Waitin' and Watchin'

Big night at our house....waiting for the teenager types that live here to find their way home, and watching paint dry. I started painting the bathroom ceiling tonight, and I figure if Mitch and Alisa are late enough, I might get the second coat on before I go to bed. I always assumed I would be the kind of mom that always waited up for my kids to get home, but I am finding that it's not always easy to do. They older they get, the more skilled I have become at circumnavigating the worry gene, and the older I get, the more important my sleep becomes. I like to be awake when they get home, as it seems to be a time they are more open to talking about stuff, but sometimes I am only half there. By the time the youngest gets to those years, I will probably be only half there on my best days.

Yesterday we went to the pumkin patch, or as Miss Livvi adorably calls it, the "punkin patch." We didn't grow our own this year, so I thought it would be fun to have the kids at least get to pick their own. And this is what I love about living in our little valley: it's a self serve pumpkin patch, with a sign that says "pick your own", and a little box to put your money in. The prices were cheap too, so we brought home a burbload. Of course Audrey got burrs down in her shoe and there were bugs EVERYWHERE, but it was a nice little Wednesday adventure.

Audrey and Liv are at the Salt Lake house tonight with G and G. It is UEA weekend for most of the state of Utah, which means that Disneyland will be overrun with Mormons for the next few days. Our school, being a charter school, doesn't believe in UEA, so we are on fall break. Either way, no school for the rest of the week. Duncan and Will and I went to see Kung Foo Panda at the dollar movies tonight, and I will close with a little nibble of wisdom from the turtle:
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."