Today the news was too much for me. Too many people hating too deeply. Spreading fear. I can't live in fear. It's not in me. I won't feed them. So, stories.....
Our Sunday night guests brought a bounty of sour cherries, so I
spent a few hours today and last night pitting them and freezing them.
WeeE wants pink cupcakes for her birthday, so I'm planning on making
sour cherry muffins (with perhaps some food coloring to help it along).
The rain still hasn't let up. We've had storms and rain every night, including an epic convergence of clouds last night. Bill and I stood out in the yard and watched the roiling, boiling clouds as they moved together, seemingly coming in from all directions. I wondered briefly if we'd get a tornado, but instead the clouds formed what must have been miles-high column formations, all in a row, a huge moving living cloud architecture. Some folks got some images... but none were able to captured the wind, the pull of the inversion, the inevitable draw to look skyward.
We've pulled out of the summer playschool. I felt conflicted about this because WeeE loves school and I felt I wanted the head-space of a few hours each day. But WeeC still does not subscribe to regular sleep habits and it began to feel like a huge drag to get WeeE to school each day. I wanted flexibility, less structure, fewer obligations. It's sad, but packing lunches, brushing hair, and being on-time are all out of my league right now. So what if it means a few unscheduled days where WeeE spends way too much time watching PBSKids programming. A little boredom is a rite of passage for summers, yes?
On the upside, it means we plan our own fieldtrips.
- We've been to the Silver Spring fountain, where WeeE ran into the water for the first time. Of course, it was an unplanned excursion, so I didn't even have a towel or change. She got to ride home mostly nekid, which is just dandy by this almost-3-yo.
- We spent a day on the Mall, riding the carousel there and visiting the whale at the Natural History Museum.
- We toured the National Museum of Health and Medicine of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (NMHM) - where we saw an exhibit on Macauley's How We Work and some amazing medical exhibits. I'm not sure which was more educational/fascinating - the fetuses in jars or the Civil War medicine exhibit. It is not a museum for the faint of heart.
- And today, we went to Glen Echo for the first time. Magical. We will be back.
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