tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80363734215095804092024-03-05T02:45:51.906-08:00Seeds of Kindnessplanting seeds * growing a family * raising a ruckus * creating community * working hard * sharing laughter * providing comfort * minding the lightyalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-32190033769142785922013-10-14T17:09:00.001-07:002013-10-14T17:09:51.316-07:00Menu Monday: October 14-20<b>Monday</b><br />
B: pumpkin donuts, pears, milk<br />
L: cheese omelet, green salad<br />
S: brown rice, <a href="http://www.melskitchencafe.com/2009/02/sweet-and-sour-meatballs.html" target="_blank">sweet & sour meatballs</a>, stir fry veggies<br />
<b>Tuesday</b><br />
B: toast, cardamom-peach kefir<br />
L: veggie<a href="http://www.zenfamilyhabits.net/2010/01/5-ingredients-5-minutes-5-meals-simple-noodles/"> veggie </a>laksal<br />
S: <a href="http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-cuban-black-bean-soup-98048" target="_blank">Cuban black bean soup</a>, cornbread, chipotle slaw, fruit salad<br />
<b>Wednesday</b><br />
B: <a href="http://m.foodnetwork.com/recipes/17312" target="_blank">crepes</a>, applesauce, Greek yogurt<br />
L: mini mummy pizzas, fruit, veggie sticks<br />
S: <a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/12/chicken-and-dumplings/" target="_blank">chicken & dumplings</a>, salad, baked apples<br />
<b>Thursday</b><br />
B: <a href="http://www.the-girl-who-ate-everything.com/2011/10/pumpkin-cream-cheese-muffins.html" target="_blank">pumpkin cream cheese muffins</a>, pears<br />
L: peanut butter & raisin sandwiches<br />
S: tortellini with broccoli & parmesan, rosemary bread, salad<br />
<b>Friday</b><br />
B: <a href="http://joannagoddard.blogspot.com/2012/02/best-egg-sandwich-youll-ever-have.html?m=1" target="_blank">eggie sandwiches</a>, fruit slices<br />
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The rest of the week is a free for all of guesting, visiting, parties, and excitement, but we will definitely be bringing these <a href="http://www.saveur.com/gallery/Saveurs-Best-Recipes-2012/10" target="_blank">baked beans</a> to a potluck, and making these <a href="http://www.momendeavors.com/2010/10/spider-web-snacks.html" target="_blank">spiderweb snacks</a> for a little pre-halloween fun!<br />
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<br />yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-16158919407661063472013-02-09T00:12:00.001-08:002013-02-09T00:12:13.479-08:00A New Baby (a Sister!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maren Amelia Case 1 week old Nov. 2012<br /></td></tr>
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<br />yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-67259221246408626602013-02-05T00:45:00.000-08:002013-02-05T00:45:09.363-08:00Explaining Culture (with Netflix)<br />
Want to get inside my head? You know you do- and it will only take 3 hours and 49 minutes.<br />
Watch these three documentaries in this order:<br />
<a href="http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Burma_Encounters_in_a_Forgotten_Country/70253368?locale=en-US">Burma:Encounters in a Forgotten Country</a><br />
<a href="https://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/They_Call_It_Myanmar_Lifting_the_Curtain/70256185?locale=en-US">They Call It Myanmar</a><br />
<a href="http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Burma_VJ/70113931?locale=en-US">Burma VJ </a><br />
Then read Dan Sperber's book "Explaining Culture", or at least think about this- maybe instead of thinking about culture as a bubble people live in, we'd be better off to think of culture as breath (breathe in what I understand, breathe out what I think).<br />
That means that every breath I take is a breath of changing culture. It means that my ideas, your ideas, are important to the culture. We cannot live by only breathing in, after all.It means no two people have exactly the same culture, because each person will see and hear and think things at least slightly off from the next person's view. It also makes culture a much more intimate thing, a living, breathing, deeply personal and also public thing. It means I share culture with you, whether I like it or not, and so I have a responsibility to care for you, to help you be healthy and strong, since I don't want to breathe in toxic air. I have a responsibility to be involved, and to work for a culture that I WANT my children breathing and growing in.<br />
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yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-4128761192983663762012-07-27T23:41:00.000-07:002012-07-27T23:43:11.492-07:00VacationSo we drove 5070 miles. With three boys. Through the Midwest. In the middle of a drought. During the summer. I don't think we were ever so happy to be home as we were when we pulled into the driveway after those weeks on the road.<br />
The memorable parts, in order of occurrence:<br />
