05 September, 2005

The Calm morning

This is the calm before another busy week filled with many commitments. I savor quiescence! My fluffy behemoth of an orange tabby lies curled in my lap as I type. His soft purring is a comfort. Hubby returns tonight from a camping trip with his old, best buddies from adulthood. This is a traditional trip they take to go to New Mexico each summer to hunt...well...to pick Hatch Green Chiles, fresh from the harvest and ready for roasting for their families and friends.

This is one of three times per year that the kids and I rent movies and have a weekend movie-festival while he's away. We were able to find some selections at the library, and some we rented. We found all of Season One of the series "24" with Kiefer Southerland, which is about the stressful adventures of a CTU agent. We just started watching "24" this past season, since it wasn't convenient to our schedule before that. We really don't have time for TV, and it stays off almost all the time, now. That is a big accomplishment for me and the kids. Overall, watching the DVD's without commercials was so much more efficient!

This holiday, hurricane relief help is also on our minds, so we are packing up items to donate and looking for places where we can lend helping hands.

Today, I will be picking the last of the pears from our pear tree. With no time to make pear butter this year, as is my usual September activity with my kiddos, I am selling them, to help pay for the rising cost of gasoline.

Tomorrow is American Lit class, so I've got to get the last of the lesson plans and quiz in order before we do anything else today. We also start the rest of our classes in our home school this week. Preparation for my two Spanish classes on Friday has to fit in this week, as well.

At some point in the next three days, my oldest son and I have to get three 8 x 10 photos each printed, matted, and mounted for the Art Gallery that is hosting our Izamal Project photos from the Yucatán. Then there's bookbinding and restoration projects that I'm trying to finish up for two customers in the next two weeks. Gotta run!


Have a good week, all!

Javamom

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