Live Blogging Thursday
Posted on | July 30, 2009 | 17 Comments
Hi Thursday. I’ve been off in my own world lately, doing things. One of the things I have been doing is trying to sort out some issues with my blog and the funky charset issues that occurred with an upgrade to a newer version of WordPress. As a result I’ve been going through my archives, and holy moly I’ve been blogging a while. This is the 901 post on this blog. Crazy, right?
Anyway, what I realized is that I love reading my older posts that just capture whatever we were doing that day, right in the moment. Maybe they are banal moments, but they are ours and I like the record. I like seeing where we were, and where we are now, and lately I haven’t been doing nearly enough of that here.
So. Today. LIVE BLOGGING. I’m going to update this post a bunch throughout the day as Bean and Sprout and I gallivant and get ourselves into situations. I would LOVE for you to join in and live blog your day too. Leave a comment with a link to your post if you do.
9:32 A.M.:
This is what our morning looks like often. The boys hanging out together doing things. Sprout has just started rolling over back to tummy (he’s been doing tummy to back for a while) and with this whole new range of mobility he is tearing things up! Bean likes the company.
Breakfast. This is a classic for me: toss two pieces of bread with ample butter into a pan. Crack two eggs on top, any old place. Cook the whole mess. Eat. The toast is dreamy. Buttery and crisp. The eggs are hard, which I like. Also a latte.
Now we are off to carve sticks and build fairy houses in the back yard while Sprout naps.
1:20 P.M. Harder than I thought to keep up with our active family & actually post pictures!
From the morning fairy house making: Bean was very serious about using the pocket knife. He sharpened the ends of sticks to poke into the moss to build the structure. We gathered small stones and shells and field flowers. When you stop to look, even the most humble clover astounds.
When we came indoors we had slice after slice of cantaloupe and then went for an impromptu raspberry picking adventure with DH. Bean raced up and down the rows, eating more berries certainly than he picked. Sprout sampled some too, and didn’t seem to have any complaints. I am picturing some type of raspberry cobbler for dessert tonight.
Now Bean is napping and Sprout and I are hanging out in the back yard. The end of summer crickets have begun their ruckus, even though it has only felt like summer for the past week. We’ve had so much rain, these days of warm and gold have been balm to our damp spirits.
Next up: exercise, a swim at the pond, and making dessert.
How has your Thursday been treating you?
3:25 P.M. We just had the best swim. I am slowly but surely teaching Bean to swim in the neighbor’s pond. I didn’t bring the camera–one too many things to haul! But he was great and giggly and super cute. He put his head under and kicked gorgeously and tried many times to push off from the side and paddle to me. He’ll be swimming by the end of the summer, I think.
Where is everyone today?
10:39 P.M. It was a perfect day. Not every day turns out like this, but I am happy that this was the day I picked to keep my camera close at hand and record moments.
After our swim at the pond DH and I worked out, Sprout watched and Bean painted.
Then Bean and Sprout did some chilling out with books.
Then dinner. Pasta with fresh basil, oregano, chives, tomatoes, olives, and sausage.
And the best raspberry cobbler ever. EVER. (so easy to make: 1 c. flour + 1c. whipped cream folded together with 4 tsp. sugar for the crust–apply in lumps over 2 pints raspberries w/ 1/4-1/2c. sugar and 4tbs butter cut into small pieces. Bake at 375 for 45 minutes.) DIVINE.
I loved reading the comments today. There is something so fascinating to me about the minutia of life. I am really looking forward to some of you doing some live blogging too. A peak into your world as it unfolds.
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July 30th, 2009 @ 10:18 am
Love this! I should do this today>! but since I didn’t start out doing it, I may do it tomorrow instead! i will check back to see yours!
tara
July 30th, 2009 @ 12:48 pm
love this. those are also always my favorites when I go through my own archives..something sacred in the mundane I think.
I might try this tomorrow. Today it is a very uncharacteristic 100+ day in the northwest and my sad little lap top can’t take being turned on all day so I’m shutting down now not to return until the sun goes down…when I will return to see how the rest of your glorious sounding day turned out.
July 30th, 2009 @ 2:30 pm
Our pictures would be full of chicken pox, benadryl and oatmeal baths. I’d love to try this next week when we’re on the mend.
These types of posts are my favorite, too.
July 30th, 2009 @ 3:29 pm
Such a fun day! And it’s not even over yet!
Where am I today? I just spent an hour and a half playing tennis for the very, very first time in my life and I loved it! My quads are already feeling lethargic and some fruit is sounding like a good pick-me-up about now.
