I took the girl to school this morning. The horrid, public high school. Making the best of it, but wishing she were my little unschool girl. Sigh. Her choice. I listened to MLK on the way home and cried for all of humanity. What a beautiful soul. I have two MLK books to read with the boys today. We will probably Google videos as well. I love this:  

"This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Dangerous passions of pride, hatred and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; truth lies prostrate on the rugged hills of nameless Calvaries. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority." ~MLK, 1963

So true..... for more than just issues of racism.

As ugly as this is, I have to express this. I have been in the presence of people in my life who have referred to MLK Day as "Nigger Day." It brings tears of happiness to my eyes that I removed myself from these people. 


Husband is home sick today. He tossed and turned and talked in his sleep all night. It was actually kind of scary. He probably picked up something from the germ-infested airplane. Plus, he smokes, so he taxes his detox system. Boys and I will have to fight hard today with Vitamin C, Probiotics, Green Smoothie, Magnesium, ACV, water, etc. That's what we do, and we usually win.  We don't rush to the doctor and give him $20 so that he will prescribe us immune suppressing antibiotics... and usually send us home with something we don't have already as well. Husband will be treated with Master Tonic. There is a place for conventional medicine, however, there is a time to stop being lazy and helpless and dependent upon it. Stop abusing conventional medicine and take care of yourselves, people.

I will step down from my soapbox now.

Yesterday I went out into the world alone. I really hate stores. I was thinking, "I don't really like people much at all." But that's not true, I love a lot of people. Just in different settings. I think that maybe the whole consumer setting may be what I actually detest. I also can't stand  loading and unloading. Load items into the cart. Unload items onto the conveyor.  Load bagged items back into cart. Unload bagged items from cart, load into car. Unload items from car, load items into home and organize. Jesus God. Insanity. I love the UPS man. I did, however, get two very inexpensive bird feeders that I am excited about. AND a HUGE-ASS commercial grade mixing bowl. Holla.
I know I can't completely avoid going out into stores, so for future reference, can anyone tell me how to say, "Move the fuck out of my way, please", in Spanish? Thanks.

Yesterday was a Chocolate Day. I made gluten-free brownies with brunchfast, except I added extra, extra chocolate chips. Sam & Josiah licked the hand mixer attachments, the big spoon, and the big mixing bowl clean for me. I am very near to menstruation. Irritable. Fatigued. Craving chocolate like a mad woman. 
I love to tilt my head back and pour chocolate syrup into my mouth straight from the bottle!

The boys made a "Museum" upstairs yesterday, and took Mike and I on a tour of it. It is so interesting seeing how they see a museum. Very cute, very creative play. They also played with their electrical boards ALL DAY yesterday, and are playing with them now today. Those things are really cool. Nana got Sam one for his 9th birthday, and I already had one here that I got at a consignment shop, so both boys have one of their own. Thanks Nana!

I have to say I wasn't so sure about the tee pee. It just didn't look right. Mike "rigged" it and made it work though, so we will keep it. He knew he would have to try his best after I sent him this text Saturday while he was at band practice, "You need to get home and figure out what we did wrong with this effing tee pee before I hurl it out the gd front door!" The boys slept in it last night. Very fun stuff. Thanks again husband!

I finished a toboggan last night. I really love this one. We don't need toboggans. We are not going to sell them. I don't care if I end up with 1000 toboggans and scarves all over the house. I love to meditate when I make them. The looms force me to "be still."


Project Shut Down is fantastical.