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03/27/13

If You Were Our Cat …

This is a bit of a lighthearted post today. I am emotionally tired. I have been processing a lot. My mind is becoming clearer each day, but that comes with a mix of emotions. I felt I needed to get some things out of my head and I decided to write a lighter type of post. I sat down and wrote a list of things that are common questions, phrases, statements around here.

So pretend for a moment that you are Mr. Nathaniel Pawthorne.  

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You are a lovely tuxedo, brilliant kitty, who frequents the halls and rooms of our humble abode. While your padded feet scurry around meowing at all the critters that taunt you through the windows, you may find some amusement in this adult with her three children, as we seem to run similar scripts on a daily basis. I am not sure how the cat is able to sleep in the midst of the entire goings on here, but he does. He gets in the middle of meltdowns and he meows, rubs up against us, head butts, and lies near us when are sad or happy. Notice I did say, near; he is not usually a lap cat. If he decides to partake on a lap-loving adventure it is a rare treat. I do wonder many times what that kitty is thinking. He seems to be a happy fella though no matter what is going on. (He soaked up the sun today and gave me a nice half asleep face for that photo.)

Here are some things  you might hear that popped in my head in a matter of minutes. 

What is that smell?

What sound it is?

What IS that sound?

My panties don’t fit right. (Three to four changes later) Yes, they feel right.

How many times have you changed your clothes today?

What do you mean you don’t like that, you did yesterday?

Stop flipping off the couch.

Stop standing on the back of the couch.

The cat does not like that.

It is time for school.

Yes, you have to write today.

Why do I have to write?

That’s too loud!

Where are my headphones? (Noise reducers)

Why is it so bright?

Mom, mom I’m hungry.

Mom, mom can I eat this?

Mom, mom I have to go potty.

Mom, can I eat this?

Yes.

Mom, can I eat this?

Yes.

MOM! Can I eat this?

Boo, I said yes already.

OK! I did not hear you. (Even though he was looking right at me and I know he heard me. Lol!)

Do you smell that?

What does that mean?

What did he/she say?

Why did they say that?

Stop jumping off the chair.

Don’t answer the door.

What do you want to eat?

Why are you crying?

What is wrong? (Followed by) I don’t know.

Are you mad?

Are you sad?

Are you happy?

I don’t know.

You cannot have all of your toys lying on the living room floor.

Why?

This is too much chaos!

I can’t eat that it sticks to my teeth.

I cannot eat that it is too soft in my mouth.

I cannot eat that it smells funny.

I cannot eat that it takes too long to chew.

I can’t wear that it itches.

Giggles, giggles, giggles

Will you play with me?

I love you.

Can I have hugs?

I don’t want hugs!

No kisses!

Why can’t I stare into a spinning light for hours?

Can I play the iPad?

The car makes me feel sick.

Can we watch Lego Chima?

Singing.

Dancing.

I like you.

This is fun.

Bickering about anything.

No, I do not want to leave the house.

Can I go with you?

Can you read to me?

I want to read.

Bouncing on balls and a lot of laughing.

What is inside of my body?

Why do I have blood?

Why are you getting in there?

Get this off my hands!

I need to wash my hands.

Mom, mom I need to wash my hands.

Mom, mom! The soap thing is on, why is it on!!??

It’s sticky on my face.

Don’t jump on the trampoline like that.

You are breaking the trampoline.

Oh, no! Don’t run down the stairs.

Did you hear me?

Are you talking to me?

Where is my recorder?

Why do I record?

Where is my clock?

Why do we have to sleep?

Why does the day go by so quickly?

I will stop there.

Yes, all of these can be heard on most days in this house. Oh, there are many more I could add, but I left it to the simple questions … I will not include all of the complex questions, observations, interrogations so forth and so that go on around here. :-) I have to go do the dishes so I need to wrap this up. It could be any one of us with many of the things I shared. I confess the boys call their undies “panties.” They are far from panties they are boy undies, but somehow the word panties stuck. I really do not have an issue with it. I think it is quite funny. We are just a happy bunch of sensory overloaded, question asking, singing, and laughing silly willy’s. (Daniel’s word) Nathaniel is often heard purring and he talks all the time, so I am pretty sure he is ok with all of this. :-)

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10/30/12

Almost One Of The Worst Days – Ever!