1) Leaving my purse, with $300 cash in it, at a restaurant in Twin Falls Idaho. On a Saturday night. In a restaurant that was closed on Sundays. Realizing my purse was left, in the high chair in the women's restroom (no hook to hang it on) on Sunday morning. Yep. Awesome start to the trip. Luckily we were able to find the owner and eventually convince him to open the doors and my purse was still there, and everything was in it, just as I'd left it. Whew. On to<br />
2) Salt Lake City, Utah. By the time we arrived everyone was too hungry and hot and grumpy to take family photos at Temple Square, or do more than drive by the Olympic sights (more awesome family photo backdrops wasted), so we found a little park and ate mini bagels and cream cheese and turkey, drank warm lemonade, and got back in the car. We drove to Salton, which used to be this awesome health spa on the Great Salt Lake about a zillion years ago. We trudged (carefully, avoiding the masses of bird carcasses) across the hot hot sand for a 1/4 (1/2) mile or so to the lake, through a thick blanket of sand fleas, and onward, intrepid Caseload, into the water for another 1/4 mile until it was deep enough to try floating. The water was super warm, like a bath, and FULL of brine shrimp, live ones in swarms, dead ones under foot, in huge crunchy swathes. But we did it! We all floated. That is pretty cool, but I'm happy considering it a once in a lifetime sort of thing.<br />
3)Dinosaur National Monument. Amazing! The kids were enthralled. Ansel appointed himself dinosaur expert. Miles became a Jr. Ranger for the first time and took his duties VERY seriously. So seriously it breaks your heart. Ah, sweet, sweet boy!<br />
4)11.5 hours of googlemap drive time across Colorado and Kansas to Wichita. It was 105 degrees. And so windy the little kids were in danger of being blown over every time we got out of the car. They desperately tried playing on the most rundown, pathetic playground I've ever seen, in the middle of western Kansas, but even they gave up before long. Avery asking why Dorothy tried so hard to get home, hilarious.<br />
5)Spending the afternoon at the Hawker Beechcraft training center with Aaron's cousin, who is an instructor there. Unexpected and very, very cool. Getting to play around in one of those $17,000,000 flight simulators, way too cool! Leaving our pillows and the cell phone charger in Wichita, at Ben and sweet Lindsay's perfect little Kansas farm house, not so cool.<br />
6)Leaving three light sabers, the kids' favorite toys, in a park in Missouri. Misery. Miles might have cried all the way across Iowa.<br />
7) Eating lunch out of the cooler (some variation of bagels, cream cheese, turkey, veggie sticks, warm lemonade) for the 7th day in a row. Sad. Even if it was warm mango lemonade instead of plain.<br />
8)All the new words the kids learned from Aaron's relatives in Iowa. All kinds of new vocabulary words for all kinds of bodily functions, some of them anatomically impossible (I think) and most all of them immoral, unethical, and probably illegal in most states.<br />
9)Aaron getting stopped for suspicion of drunk driving after a family barbecue where he was the only one of his family members NOT drinking, and he was only driving 20 in a 25 mile zone to try to get the little ones to fall asleep before we made it back to the house. Funny. Ironic, though, since the officer could have gone about two miles down the road and arrested most of the family and made his quota in one fell swoop. Oh well.<br />
10)Aaron having a 36 hour gall bladder attack and spending hours puking and writhing in pain in the waiting room of the University of Iowa hospital before they finally brought him back, spent two hours rehydrating him, giving him IV painkillers, and doing one quick ultrasound.Not so cool. Getting the bill three weeks later, for $8000, also not so cool.<br />
11) Day at the water park with a select few of Aaron's family members, super fun for us. Not so fun for Aron, who was still in agony and spent the entire day curled up on a lounge chair in the shade. But Miles finally worked up the courage to brave the big slides, and had a blast. And Ansel loved the wave pool. And being in the water was good and fun and relaxing.<br />
12) The car phone charger finally dying.<br />
13) Realizing one of Aaron's best friends from high school not only lives in Iowa again, but lives less than 100 feet from his Mom's house, and having two lovely, wonderful visits with him and his sweet, funny partner and their adorable new baby girl. That was great. Repeated conversations with the kids about why David can have a projector and huge screen in his TV room (what a way to play video games!) and we can't, well, oh well.<br />
14) The Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD. Both Aaron and I got all teary. We're saps, apparently. Well, we knew that already, but still. Places like that are testament to the goodness of America, the promise of communities working together, putting their best foot forward, and it's good. Corn flavored and shaped lollipops, however, are not so great.<br />
15)The car DVD player I pestered and whined and begged about getting for weeks before the trip breaking, just not playing anything anymore. