home doings

-planted hibiscus in pots on the front steps. The flowers are big as the kids' faces.
-reading about discipline. St. Augustine, Siddartha Gautama and many other saints had privileged and induldged childhoods and then when confronted with the realities of suffering and injustice were totally flummoxed. I don't want our kids to think that they are the center of the universe. How do I do this??
-Benicio wants his own room so we are separating their belongings as if in a breakup: Manny: You can't take my yarn. Benicio: I will leave you Avatar books if you let me have the yarn.
-packing for our mountain trip next week
-thinking about friends who are due with babies in August, September, and October.
-Manny just came over and said, "The girl on the radio's name is Melissa Blog!"
-The triathlon came and went and this weary mama just could not pull it off. The extent of my athletic trifecta has been the events of being in and out of Shop Rite under 45 minutes, returning laundry to the dressers the same day I wash it, and biking to JOA mart with Clara on my bike.