{I wrote this last night.}

Last night we went to a fall festival type of thing. We made it about an hour. It ended up getting extremely cold and we are NOT used to that. It will take a while to acclimate to this weather – I never will, maybe the kids will. We had as much fun as possible. Daniel ended up shutting down. The noise, smells, crowds of people, lights, wind, etc… was too much. It was too much for all of us, but I managed to stay in “mom mode” until we got home. I had to take some quiet time before I had meltdown or shutdown myself.

I managed to entertain myself in the car in Target’s parking lot.

I was trying to get a picture of the moon and me through the window. I got it, but it does not look much different from the lights in the parking lot. Oh, well it made me laugh really hard, for whatever reason. (Last week I practiced ballet in Target’s parking lot. It is a great parking lot! People most likely think that I am a nutter. I cannot help it I love big, wide open spaces it makes me want to dance.) I then decided to try to get a snapshot of my birthmark because I have talked about it so much. In most of my pictures, I am very good at covering it up. I use my hair, turn to a certain side, or I wear turtlenecks. I decided it was time to share a snippet of it. :-) Sorry, I am babbling.

Let’s just say that last night caused a day full of overloaded kids and mommy in the house.

School went so-so, Daniel is a few lessons behind, but he had such a hard time today that I finally stopped. In five hours, I think we got through two or three lessons. I cannot remember now. I decided that we all should hang out in the living room for a while and try to unwind. However, several confusing moments later, Daniel was upset with the three of us and I could not help him calm down. In the midst of that, someone came to the door. The UPS guy needed my signature. I did not know what it was and I was rather annoyed because I do not usually have to sign for anything. Unless, unless it is an Apple product!!

Woot! The allocated funds for my Mac Mini came in and it was purchased!

The lovely arrived at my door; I opened it up, took pictures, took it out of the box, and hugged it. I then, told it how much I loved it. Only to put it back in the box because I have too much going on to play with my new best friend. I want to give it proper attention you know. ;-) Actually, I fear that I will not be able to pull myself from it. I have so much with Halloween and the twin’s birthday this weekend that I know I will shutdown, focus on my Mac Mini, and forget the rest of the world.

I am being responsible.

I was full of elation, until, until! David went to get the mail and saw bloody paw prints. I looked out the door and there was a trail of bloody little paw prints going back and forth on the tiles in front of the house. I was very distraught. I did not see the little creature and I was worried that it was around somewhere, lying there and suffering. David looked around the house and found nothing. At this point, I realized that I had not seen Nathaniel in a long time. Fear took over. I ran around the house looking for the cat. I went to all of his hiding places. I called his name. He normally comes when I call, or at least meows at me. Nothing!

I started to panic and ran outside.

I started screaming, “Nathaniel!” David was searching all over the yard; I was kicking and moving leaves that had covered the front area of the house. Nothing! I went back inside, the kids were now all upset because they could not find him either. I thought possibly he got out when I opened the door for the UPS guy because it was a bit chaotic during that time. I could not remember seeing anything. I was so scared and worried. I ran back outside looking all around. I went to the street to see if I could see anything. Nothing! Finally, I heard Ariel yelling, “Mom! He’s alive! Nathaniel is alive!”

Joshua found him buried in Ariel’s closet.

I yelled for David and told him that he was ok. All of us stood around Nathaniel, petting him and telling him how happy we were to find him. He yawned, meowed, and then, licked his front paws, leaving us with a rather bored look. I will say, he has not left us since the incident though. We still did not find the poor critter that was hurt. It seems as though it is long gone. I hate the thought of it being out there suffering, but there is nothing I can do. I am so relieved that the cat was all right.

It would have been awful to experience that during Daniel’s death anxiety.

I was surprised at how upset he was. I was not sure why he was crying and behaving the way he was. The reason being that only moments before he was upset at me because I scared him. I came in and told Ariel and Joshua to calm down a little because they were getting loud. Daniel has been extremely sensitive to sound today. Daniel had his back to me when I came in the room, when I spoke I startled him and he got upset. I was unsure if he was crying because he was upset about being startled, or if it was about the cat.

I found out a little bit ago that he thought the cat was hit by a car and was dead.

That was why he was crying. Aaaaa! It did not help that I started to lose it when I could not find the cat. I adore my cat. I ADORE my cat! I would not handle it well at all if I lost him. I will be very honest; I do not even know how to describe what I feel at the thought of losing my cat. I am so thankful that he was found. I decided that the kids and I just needed to sit and watch something and hang out together after the whole ordeal. Mr. Nathaniel joined us. I had recorded “Too Cute: Animal Planet“ the other night for us to watch so I put that on and we all got our happy back on. I tell you what; I am pretty much over all of the “almost” scares going on lately.

So for the ending of this post I will share some pictures with grand happy smiles!

My thoughts and prayers are with all of the East Coasters!!

 

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08/2/12

Nathaniel’s Photo Shoot (Mr. Cat)

I have two posts rolling around in my drafts that I have started. However, I am unable to complete them. They require mental energy that I do not have at the moment. This past week I have become the couch potato when everyone is off to bed. I have enjoyed my solitude very much. Me and the cat chillaxin’ in peace on the sofa, watching whatever flick grabs our attention. Well, my attention, the cat is mostly sleeping, mostly… that is unless I am like a shark slowly crawling on the floor, camera in hand ready to get the best kitty shot!

Yes, if you were to look into my windows you would see me hiding on the floor. 

Stalking my cat with my camera. OH! Lightening just lit up the sky! It was all purple and crashing loudly somewhere – thunder, counting, waiting for the lightening… sorry that was a “squirrel” instance. Indeed, I managed to annoy my favorite feline so much last night that he thumped his tail at me and even grabbed at the camera to take it is away. He scooped it with his paw and then, sniffed it.

It’s my entertainment in the wee hours of the night.

I have not been able to sleep most of this week. I figured I would go ahead and share Nathaniel’s pictures because I think he is such a handsome fellow. I will leave you with the star of the show as we meander into the other room for some movie time. I will be chowing on some oatmeal with strawberries, while Mr. Cat tries to figure out why his water jug is moving before he casually glides across the floor, hops onto the sofa, and licks himself with an attitude. As if I am disturbing him by meowing repeatedly, come on! What cat doesn’t love that? :-) (It’s raining, thundering, and lightening…oh, lights flickering!)

I should take a picture of his perplexity with his water jug thingy. 

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07/26/12

Delirious! Mind Dump Post & Clouds, Of Course!

I would categorize my mood as delirious. However, no one get too concerned, I am only trying to help my brain get organized. Sometimes the best way is to go research the random thoughts that fill my mind. I have been utterly chaotic in my brain. I am disorganized, unable to focus, feeling my emotions fluctuate from one extreme to the next; I have not been able to sleep – as a matter-of-fact I do not want to. It feels like I am being forced by my own body to go get rest and I have so many things that are gyrating around in my neurons that I want to get them settled and organized.

I have been annoying myself with not being able to get on a schedule. 

My consumption of documentaries lately has gotten my brain into a thinking, connecting, wanting to fix everything in the world frenzy. The last few days I have been working on the kids schooling and loving it! I have been in a state of euphoria with learning the virtual system, reading through the curriculum, checking out the resources, learning about the school’s operations in great detail, and it has made me incredibly excited for school.

I cannot wait for it to start. 

I was a bit a put out when I started the orientation not knowing that it was HOURS of video watching and then, short quizzes afterward. Now, I appreciate what they have done. It only helps my confidence in the school, but I was thinking, “Seriously, someone does not know how to use a forum, or how to use email?” and we need a five to eight minute video with visuals and someone talking, as well as a quiz at the end. I quickly reminded myself that not many people adore the computer or internet as much as myself, or their jobs do not require these types of skill. Others may not even have a computer!

