Mochi, Colleen & Ambiana in Vermont...:)

We are getting Jakobi Kai a passport and this is her photo for it, we made it ourselves and have 4 left over if anyone wants a little jakobi kai magnet for their fridge we'll make you one...and yes we are planning a trip; a month long excursion to Tortula in the British Virgin Isles!

We held a fairyhouse building playdate at our home the 2nd and 3rd Thursdays in November. Our friends Karen and Aila, Feather and her daughter, Cara and Callum and Yanna and her 2 kids all came out on the frosty mornings to celebrate the autumn season. We told stories, sang songs and and built houses for the fairies in the woods.

Colleen made yummy muffins...

Here is Yanna talking with Colleen and Ricarta, Yanna is the one who told us about Tortula in the British Virgin Isles and she and her family are going there too!

nina, ambiana and ayla

mommy reading

TOLEDO for THANKSGIVING

We drove overnight to Ohio stopping 1st to pick up Gaelen. I drank my 32oz +2 espresso shot coffee concoction and listened to john kraukaers Pat Tillman book, more about how much the army and those in charge suck. Tillman is portrayed as the embodiment of the virtue and integrity which is missing in the leadership of our country. Giving up the lifestyle which is glamourized and futilely sought after by the masses, the dream life that Madison avenue feeds us via TV and celebrity tossed aside because of duty...he took it too personally, it doesn't mean anything, Tillman died for nothing but his ideals which the army and its leadership do not share. He was killed by his own troops in the insanity that is war and then was attempted to be sold to us ala jessica lycnh which is also in the book as Tillman was in the unit that rescued her but did nothing, sat back in case support was needed in that charade...

the charade of war, so senseless so what the f%$k??? wouldn't we rather be making our planet as habitable as possible and living in joy but we don't because we are mind f%*ked and enslaved in a false reality to0 caught up in watching and imitating rather than living our truth...power...

The soviets got mired in Afghanistan and now it's the US empire and its making f&#kers rich and that is why it is done, so someone can feel their worth at the expense of others, passive aggressive action on a global scale. How many people could we feed and give good lives with all those billions??? why to we continue to play along? Let's go on STRIKE, stop buying all the stuff...only what we need then go cold turkey, they'll cut-off the food and then the dying will begin...

long drive, lots of thoughts, we arrived at 5am, woke Chuck up to let us in. Ben sue and Tony arrived around 11am from detroit where they saw Widespreadpanic the night before. The family together for the first time since Patti's wedding in '95.

Ambiana was so excited to see Maya who moved far away in June. They painted faces all week starting with Susanna and Katie.

Tony's Gal Beth, they are engaged.

Overwhelmed Poppa put us up at the Ramada Inn where there was a pool. We also had the Boston market catered Thanksgiving dinner there with the Travis Family from Massena Ny and Cleveland, only Billy and Karen and the girls were missing :( and Mom's older Sister Pat joined us as well.

Turkey Trot 2009 5K

Our first Race with Jakobi and the double-jogger. Katie, Gamma, Maya and Susanna joined us early Thanksgiving morning to cheer us on

Ambiana had been talking about the kids run for a month but when the time came, up-too-late, long-car-trip, too-much-chocolate, made her a weepy butt and see didn't run but Gaelen did and he placed 4th...