3 nights with x
w cleared out of here friday afternoon, took the computer with him and went to dog-sit at his mum's, cuz his nemesis, little evil sister, was coming for the weekend.
sue and i picked x up and we went out to eat -- food is still x's foremost desire and thought. afterwards, watched the steve martin remake of the pink panther, x laffed and laffed.
saturday we drove past orangeville through the pretty town of erin -- "that's where i want to live when i grow up," said x -- to the everdale organic farm and environmental learning centre open house
x ignored the human kids' programs -- she played with the goat kids; she cored all the apples and helped with juicing (apple-carrot is her favourite) while sue and i attended a lecture on "the transition to a post- carbon economy: the prospects for alternative renewable energies"; i piggybacked her up the hill twice and we toured their new straw-bale building; we played crazy eight countdown endlessly (well, it had to end, and once again dad was losing when it did).
x and paul watched mr. bean and they laffed and laffed.
this morning, sunday, x did not want to go to church with me. when i returned, x and i walked: walked to tim's walked to mind's alive, walked up the hill to sue's to pick up x's mind's alive gift certificate which she had received as a birthday gift months before and yesterday had forgotten in sue's car, walked back past dq and bat's new home, walked past their current home where we said hello, walked back to mind's alive where -- unbeknownst to me because i was engrossed in reading the fifth mountain -- x spent the majority of her gift certificate on a gift for her teacher.
the walking continued: to x's house and then back to my house to get my bike and we two rode up to the iga to buy cupcake-making supplies to make cupcakes for the school's teddy bear picnic (each cupcake has a gummy bear decoration). we rode over and up to sue's, where x and paul did most of the baking while sue and i chatted on the back porch.
x is in bed now, having fallen asleep listening to more dave and morley stories. * yawnnn*
x is my youngest. she won't be eleven forever; already she's interested in boys. we had a convo today that started like this: "dad, what if there's this boy i like, but i like him more than just a friend, but i only see him nine times a year?" last moments of these lasting moments
sue and i picked x up and we went out to eat -- food is still x's foremost desire and thought. afterwards, watched the steve martin remake of the pink panther, x laffed and laffed.
saturday we drove past orangeville through the pretty town of erin -- "that's where i want to live when i grow up," said x -- to the everdale organic farm and environmental learning centre open house
x ignored the human kids' programs -- she played with the goat kids; she cored all the apples and helped with juicing (apple-carrot is her favourite) while sue and i attended a lecture on "the transition to a post- carbon economy: the prospects for alternative renewable energies"; i piggybacked her up the hill twice and we toured their new straw-bale building; we played crazy eight countdown endlessly (well, it had to end, and once again dad was losing when it did).
x and paul watched mr. bean and they laffed and laffed.
this morning, sunday, x did not want to go to church with me. when i returned, x and i walked: walked to tim's walked to mind's alive, walked up the hill to sue's to pick up x's mind's alive gift certificate which she had received as a birthday gift months before and yesterday had forgotten in sue's car, walked back past dq and bat's new home, walked past their current home where we said hello, walked back to mind's alive where -- unbeknownst to me because i was engrossed in reading the fifth mountain -- x spent the majority of her gift certificate on a gift for her teacher.
the walking continued: to x's house and then back to my house to get my bike and we two rode up to the iga to buy cupcake-making supplies to make cupcakes for the school's teddy bear picnic (each cupcake has a gummy bear decoration). we rode over and up to sue's, where x and paul did most of the baking while sue and i chatted on the back porch.
x is in bed now, having fallen asleep listening to more dave and morley stories. * yawnnn*
x is my youngest. she won't be eleven forever; already she's interested in boys. we had a convo today that started like this: "dad, what if there's this boy i like, but i like him more than just a friend, but i only see him nine times a year?" last moments of these lasting moments