People forgive me, I forget sometimes, OK!

I admit I have rather enjoyed watching the videos and taking the quizzes because I am getting them all right. HA! Seriously, the whole operation going on is quite user friendly and very detailed. Yes, yes I am completely sidetracked. It all ties into my delirious state. I realized that I am feeling like this because school has been our life. The past three to four years straight have revolved around me planning school, and working with the kids all day long, all year long with school. I did not have strict regiments, but school was an all day affair. It was my focus and direction for all of these years.

I have felt lost not doing school.

I have felt in limbo for the past few months. I have not done any school with them since we got here because I have been unpacking, getting the house organized, cleaning, helping the children to adjust, dealing with all of our social and emotional meltdowns(shutdowns), I have been too overwhelmed to even think about coming up with school ideas. I have let us all relax and play outside, or stim on whatever we want to. AND it is making me delirious in the context of the word’s several definitions.

What made me think of this morning? 

I had been looking at old pictures of the kids when they were babies, and around two years old. I found lovely pictures of them and of the sky that I obsessed over with the video and digital camera while I was stuck in our three-story apartment by myself for most of the day. (Evenings as well about two nights a week.) The balcony had an amazing view, and the storms that rolled in created some of the most brilliant art pieces I have ever seen. The rainbows would take up the entire landscape and some nights I swear I could reach out and touch the moon.

They were my closest friends – they have been my whole life. 

As I looked through the billion pictures I had captured, my eyes filled with tears of joy and sorrow. So many emotions I cannot describe. The happiness of that time with the babies and nature, and the sadness of isolation and feeling so alone. As I sat there looking at the images all of the memories flooded me, both good and bad. My exhaustion and fears, my jollity that I had captured so many smiles from each of them. The hardwired personalities that I saw then that are now manifesting into word and actions with clarity.

I just got delirious with emotion. 

I have so many thoughts flooding my mind and I have so many posts that I want to write, but I cannot. My mind is chaotic and unable to filter into a clear message. Until I heard, this song  Delirious by Prince (This is the only version I can find.) flood my brain out of nowhere as I sat at my computer only a few moments ago.  Have I written this before? I am having déjà vu – yikes! We know what that means, right? Then, I thought of Eddie Murphy Delirious stand up show and thought, “What was my mom thinking letting me watch that?” Of course, we spent many a Saturday nights watching SNL so I can see where it would not be much of a stretch. I did not understand most of it anyway. I just really liked Steve Martin being King Tut and would do the whole skit for my audience, whether real or make-believe. :-)

Speaking of Steve, here he is with Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka Banjo HDTV The Crow. (Awesome) 

See I keep going off in all sorts of directions. My mind is linking and laughing, crying and hurting, singing and quiet, and trying to gain some sort of balance. Which led me to look up the word delirious, wondering if people or even myself truly understand the definition and comprehend the word’s meaning? Here we go…

de·lir·i·ous  (d-lîr-s) adj.

1. Of, suffering from, or characteristic of delirium.

2. Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; ecstatic: delirious joy; a crowd of delirious baseball fans

 delirious [dɪˈlɪrɪəs] adj

1. (Medicine / Pathology) affected with delirium

2. wildly excited, esp with joy or enthusiasm

Leading me to Delirium:  

Delirium or acute confusional state is a common and severe neuropsychiatric syndrome with core features of acute onset, meaning it has been present from hours to days, but not months or years. Delirium represents an organically caused decline from a previously-attained level of cognitive functioning. Delirium typically appears suddenly with a readily-identifiable time of onset, such as a time space of a few hours, or overnight. It is typified by fluctuating course, attentional deficits and generalized severe disorganization of behavior. It typically involves other cognitive deficits, changes in arousal (hyperactive, hypoactive, or mixed), perceptual deficits, altered sleep-wake cycle, and psychotic features such as hallucinations and delusions. Delirium itself is not a disease, but rather a clinical syndrome (a set of symptoms), which result from an underlying disease or new problem with mentation.

