Inner Work

So I was catching up on my blog reading and stumbled across this. So, taking the challenge I did a short stint of inner work and answered some of her questions.

Here are the results:

I feel called to be a writer and an awesome, fun, and nurturing mama.

I am passionate about children having respect and more decision-making/creative-thinking opportunities.

Before I had kids, I was passionate about having children and connecting to my husband and writing and inner-work.

Two strengths I have are inner-drive and calmness in crisis (I think.)

I could use those strengths to take risks in my creative life and to slough off the rejections with calmness.

Teaching my family the beauty of homemaking and homesteading and the values I hold dear will increase the chance that they will take these values (some of them anyway) and hold them as their own -- and maybe the world will become a more tolerant place with love and acceptance in the forefront as a result. Also to become stewards of the Mother Earth.

I model to my children: love of reading, ability to take time for them and myself, my own brand of spirituality, that caring for and honoring nature is important to me.

Values that are important to me:

exploration (trying new things)

tolerance/acceptance

frugality

gratitude

honesty

compassion

intuitiveness

non-violence

organization

creativity

Wallowing

I'm having a blah day ... and it's only 10:15 in the morning. Sigh.

I've already re-started a sour load of laundry that I didn't take out of the washer yesterday, closed up the chicken coop that I left open yesterday to air out (oops), fed the chickens/puppy/dog, read a chapter and a half from The Lighting Thief to Robert, cleaned up puppy urine from the carpet, brushed my teeth, cleaned up puppy poo from the carpet, almost cried over the amount of clothes to fold and put away and the status of the kitchen dishes, and talked to Paul about a conversation he had with our 11 year old daughter about viewing some UBER-disturbing images on the internet. Time for parental locks.

I want coffee.

And I want to go back to bed.

But what I will do instead (well, I'll still make coffee) is switch the twice washed laundry, take a shower, have Aubrey do some laundry and shower and find her ballet clothes and shoes, and take her to an audition for the Nutcracker Remixed that her dance school is going to be performing. We will come home and I'll work on the kitchen and decide what to make for the Spiralscouts Circlewide Potluck that's happening tonight at my house.

Paul also wants to watch Coraline with the kids tonight.

Every night is packed with stuff to do this week (and next, too) ... fun stuff that I myself planned and want to do ... but seeing it all laid out on the calendar is daunting.

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow morning. My friend Candace Hunter is coming over to help me work on some writing goals I have and to work out a writing schedule for me. (For regular writing and Nanowrimo writing.) I think it's the only thing getting me through this day, so far.

Just keep writing, just keep writing, just keep writing, just keep writing, just keep writing ...

Nanowrimo 2009

Closer and closer it creeps.

What are you writing about?

Where did my six-pack go?!

Dammit! I'd love to find it again.

Fall at my tiny homestead:

Camera Cord Found!

Hooray! Now I can finally share some things that are going on around here.




Aww. Sleeping dogs are the best dogs. Especially that rascally puppy. He's so much nicer when he sleeps.



This was a fabulous 3d tic tac toe game that Joey designed one day.




This was taken back in June at Aniela's graduation ceremony.



Here's a Banagrams game that Aubrey, Robert and Anna did. Only mythical beasts were allowed on the table.




Aubrey, Robert (Joey), Paul and his mom, Anna all waiting for Aniela's grad ceremony to start.



This is at Aubrey's eleventh birthday party.

No Pictures, No Posting

So, I found and started using my husband's camera because it appears that mine is no longer. :(
But.
I can't find the cord that attaches either the card reader OR the camera.
I'll need a wheelbarrow and shovel to go through my office before I can start downloading pictures and writing entries again.