well...everyone is sick (except hazel who almost never gets it when the rest of us do). little jubal woke up this morning with a blob of crust all over his upper lip and a sad and mellow demeanor. though he's cheered up a bit now and is playing at my feet. vesta and rodney are still in bed. i feel a little resentment at being the one who always has to get up and take care of everything when we're ALL sick. even when i had mastitis i still had to do everything. women get a bad rap for "not taking care of themselves" or not "putting themselves first"...maybe those around them deserve some of that credit for not stepping up and taking over some of the duties. i want a neon sign tee shirt that says "I'M SICK, TOO!!!". today i'll be loading up on the vitamin C and making another batch of chicken soup--the last one wasn't big enough!
i've had more opportunities to sew lately. i set up one of the desks in the office as a sewing table--that was one of the barriers before--i had to clean off the kitchen table and set up the machine every time i wanted to sew, now it's just there, so i can easily get ten or fifteen minutes in a few times a day. i googled "how to make baby pants" and got a handy tutorial on making them from old tee shirts and jubal is sporting my favorite pair (made from an old work shirt from zarzycki general contracting)...they take ten or fifteen minutes to make and are totally cute and comfortable. i made myself a pair of loungy/pajama type pants yesterday, as well--they don't have the elastic in the waist yet, but are otherwise done. plus bags from the goodwill pile tee shirts. pretty soon i'll have an actual inventory to move! amazing. also little satchel type bags--just trying to work out the quickest way to make those--i haven't found it yet, but given a few days to practice i'm sure i will. they would make good gift bags for bars of soap--hehe.
well, vesta just woke up and complained that rodney didn't wake her up for school! i guess she's feeling better. i said i'd drive her--i have to go buy a chicken anyways.
i'm tempted to say "i'm too tired" when it comes to list my gratitudes, but that just isn't right, so here goes:
1) the dicksons...a bms family with two daughters in similar age and disposition to ours. hazel spent the night over there last night.
2) the interest and energy for the "homeschool group" we are looking to form while we figure out how to get the school open again.
3) clean sheets. top five best things ever.
4) vesta.
5) big, cozy socks (i steal them from rodney's drawer).
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an excerpt from a work-in-progress
they ate breakfast together: an omlettle he made filled with spinach and cream cheese and tomatoes and a bagel they split with salmon and more of the cream cheese and some capers she went back to the fridge for. they amused themselves discussing what capers are and how they came to be in jars at upscale markets for them to buy and eat on bagels with salmon. he liked to think they came from the sea somehow, and she assured him they were really little berries of some sort of fragrant bush. she fished the capers out of the tall jar as they talked and ate more than usual, something about their brininess described a hunger for her that she didn’t know she had, and then filled it. they drank steaming mugs of rich coffee with cream (and two sugars in his). she loaded the dishwasher and wiped off the counter while he cleaned the coffeegrounds and little spills from the coffee pot. the sun shone cleanly into their white kitchen and onto their bodies as they moved about their tasks and then they kissed one another and left for work, him to an office in town and her upstairs to her office where she worked as a freelance ad designer. it was a perfect morning. it was the perfect morning.
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