Definition

In common usage, delirium is often used to refer to drowsiness, disorientation, and hallucination. In broader medical terminology, however, a number of other symptoms, including a sudden inability to focus attention, and even (occasionally) sleeplessness and severe agitation and irritability, also define “delirium,” and hallucination, drowsiness, and disorientation are not required.

There are several medical definitions of delirium (including those in the DSM-IV and ICD-10). However, all include some core features.

The core features are:

  • Disturbance of consciousness (that is, reduced clarity of awareness of the environment, with reduced ability to focus, sustain, or shift attention)
  • Change in cognition (e.g., problem-solving impairment or memory impairment) or a perceptual disturbance
  • Onset of hours to days, and tendency to fluctuate.
  • Behaviour may be either overactive or underactive, sleep is often disturbed.
  • Thinking is slow and muddled but the content is often complex. [4]

Common features also tend to include:

Indeed by definition I would assess myself as being in a state of delirium. (without hallucinations and delusions… wait does déjà vu count? ) 

However, I am feeling deliriously free from negative thoughts, and limiting my intake of negativity, which is helping my brain to gain its proper and “normal” state, whatever that is. All I know is that I do not feel so sad, or helpless when in my brain’s proper state. :-)  I think I have gotten enough out to help me get back to a calmer mind. I enjoyed so much looking at my pictures. I am going to share some of them. I am sharing a few of the kids too, I only got up to Joshua being a few months old in my picture rounds – I had to start breakfast. I found a picture of my cat Alexa; she always made her head flat. I do not know why. She was a silly kitty. She looks kind of like a dragon. Click on the pictures to make them larger.

Hope you enjoy these photos! 

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06/11/12

Cat Therapist

So many thoughts too little time! I have no idea what is going to transpire after my brain catches up with itself and processes all of the things I am reading, watching, connecting, feeling, expressing, etc… I will wait it out and go with the flow. I am trying to stop adding senseless pressure and stress upon myself. It is kind of working. While my mind has been venturing off into the realities of each day, and spinning back to my make-believe world I decided I am feeling impetuous!

I have no idea what or where my impetuous self is directing its passions toward. (Entomology for passion.)

I will say that I have been thinking of my cat a lot lately.  If you are new here and have not met my cat, let me introduce you. His name is Mr. Nathaniel Pawthorne. I call him Nathaniel, Mr. Cat, Cat, Hey Cat, Kitty Kitty Meow Meow Cat, DogCat, Hey, and Soft-Paw-Snooty-Tail-Talk-Too-Much-Cat. Ok, that last one I do not say at all. Here is the story of his arrival Mr. Nathaniel Pawthorn. He can be kind of a spaz.

Here are my spazzy detailed observations I have gathered while he has been here.  

He talks a lot. He walks the perimeter of the house meowing when it is bedtime to remind us that indeed it is time to go to bed. If we are past bedtime, he starts “meow howling” at us. (I think he is yelling.) He checks on the kids to make sure they are in bed. He is obsessive about the kids toothbrushes. He has to walk near them and inspect them for some reason. :-/ He meows and howls if the lights are not turned off when the kids are in bed. He meows (howls) if we look at him. He plays hide and seek. He chases his tails. He chases us. He comes into a room from just waking up and falls on his side as if he has been working hard all day long.

He checks on us all the time.

He is an emotional eater. He dips his paw into his water before drinking from his bowl every time. I have caught him drinking from the toilet on several occasions. He doesn’t care for any type of cat treat. The poor fella knows something is going on, but does not know what. I keep trying to explain to him that we are moving, but he seems too interested in staring at the lizards outside acting as if he is going to attack them through the window, but only flits his tail about and says, “Meow, meow, mmmeeeooowww!”

He has OCD cleaning habits if he feels nervous.

