Too good NOT to post:

My Horoscope for 21 Sept:
Leo
By Rick LevineYou may not want to slow down long enough to acknowledge that summer's really over, but you'll feel better about it all once you put your unreachable expectations to rest. It's difficult to combine your role as an independent person with your current need to feel secure, no matter what happens. It will be easier to make your way through the day by admitting your feelings of self-doubt and then moving on.

7/13

So, could these kids be any cuter? My family arranged a pontoon party for my birthday and we spent the day cruising Lake Minnetonka. Good times.

Good Quote:

Marriage is a great ride , til you puke. Alan Harper

Three Weeks Home

High recommendations for a bike trip on the Bodensee--even in the rain. Check out the lighthouse and the statue of the Bavarian lion on the harbor in Lindau. Folding bikes (Brompton and Dahon) are still a novelty in most places, but they travel great on trains in Europe and are a very nice ride.

Check out www.bergstrassebikebooks.com for great books on cycling in europe.

Great Lighting!

This is, I believe, the Big Boy haircut!

Spontaneous, indeed!

Monday, May 25th, 2009 -- There's no need to worry about what you should be doing today, for you are better off now just being spontaneous. Forget about entertaining and forget about calling your friends to go out. For once, just follow the course of least resistance, and let the day take you wherever it does. 

I had a long chat with GG about the upcoming visit to Germany and it was sweet. 

The Wild Thing is changing daily and is beginning to look more and more like his mum. He does have the Vargo smile!

Cinco de Mayo

It's raining in NC

Art Shot

The Czar at Nine Months--And he cruises!

This just turned up...

Most people have inside of them a calling of some kind. When you heed that calling and begin living your life on purpose, pursuing what is most precious to your highest self, I call that ‘not dying with your music still in you.’
WD

Another RGQ (Really Good Quote)

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. Dinah Shore

The Boys are Back in Town

New pictures of the boys, back from their first vacation in South Carolina. They now get to spend their days together with the Czar's Mom--who is also moving the family to their new house. What a woman!

Good to be home...

It was a lovely week in SC with the girls and the babies. Plans were to just hang out, cook and read books, but babies make anything more interesting. Highlights of the trip were watching Ivan experience sand for the first time and just watching Max smile.

March Max

Here is the latest picture of the Wild Thing. He still has blue eyes, but it looks like he may have lost the long, dark hair he had at birth. He is a sweetie.

Hmmmmm...

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
- Robertson Davies

Good Words...

Forgive yourself for your faults and mistakes and move on. Confucious.

8th Grade Words of Wisdom

Overheard not too long after the first section of the TerraNova: "Never put a cactus in your pocket". Can't argue with 8th grade logic...

Tropical Minnesota

Is it the Czar or is it Magnum PI? The kid is finally getting some visible hair!

The Test That Shall Not Be Named

This is it...TerraNova next week. Should be interesting in the JHS.

The Boys March 2009

These boys are just so great!

Rabbit, rabbit!

This is what you say on the first of the month for good luck...

New for the Quote Collection: "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the weasels come." Matt Groening

Facebook pays off!

This afternoon, I had two requests to "Friend" on Facebook in my email, which lead to a couple of hours on the deck creating/editing my 2005 Facebook account, til now mostly unused. It may just be the tool for DoDDS folks to stay in touch. Anyway, nice.

Happy Birthday, Vargo!

Today is Vargo's 62nd birthday, so green font in his honor. I also used a new Google tool, Jing, to capture the Zen thought of the day. Vargo would have delighted in "Jing".

Mission accomplished

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney

There they are; two little guys who are going to change the world. Now, I am off to new adventures to write in postcards for the boys.

Books for the Trip to MN

One of the best things about flying is that I can just read and not have to worry about multi-tasking. In my backpack are: The Reader (because it was nominated), The English Major (heard about it on NPR) and the Loop Group, by Larry McMurtry, one of my favorite authors. I can knit when I get there, in between holding and playing with the boys.

Dr. Who (But which one?)

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
- Doctor Who

Max is here!

My second grandbaby, Max came today, 28 January 2009. Beautiful, perfect and so very much loved by all of us. Welcome to the world, kiddo.

I'm Back...

There are those who scorn the use of quotes, but I find comfort in using the words of others who have already written about the human, shared experience. So, hah! 

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the satisfaction.
Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 07-22-06

Sleep deprivation at 50+ is very different from the working mommy days: Then, I just gave myself a lot of credit for getting through the day. Now, I measure the depth of my craziness and am in despair. No baby to keep me awake at night, but a crazy, 18 year old cat who is mourning the loss of her sister. Rugby (a good old cat) started waking me up every morning, between 2 and 3 AM. Flexible, loving pet owner that I am, I just KNEW that this would pass and the Rug would get over the loss of her sister cat...twas not to be. It went on and on until I realized that I was functioning at 30% sanity and I just couldn't take it anymore. So, just before Christmas, I now have two cats in the yard, but they are buried under the trees... Murphy and Rugby had great lives, especially the the last two years in NC; lots of sunshine on the deck and birds to watch on the creek. RIP Vargo Cats.

Random Quote

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
- Dr. Seuss

25 Years of Mac!

• Mac freaks around the world are celebrating 25 years of the computer that changed life as we know it; Apple IIe to the iPhone, Who knew? I still have vintage Mac swag in nooks and boxes around the house, but some crazies have actual Mac Museums in their basements....hmmmm.
  
• Today is my half birthday!
• Ivan the wonder baby is almost 6 months old!
• Most wonderful and amazing: the new grandbaby will be born by 28 Jan!
• Check out the Czar and I link for cute Ivan pictures.