tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2489600258807328862009-07-14T13:42:23.746-06:00This is where I take Poetic License - often musings on parenthood and radical unschooling, sometimes derailment to ventings or observing simple personal evolution.... Always exploring my Truths...Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06646398396834008698stephanie@ordinarylifemagic.comBlogger669125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248960025880732886.post-33101725087020303102009-07-07T10:51:00.001-06:002009-07-07T10:54:21.643-06:00

the last few days have been of the sighing sort.you know the ones...they're filled with lots of kisses from the babesand you smile so much over their games and conversationyou marvel over the youngest's personality that shows itself so often, now.you look at your beautiful child...and just sigh and sigh.

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swayed by my surroundingsI'm doing my best toliveeatbreatheinspireexudeand Bethe Beauty around me.

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I got this from Sherry.I thought I'd face it head on.I was scared.Trev came tearing through for a pit stop while enjoying a jumping session with Maddie and our neighbor, Blondie."Hey, Bud.... have ten quick questions for you...." (I figured I'd let him off lightly.)After letting him in on what an interview is, and how they're given to famous people, and that no, this doesn't mean that he's famous

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raindrops and puddlesseeing my daughter riding horsey on her daddy's back around the house, hollering "red light... green light!"sodden dandelionsdiscovering my almost forgotten bleeding heartraindrops on clovera blossoming vinerich, wet earthtiny tiny tiny leaves of lichenhearing and seeing my three loves raise a wild ruckus in the backyardlilacs, still.and then even more rainseeing Little Son

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i've been poisoned. I am convinced.seems like stricnine, though i've never officially been poisoned by strychnine - and i am not correcting the spelling because i haven't the energy to look it up.if i twittered, i'd let you know through that, but i do not, so i am here.i'm praying for either immediate death or considering having someone saw (or chop, i care not which) my body off directly under

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how much cleaning can one Mama get done when Daddy has taken the babes to the half-hour-away fancy fishing store?I'm giddy with anticipation.....

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So back to it. :)Here's my problem.... complacency.And I don't mean a "resting" period. And I don't mean a "soaking it all in" period. I mean a "I'm comfortable where I am watching television" period.Not that the tellie is even a problem (read: a stressful worry for Mama) at the moment, as Cartoon Network has been banned again. By Trevelyn, of course. For a couple of more months, until

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.... to yesterday's post.Addendum: I reserve the right to think on all this, and to change my mind at any time. :)

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I believe in Unschooling.I agree with Mr. Einstein's words of "It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty." It's also cause for yet another of the puzzles my life.Like that I believe in not harming any living creature but that I eat meat.And that people who don't follow the rule of using their turn signal

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For the last several months (maybe for even over a year now) I've had this love/hate relationship with the 1911 square feet of space that I call My House. Being its mistress, I mean.We (the children and I, and Eric when he's home with us) spend our days living in this house fully. We eat, we grow, we explode, we explore, we track in and trek through, we meld and melt. We do 92% of our Living

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We received our little township newspaper yesterday and in it is an article on chickens. It seems that Salt Lake City Unincorporated has received requests from folks to be allowed to raise poultry, in the name of Sustainable Living.How cool is that???The county mayor's office replied that they "Support strategies that encourage sustainable living..." and that they've provided propositional

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The big one. The spring-green one.The one that never really got done last year,the one where every surface and sub-surface is cleaned and every item every where is handled, considered, and judged.Just because sometimes I like to make a list.(I always like to, I just don't do it often because I'm not kind to myself or very understanding when/if I don't get it all done in five minutes.)Madd's

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have you started spring cleaning, yet?I'm seriously thinking of beginning the children's bedrooms today....

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The first bit of Must Do garden work has been completed.Today I have a need for opening the doors and windows (even if only halfway, it's mighty windy at the moment) to stir and liven the house with the warm spring wind.Shining, airing, scrubbing and mopping feel like old and welcome friends.On to it, then.

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have I told you of the Great Mystery?There is a spot a few steps outside my back door, near the rose patio, that is The Sweetest Spot In The Land.Whenever I walk past this spot while doing my outside chores, I inevitably stop and backtrack back to it, and stop to stand and breathe that air into every part of me.It's the sweetest of sweet... it's Promises and rebirth and renewal and blossoms and

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My father in law (Bill... I have two) gave me a book for Christmas.It's called The Gardener's Journal - An Old-Fashioned Keepbook.And it is as romantic as the name implies.It's a garden journal with Victorian quotes and pictures.It has pages for Our Garden History, winter, spring, summer and fall notes, and beautifully decorated graphing squares - pages and pages of them.I can't tell you how much

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I found myself worrying what others think of me, today.And then I considered that I am on my path truly and rightly.And I stopped.

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thay, yoga, and me

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i don't have a cell phonei don't text messagei don't have caller idi'm not on myspacei'm not on facebooki don't twitter. except with the birds.don't look for me in any of these venues anytime soon.just so you know.

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Yup.She's in transition.While I intend to post about some of this on OLM (for reasons I'll give there), I have a need for breaking it down a bit more here, first. Processing, don't you know.One thing brought me to (yet another) pause, and now three other related's have finally brought me to a screeching halt.One) Little Son has not liked pretty much anything I've said or done lately. At least

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I've been here deeply for the last two days.Reformatting OLM. Up to -way passed- my eyeballs in pictures of green and sun and warm and color and bright.I can't help but feel that life is so good.

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I keep wondering why everything looks so different on my laptop....And then I remember that I cleaned my screen. :/

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Sometimes I struggle a bit (maybe that means over-think) with the way we've chosen to live and Be. Different from most of society, I mean.There's a subtlety that rests (and stirs) at the heart of it - that if you choose to bring and recognize Magic in your life Every Day -and sometimes every moment- then you have a life full of said Magic, and there's nothing left that's sacred or

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Yesterday I had a really interesting experience.About a week ago, I was reading someone's blogpost for the day, and she had posted pictures of trees and plants and things, and I commented something like "Oh, since seeing this, I have to get outside - to see things, and smell things, and touch things!" I hadn't even realized that I had missed it, even though it probably had only been a few of

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