The last couple of weeks he has been nervous because I am changing things around and packing things up. He has always walked the perimeter of the house like a watchdog, but now he seems to be doing it more often. He keeps meowing at us too… like he is angry, or asking ”What are you doing?!” I wish I could help him, but he is my therapist so I really need him to step up and take care of my needs.

Oh, I am kidding.

He is quite the therapy cat though and has been. It seems like he was trained to work with autistics - I know he wasn’t. However, I knew that he belonged with us the second I saw him and then, held him. He had been in a foster home with his brothers and several dogs. I am not sure what the foster care person was like, but she seemed to care about him an awful lot and that made me feel good about him being with us.

He has always been a calm cat. 

He has patience that is mindboggling to me. I have never had a cat put up with all that he does. He will lay right in the middle of the living room while the kids are running, being loud, pretending to fly, jumping, flipping, pouncing, spinning, whatever, he just lays there. He has to be involved in everything. He does take his “cat alone time,” but he spends a large portion of his day interacting in his way when we are doing school, playing, or hanging out.

None of my other cats were like this. 

The major thing that I find so interesting about Nathaniel is that since he got here whenever Daniel would have a meltdown the cat would come and get right in the middle of what was going on. It does not matter if Daniel is being aggressive or not the cat comes next to me and starts rubbing himself on Daniel or me. The cat has helped snap Daniel out of some meltdowns because I tell him, “Look the cat is worried about you.” or “Daniel you have to stop you may hurt the cat.” He does not want to hurt the cat. It has been beneficial at times giving Daniel another focus to direct his attentions on.

If I am crying, or Ariel or Joshua have a hard time here comes Nathaniel. 

He does not like it when the kids are arguing and he comes running into the room and starts head butting, rubbing his body on them, and purring. He will come and give kitty kisses, smelling my face or the kids face to make sure we are ok after things happen. Maybe other cats do this, but I have never had one. He does not like to be held, but he loves to have his back and belly scratched. As well as his back-end patted like a baby. Strange cat.

Every morning he lies right outside my bedroom door. 

He is waiting for me to wake up and give him his morning rubdown. Before I do anything else, I have to say, “Hello Cat” while giving a kitty massage. I admit that is therapy for me too. His purring, and soft fur calms me. He is gentle and sweet, but does not smother me. I do not like to be smothered with demanding affection from humans, or animals. We have a healthy boundary of affection toward each other and a mutual balance.

Why am I writing all of this? 

I am worried about my kitty. I am worried that this move is going to affect his personality. I do not think it will, but he is such a sweetheart I do not want him to lose any of that because of fear, or kitty anxiety. I know that I may sound silly to some – it’s just a cat. Yes, I know I have heard that before. My other two cats that I had were affected by my moves so I do have reason to think about these things. I think it will be better if we move into a house straight away and he can adjust. The thoughts still lurk about in my mind.

I worry about the kids, and I worry about the cat. 

I am trying to make it as smooth as possible… I am sure all will be fine. I needed to get this out so I wouldn’t loop about my cat. Ha ha ha I can be a little obsessive about him sometimes. I can also project feelings on him that in reality he is only staring thinking cat thoughts. Whatever those are, still it is fun to project silly thoughts and think my cat is a mastermind in the kitty world creating global schemes to take over the house, or the WORLD!

Right now he is hiding behind a gate thinking that I cannot see him.

I took a picture and his eyes are glowing! Awesome! Ok, I am finished I am going to go talk to my Cat therapist. Yes, I do lie on the couch while he sits and listens. He cannot write, but on many occasions he walks across the iPad, I am fairly certain that he is trying to type. He seems to like to use the keyboard on our other computers as well.

Picture Time!

I am sharing what the kids and have been doing this morning as well. Just because. Wii workouts baby! Hee hee Ariel read an entire Calvin and Hobbes cartoon book yesterday and is reading another one at the moment. She also started drawing “Dark Phoenix.” The boys do not know what to with themselves. Joshua decided to be a worm in a sleeping bag and Daniel created a Lego city.

