Turning the world around from my backyard

Have you heard about gluebooks? If not, do the google. Gluebooks are books that are composed of everyday objects, it's like street art journal style. Pages can be made of anything.

I am really interested in carving out some time each day to do art, and would love to start an online and offline space around which to do it. This time would be later turned into the time where I do artsy mama things in my area. Just, baby step with me. ;)

Drop me a line if you'd like to be in on it. I think it wou… Continue

Sorry to all of my e-friends, the ones I talk to online, but I've been gone. I know this. And I'm sorry for my absence. I really thought things would slow down, but they just aren't. I wake up, I do the normal things, then it's time for lunch, then time to get Fiona from school, then we come home and talk about the day, then Derek comes home we have dinner we watch Dr. Who and we go to bed.

In there I work my business... www.longaberger.com/normadycus. Other than that, it seems like nothing get… Continue

I learned today that a mom in my local social network has cancer.

Cancer?

Yes.

A lump in her throat turned into more.

I am lost in this. I can't imagine how lost she is in the whole situation. Apparently in the past she had cancer in a leg or both... I'm not sure on details.

I know people survive cancer. But I know it's terrifying. And that makes perfect sense to me. We like to think we are our bodies, not somehow separated. Knowing something is in your body making you sick... or worse that… Continue

It's so nice to make new friends and find that they're just enough like you and have sweet kids and everyone mixes well... instead of the typical "the mom's get along but the children don't" or "one husband is weird about something" or just... something.

Not that I have to have carbon copy identical-to-me friends. That's kinda, well, boring. But a couple of good friends that are enough like you that you don't feel you have to police yourself? Awesome.

So today I'm thinking about how much we're… Continue

I've been awake since just before 4 am. It's now nearly 6. I'm waiting for the familiar sounds of my family waking up on this Friday.

What did I do for those two hours?

I watched my husband sleep. If I get out of bed he can feel it somehow and won't be able to sleep. So instead of robbing him of a night he needs (tonight he has to write papers for his graduate degree, so, there won't be much sleeping) I laid there.

I *hate* laying there. All the questions with no answers come to the surface.… Continue