Outside my window… sunny and cold. Very both. 

I am hearing… deep sigh of dog crumpling back into a sleepy heap by the couch. He is recovering from the earlier ruckus which ensued after we heard a pack of coyotes venturing rather close in. 

 I am thinking… about transformation – of houses, of people, of little things and big. I am thinking that it is generally messy. 

I am thankful for… a surprise call Friday night beckoning me to the mall where I found a handsome man waiting at a table with two steamy Starbucks cups and an evening all planned out. 

I am wearing…  Nubby, tan, cable knit, hooded sweater, boot cut jeans, brown clogs, silver drop earrings.  It is cold and I would like not to be. 

I am reading… Beyond The Rainbow Bridge  Purchased my own copy finally and finished it in a couple sittings. Devoured it. I loved every word. Nothing terribly new here after 23 yrs of mothering and homeschooling but it has a meditative quality that lends itself to early morning consideration.  A very good way to focus and resolve as the day begins. 

From the learning rooms… notebook pages (will post to the sidebars this week), read alouds, circle time songs. A game of grocery store late last week which has Brendan asking for more.  

I am creating…. space, time, and what may be a whole new future. Still. This one will remain for a time. This weekend I pressed and put out some lovely white lace pillow shams snagged at Rebecca's thrift shop last year.  Fifty cents a piece! 

Pondering these words.. "The growing and developing in the child listens to the growing and developing in the teacher. Therefore, just as much as the teacher works on himself, so much can he work on his pupils. Education and self education are one and the same….I can give to the children to the same degree that I work on myself." – Erich Gabert

which is echoed here. Be what you want them to be.

From the kitchen…  simple food made with little hands. This morning there is hot oatmeal that was soaked before bed last night. Melted brown sugar swimming in whole milk on top. It's the little things. : ) Makes them happy, makes me happy. 

Around the house…  new pipes and new toilet hardware on deck for this week. Not diggin' the remodeling. Can we go back to the pillow shams, please? 

One o
f my favorite things…  Yankee Candle tarts – Vanilla Cupcake and Pineapple Cilantro happening this week. 

From my picture journal…

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