Today at the Raphia i wisely took along our big picnic blanket for Asher to sit on instead of the smaller baby sized one he uses at church on the floor because as soon as we put him down on the ground at the Raphia he is scooting as quick as his little limbs can get him to the dirt to shovel as much dirt as he can into his mouth. Our luncheons in the garden have become a little less relaxing due to this new phase. alas.
  

  

  Today was also French/Malagasy Mothers’ Day, so i got a rose in church this morning and there were rose petals on the aisles. Happy Second Mothers’ Day!

  We’ve just finished and enjoyed the second season of Chuck. It’s grown on me. Soon we’ll have the first 6 seasons of Corner Gas and you can bet that we’ll force it on all our friends. LOL.

  
  this photo was taken to show what a big boy Asher is getting to be… it’s an unfortunate background for such a photo, we only realized that later. LOL.

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