July 30th, 2009 @ 5:50 pm
Today was sucked up by my office job then a quick run to the gym. Now I’m a teeny bit early for a meeting at church. I loved your post, though. I need to learn to do those myself. I get hung up on the picture, but I don’t really know why. Words can tell the story.
July 30th, 2009 @ 7:53 pm
it is harder to do than it seems isn’t it?!
maybe next time post the whole day the following day?! I want to do this tomorrow!
today my day was:
Vacation Bible School for the girls, me on the computer and doing laundry, back to pick them up, grilled cheese sandwichs and tomato soup for lunch. I had to take a nap because I was just exhausted (this happens to me about every 3 months during “that time of the month”, the girls did a science experiment, watched t.v and played while I slept. then we went outside to play (scooters, bikes, chalk), then we went out for dinner and on the way home saw the most awesome rainbow! I took some pix when we got home! tomorrow I am carrying my point & shoot with me the whole day!
thanks!
tara
July 30th, 2009 @ 9:12 pm
what a lovely day! love the pictures.
July 30th, 2009 @ 9:33 pm
Posted the picture of the rainbow we saw tonight! there was actually a double rainbow, but the 2nd one wasn’t showing up!
can’t wait til tomorrow to see the rest of your pix!!!!
I am going to take my point & shoot with me all day tomorrow, so check my blog for it!
love your blog so so MUCH!
tara
July 30th, 2009 @ 9:40 pm
I adore seeing the pictures! And of course it warms my heart to see Sprout on that quilt
7:36pm, my man is downstairs packing the last of the kitchen, I’m getting online briefly to put on some music and got sucked in. 4 suitcases await my packing. I’ve become the family suitcase packer which I don’t mind at all most of the time. We are down to a bed, desk, chair and the last of the boxes. Tomorrow my sister and dad come and take the last of our stuff and help move the furniture for the people who bought it. (LOVE Craigslist for selling stuff when you move–21st century garage sale).
The rest of my day included celebratory drinks and dessert with 3 girlfriends from school because I passed my dissertation proposal hearing! Had a really interesting intellectual conversation with 3 professors I respect a lot, about stuff I’m interested in.
When I stop to think about what I do, how I spend my moments, it starts to feel like I could go on. That is what I’ve always loved about writing, which somehow I’ve lost with my Ph.D.writing. I bet it’s going to come back when I am doing my research though…day after day in schools hopefully!
Back to the moving, just dropped a bright pink post-it down to J to put on the door of our loft and remind us to do the self-clean on the oven the next time we go out later tonight. Time to sort shoes and pack the rest of our clothes….
July 30th, 2009 @ 9:54 pm
Your quilts are invaluable Willow. I don’t know what we’d do without them. We use them DAILY. xoxo!
July 31st, 2009 @ 8:33 am
Looooove this. I really love the picture of Sprout in the grass – he looks like a wayward turtle. And your reading nook is oh so perfect – I’m inspired to make one for Thomas! Of course he has a basket full of books by his bed but I’m thinking some cushions are in order! I’m hankering after a comfy reading chair all my own, too.
I’ll have to do this. But our lives are oh so boring (no really – REALLY) and we stay inside a lot because of the heat. Maybe I can formulate an adventure to make it worthwhile?
July 31st, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
Really, all I have to do is look at your blog and I get inspired. You are my younger and hotter muse. You’re the Olivia Newton-John to my…whoever that actor guy was in Xanadu. We never saw him again, did we?
Anyway, so doing this on Saturday. At work today with no camera.
July 31st, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
Love this idea..am going to try it tomorrow from my phone..thx for the heads up x
August 1st, 2009 @ 12:37 am
Late post–just totally love your day. Bean play by himself, hm? My 3 1/2 yr old won’t paint/play clay etc etc etc alone. “Can you play with me?” and I can’t say no! Trying to occupy him along with my 15 month old is (honestly) hard. My older son for the most part doesn’t want to share playing time with him. Hey, son, my plan was for the two of you to be inseparable buds!!
August 1st, 2009 @ 1:33 pm
I read the first part but then couldn’t check back in until today. What a lovely day you chronicled!
August 3rd, 2009 @ 8:46 am
So loved your day, it was beautiful. June mentioned you on her blog and asked a bunch of us to do this. Thanks for the inspiration, I had fun documenting my slow and easy Sunday.
August 6th, 2009 @ 1:41 am
I am a late-comer to this…but it was so fun to read! Sprout sure is getting big! I keep picturing him as a new-born. Thanks for sharing your day.