Citizen Beta

I can’t think of a better sight than seeing a three year old little girl dancing with abandon to this.  Okay, I was dancing with abandon, too.

Last night L held up her little finger, then her pointer to show me two boo-boos.

“Hey, it looks like I am making the metal sign!”

“Yeah, it does.”

“Not all kids know how to make the metal sign.”

“That’s true.”

“Why not?”

“I guess no one has taught them.”

“I should teach all the kids the metal sign.”

“Yes! Yes you should.”

I have been blogging in my head, if you know what I mean. So much I have wanted to share, about our vacation: about how sometime after midnight, somewhere in Texas the moon finally came up and was the most amazing sliver of orange in a black black sky. I wanted to take a picture but I was driving (about 80 miles per hour on a two lane road) and the camera was next to D who was trying to sleep so he could drive the next leg. I told myself, remember what this looks like, sear it into your memory, no camera needed when you have so many words at your disposal…I don’t think I can do that moon justice with any description but I can still see it when I close my eyes.

Since we have been back A got another tooth and L has met her new preschool teacher. I have hosted my in-laws for dinner and seen my own mother a couple times. I took the girls to a new (used) book store and wrote a review. I ate Japanese food on my wedding anniversary and A ran a very high fever for a couple days. I saw an old friend and met her lovely 2 month old daughter.

The trip was relaxing but coming home always feels like a game of catch-up to me…I don’t want to spend time catching up with blogging.

I have another busy week ahead of me but also plans to sit down and write. I need to write syllabi, a dotmoms post, and work on my big project. I need to write about the books I read on the trip and post that here. Maybe I will even write about that glorious moon.

Maybe not.

I am just back from vacation. I relaxed, drove very far (and back again) and read a bunch of books. I also took a lot of pictures. More on all of it soon.

(can you guess from the pictures where I was?)

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