I am home. The Black Rose Ball in L.A. was fun. Relle's birthday party this evening went well and she & the other kids had fun. She's FIVE now!! And I am tired. I did sleep well last night but I may just head off to bed early anyway, to recharge before I start a new week, which means catching up on all the housecleaning I slacked off on in order to ( Read more... )

Ah, finally some quiet time as the kids are in bed. i'm enjoying the last of our mulled apple cider. We did get the public rooms of the house pretty well cleaned up, at least enough for company to come over. There is still much to be done, but this was a good start, and a massive effort on our part. Now to keep what we've done up to par, and clean ( Read more... )

Today was a good day. A little sleeping in. Lunch with my family at McD's, including Rob who joined us straight from work. He got a few shots of the CSUFresno band who were in front of city hall for the Veterans parade, including one of my eldest son Sean in his band uniform ( Read more... )

( I got a bit wordy... )

Haven't really posted here in awhile. I've spent most weekends away from the home this month, so today I relished just being here, especially being able to sleep... which after a week of the stomach flu I've needed as much rest as I could get. ( Read more... )

Reading a book on medieval painting techniques, "The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting" by Daniel V. Thompson (pg 142) that I bought at GWW. I found my daughter's name is that of a flower found in Provençale France, botanically known as Crozophora tinctoria, but known locally there as maourèla or maurelle. It provides a purple dye that ( Read more... )

I am tired, very tired. I wish my son would hurry up with his shower, so I can take mine and hit the hay ( Read more... )

I am up late tonight, as I had a long nap this afternoon, which is upsetting my normal schedule. But I needed that nap as my tummy again was giving me issues, and I was tired from a day at the water park ( Read more... )

I got Relle's clothing stash put into her room, and moved some of the boxes out to make room for them. Lots more boxes still in there, but there's plenty of room for her clothes. I even purged out her smaller clothes, and put her winter clothes that will fit into a space saver bag (those big ones are really nice for this ( Read more... )

( behind for whatever reasons )