Exciting stuff people! :-)

Oh! My mom is doing her first “Fantasy” type painting for my sister and I am showing it off. I LOVE the tree and the castle! It is not finished and she will yell at me for showing it. Oopsy! Ok, I am done. I went a little wild on the pictures… Oh, well.

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03/7/12

In All Seriousness — Not!

Wowsers! Today was a good day. We did have several catastrophes dealing with Hex Bug issues and the death of several of them. Daniel had decided that he needed to figure out how they work. He has pulled the legs off of most of them leaving only two legs. One on each side. I mean one Hex Bug has a set of legs in the front, another one has a set in the middle, another one has a set in the back, and one is missing all of its legs. Why you may ask? Daniel said that he wanted to see how each of them would move differently missing their legs at different points of their body. He proceeded to rip the body off of another and then had me tear off the belly so he could see the inner workings of a Hex Bug. Now that they will not go back together and work the way they once did, he is a tad bit upset. Ok, a lot upset at certain moments of the day. :-) Awesomeness and frustration at the same time. (He is happy now.)

It made for an interesting school day.

Ariel and I left this afternoon to have a “girl’s day” out with Grammy. We had fun trying out a tasty new burger joint with all natural fixin’s and such. It was a great atmosphere it took mom and I back to the days when I was a little girl and we would go visit my dad at Wendy’s. He was a manager there and since we would be sparse on the funds sometimes my dad would feed us. (They were divorced by then.) The music in the restaurant today was full of memories. They played Jethro Tull, Steve Miller Band, Animotion. I linked to the songs that played today  one of them being “Abracadabra”. Ariel said she really liked that song because it had: “Like space noises that are in Star Wars, and I like that a lot.” Hee hee

Those are all I can remember at this moment.

We went to a store that is going out of business and checked out the bargains.  They were playing some rockin’ old tunes too that brought back memories and I was dancing all over the place. I can only remember the Stray Cats right now.  Ariel found some sweet black boots and I found some red shoes that I fell in love with. I am not sure what I will wear them with, but they were cheap, red, and go really well with my socks and butterfly pj pants that I am wearing at the moment. Oooo Sexy! Today has been full of fun visuals and numbers. I have seen double numbers all day and that always makes me giggle…well not always sometimes it gets on my nerves if it goes on for days and days at a time! I had emails come in at 8:44am and 12:11pm. Many times when I looked at the clock today it ended with a double digit 10:22, 1:33, and 11:44 were some of them I remember. I laughed and shook it off thinking it was my inner clock again. Then, as we were driving it got so silly I had three license plates in front me at one time. One with 55, one with 77, and another with 99. After that another car popped in front of me with “BB” on its plates and I thought that was funny too.

I think that it is so amusing when things like that happen.

I don’t know if I am just drawn to it more on certain days or what. It makes me smile when I see it so who cares. I am comforted in double digits and double letters maybe my mind is bringing me peace. (2′s of things are fun.) My morning started off with seeing my two sock monkeys sitting together on my desk. I knew Ariel was playing with them last night, but I didn’t pay attention because it was bedtime. She placed the big sock monkey’s arm around the little pirate sock monkey. It started to lean before I could get a picture. It was too cute. How ironic, it seems like when my monkeys are in their proper place everything else seems to fall in to place too. I hear all kinds of happy music, I see numbers all around, AND I find cheap awesome shoes. I am just babbling about nothing in particular. I need to go outside and check out the planets that are glowing at us all. Before I go here are a round of pictures. Some of the kid’s Pokémon inspired drawings, Hex Bug hospital, Joshua’s Lego scene from the The Brick Bible of Moses and the Israelite’s, my awesome shoes, AND Mr. Nathanial Pawthorne because he is the coolest cat ever. :-)

Happy Wednesday that is as wordless as I get!


 

 

 

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05/27/11

Blogging Lite

I don’t feel like writing much today. Well the truth is I have written a lot this week and today, but I need to go over them, you know. :-) I felt like sharing some of what the kids have been up to.

