Fairy Dust

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My Pip. She has a little cold. Her big sis Tabs is home again with a sore throat and cough. However, it is very mild and I hope she will return to school tomorrow. Needless to say, our swim night is cancelled until all are well. It is just as well as I have to have Mistaya at drama rehearsal in make-up and curled hair for 5:30. And I must send her with a supper to-go. Tonight I am making club house sandwiches and sweet potato fries. Easy.

This weekend my girls and I will start our pot garden on our balcony. Also, I am planting perhaps 100 sunflowers on our back slope. 
I am in a confused state of mind as I am not ready to plan out my thesis in detail until I am finished my classes…I guess I better discuss this with my supervisor. I need the time to figure it all out. I am not sure I am ready to nail it down yet. I just do not have the time. Every spare minute I spend on my class. Three children take up a lot of time. And they are unpredictable with their wants. Take today: Tabs decided to stay home. The school phoned and said it was picture day. I had to drop Pip at day care, drive Tabs to school and then pick her up again at lunch, which took a least 1/2h + out of my work time. Pip’s day care teacher’s son was in the same predicament so I drove him to school too.
Mistaya is busy all weekend with her play, thus PJ and I will be staying close to home as she is our one and only babysitter. And we must be available to drive her to and from the performances.
I admit it, working on classes takes too much time. I am longing to be able to spend more time on my passions: writing and painting.
Will meditate tonight–saw a picture of a woman on a pilgrimage in Tibet, she was walking around Mnt. Kawagebo– a sacred Buddhist site. I SO want to got to India and Tibet. But alas, schooling first.  This is how I am feeling,  little tired of my class (it is the most boring one yet) and so longing to have the time to get on with my passions in life. But I cannot travel the world on fairy dust, and this is why I am going to graduate school–to advance my career. And then hopefully my pockets will be filled with more than just fairy dust.
And speaking of fairies, we have a resident fairy in our home. Her name is Larch, she is actually a brownie. My girls have been communicating with her for years, she usually writes back and always drinks the chocolate milk they leave for her.

2 Responses

  1. Miranda
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    what ever happened to the yummy mummytrip 2009?
    and no pilgrimages to the holy land for you?

    only study study study?

    who are you!?

  2. Melissa Mix Hart
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    I’m here, feeling blue this month. Yucky class and the media’s hysteria over swine flu have got to go! I want to pilgrimage. So as soon as you arrive in K let us plan the pilgrimage to the holy land 😀

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