i woke up this morning feeling like today isn't really any day at all, a little groundlessness from the lack of schedule with rodney out of work, i guess...
there's a good feeling in the air, though, of all the projects we can do in the next few weeks. rodney will likely just stay on unemployment (hoping for some side jobs, too) until school starts (unless, of course, he's needed back at work--hopehope), so there'll be another adult here to help out with jubal so the girls and i can take care of a bunch of art projects that need doing...a special soap i want to make that i'd like them to help with, some gocco prints, and a trial run of my homeschool plan (which is to study everything through art. everything!)
we did a gocco print run last week of a design hazel made--a tuxedo angel cat with a little gold halo, and it turned out awesome! vesta did a sketch, too, but we had to order more screens and bulbs (i've been promising them that i'd let them try the gocco, so i used my last child support payment to order the stuff). vesta's is a sketch of a flying fish and she wants to run the print in gold ink--she has quite the eye, it's going to be very nice. we'll likely do that today. we also have this project we got from santa last christmas, enough goodies to make 4 stepping stones, which we haven't done yet, and i'm super looking forward to.
so i'll try to stay positive, especially since rodney is uber-stressed out, and just enjoy the time together and the opportunities it offers us...i imagine once school starts, there will be a reshuffling that might be hard to adjust to, so i want to enjoy some lovey-dovey family time while we can.
i am grateful for:
rabbits, the best pets in the world
rice, which doesn't contain gluten!
my home
my family, especially dad and aunt kim right now, who are being extra-special supportive in this crazy time
energy--the small bits i have and the larger bits those around me have to keep working on keeping the school open
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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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