“Photo Friday!”

Joshua’s Lego fixation has seriously turned into an obsession. Unfortunately, I cannot remember all of the names he gave his ships. He has a name and task for each one. He then shares what they are with everyone, even when they are not listening. He doesn’t care, he just keeps going.

It’s pretty funny.

I have some of Ariel’s art work and Daniel’s entertaining toy dumps. He likes to dump toys in his room and then jump on his bed while singing songs. It’s good to hear him singing again, he had stopped for quite some time.  I have about a billion pictures. I put a lot on here because I had such a hard time deciding which ones to put on and which ones not to put on. So here you have some fascinating pictures of a few of our days over here.

Picture time!




 


 

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03/30/11

Nothing Much To Say

I do not have a lot to say but I felt like putting something up so here are some recent photos of random things.

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01/5/10

Mr. Nathaniel Pawthorn

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I have been telling David for some time now that I wanted a cat. I love cats, I am obsessed with cats. I have always loved cats and have managed to have one in my adult life most of the time. My mother dislikes cats very much but she did let me have one as a teenager for a while but that did not turn out very well so we had to get rid of her. My mother was not really an animal person as I was growing up but when my sisters were young and I was out of the house she did get a dog and has had one-off and on for about 17 yrs. (She was only without one for a year.)

I love almost any animal.

I am not the biggest fan of birds but whenever I get around them my heart does melt. I don’t know why but I seem to relate more to animals than people. I find myself mimicking them when I am around them. I start to do their mannerisms and facial expressions. I do it at the zoo, at a pet store,or even when I am at a person’s house who has an animal. At social events I gravitate to kids and animals and seem to keep my distance from the adults. They just make me feel better and I feel like I have more in common them.

I do talk to animals, all the time, well I talk to plants too but that is another post.

Although my mother didn’t care for animals she let me have a few growing up. I had a couple dogs, not at the same time, but that always ended badly. I had two hamsters and I also had a gerbil, which was a BIG deal because my mom cannot stand any kind of rodent looking creature. They all had to stay in my room, hidden from her sight and I had to keep their cages very clean.

So it should be no surprise to me that both Daniel and Ariel are obsessed with our new cat.

However, I do find it strange because now I am observing my own behavior through them and to see it now I understand why others find it so strange. Thank goodness David thinks it is a funny quirk that I have. The kids however, are finding the balance between mirroring an animal and being a human. Ariel stopped talking for half the day when Natey arrived and embodied the cat persona. We had to address that because it is a little annoying trying to figure out what she wants when she is capable of telling us or when we almost fall because she is crawling under our feet. Daniel likes to make the cat run and then he runs just like the cat. He mimics the cats meow and it can be a bit loud.

Joshua talks to the cat.

He has spent all of his time teaching the cat how to play Lego’s and just having full conversations about whatever comes to his mind. He then comes to me and tells me everything he just told the cat. One of the reasons we got Natey was for pet therapy for Daniel, but I need to be a bit honest here, I was needing him. There is something about watching cats that makes me so happy. I love to watch them walk, hearing them talk, I enjoy so much when they bounce and play and we have an amazing little guy who lets us rub his belly and isn’t skittish at all. I had two black cats that I loved dearly and were my companions for over 8 yrs., Felix and Alexa. We had to give them up after the children were born because they just could not adjust to the kids and were getting very aggressive. I am still heartbroken over that situation. I am very happy that we found a kitty that works in our family now.

Nathaniel seems to really love us as much as we love him.

He sits in the midst of Daniel banging, spinning, being loud and obsessing about touching his tail. He doesn’t mind at all that Ariel is following him around every room on all fours and trying to eat her food like him. He seems very content to listen to all that Joshua has to say while throwing his Batman’s all around him yelling “AAAHHH, Batman”. And he has adjusted quite well to David and I picking him up and cuddling him, telling  him that all of those things are ok, “we are here to save you”.

Nathaniel is a sophisticated tuxedo cat who has just made our family very happy.

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