Holiday Life

Time... energy, I wish I had both of them at the same time. That is what is needed for a blog. Or maybe it is the creativity and need to write things down. I have spent the last week on holidays. Christmas holidays to be specific. We have done many things and hung out with lots of people but nothing has grabbed my inspiration to write something awesome, cool, fictional with a splash of sarcasm. I guess it has just been a great time with family doing what seems to be nothing. We are not stuck down with the day to day tasks of working, school, making lunches, reading with the kids, signing papers, going to weekly programs, and doing all the other stuff to survive the day, week, month, and year. I wish I could capture that time, moment, mind set, to just be in every moment and taking in all the sounds, sights, and smells, with out neglecting the sight for future enjoyments and requirements. People intrigue me. I enjoy watching them. Observing them. I admit that most of my learning in life has been from the good or bad choices people have made in their life. Does this make me prone from bad mistakes... choices, no not at all. Does this make me perfect.... no not at all... and I am glad for that. I would not be able to learn from mine and others mistakes if that were the case. I would not work at being a better husband and father. At trying to improve at riding my bike faster and harder up hills. And take the time to improve my skills and treatment of patients in my work as a dental hygienist. Wow for having no energy or writing fancy the words have come and fallen from my fingers. Now to bed.

J.R.R. Tolkien

He was a skilled writer of fiction, be it, almost fairy tale like. His books have become great epic movies (The Lord of the Rings). And The Hobbit has made it first appreance on the big screen.

 

But does the author himself look like a Hobbit, Mr. Bilbo Baggins.

Did he write the books with him as the central character? Or did Peter Jackson pay eulogy to the great author by portraying Bilbo Baggins as J.R.R. Tolkien?

 

Just Wondering!



Pre Dinner Chaos

We are setting the table for dinner and my son is being very loud. KAeden is making schreeching noises and Livi is acting a little like a drama queen because she doesn't want to take her vitamin. Angie is cleaning up the kitchen and she is verbally keeping the troop moving toward dinner. Pip is eating out of the garbage which is irritating Angie and I am observing. Relaxing by the window knowing that this will all calm down in no time. We are off to the table and life will reset.

Gingerbread Decorating

On a boring Sunday afternoon I decided we should make gingerbread men. Angie was sick and laid up on the couch with her medication,... a book, and the kids were restless.

We decided that today when the kids get off from school, it would be the time to decorate the gingerbread men and other gingerbread figures.

The Table

 

 

The Finished Products (some)

 

 

 

It was a good time of decorating and eating candy. The kids have hit the age where they can actually concentrate and do a project without our help.

 



 



Pippa

The Dog

 

 

I enjoy shredding paper, cardboard, and shoes. Stealing teddy bears from kids and pulling their clothes off of them. As much as I love dog food, I heartedly enjoy eating cat crap, garbage scraps and licking the dishes in the dishwasher. I have a bed of my own, but would rather take up yours and attempt to crowd you out. I love simple games of tug a war and going for long runs. Just when you wish to relax for the evening, I come alive and bark until someone notices me. I am the family dog.



Moments

Stirring inside the deep lagoon.
The boy planned to jump with out a splash.
He glanced left.
He glanced right.
And with one spring.
His muscles twitched.
Launching him airborne.
High.
The wind carried him.
The air tickled him.
He was as he wished to be.
A bird.
And.
In a moment.
A Fish.