Almost Full Moon

Good morning! It is a nice, fairly non buggy morning out. However, milk production isn’t what it ought to be. I think I would like to go back to bed. I’m not sure why—it’s quiet, no one else is up, it should be good for...something.

Yesterday was an okay day. I wrote over 1,000 pages on the little paper on water and birth and don’t know how little it is going to actually be. I went through all of my books and there were six with really good blurbs about water and birth. So far, only the oldest says anything about the water breaking and the danger of germs and it even admits that not everyone agrees about how bad it is at home in a woman’s own tub. One of the books led to a very interesting sounding article but I can’t get to it online because I don’t have the proper authority. I need Joanna’s student ID so that I can access it online or I need to go up to the Mount and access it from there because I don’t have to have an ID to access it from the school. Too bad I can’t also print things out in the Honor’s Room now. Being a student definitely has its advantages.

I also wrote somewhat more than 1,000 pages in my story and decided to have Cailin and Hywel go ahead to Leinad. Currently, they’re on a barge floating down the Ylreveb River which pretty much takes them right there from Regrebmal. Cailin is having a dream and is about to wake up.

In other news, the glow plug light in the bug came on again, or rather started flashing at me again, on the way home from church Wednesday night so it needs to go see a Volkswagon specialist down south of Springfield. Since it’s hard to get there with Paul, I need to find someone who can go down with me and bring me home during the day. Yesterday would have been perfect in the morning because Laura didn’t go to work until 4:00 but Paul didn’t know to tell me until nearly noon by which time it was a bit late. We would have had to take the boys as well because not even Amena was home which would not have been terribly fun. Today might work if we left about now but I think I’d rather do it next week when there will be someone older home with the boys.

Nice almost full moon for a pretty awesome birthday boy, I think.

Joseph wanted to open presents in the worst way yesterday. It’s hard for a seven-year-old to wait. But last night Paul was gone, Laura was gone, and Joanna was gone. Wouldn’t have been all that much fun with so many people gone. I know Sunday feels like waiting forever to him, but I think it will be worth it.

Yesterday afternoon Dan called to tell Joseph happy birthday. Then Uncle Jay called. Pretty good for a seven-year-old. The boys wanted to watch Despicable Me so I let them and I watched it with them. It is pretty cute. We need to get Despicable Me 2 when it comes out.

Whoever heard of using the flash to take a picture of the moon? This one is with, the first is without.

I don’t know what’s up for today. Probably not much terribly exciting. Seth picked some peaches yesterday and they’re cute and pretty but don’t taste as good as the first ones we picked. I didn’t want to can any because they’re small but they are nice and they’d work well for just halving so I might go ahead and do some. I need to replenish those that we’ve eaten anyway.

And that’s it for now. Have an absolutely wonderful day!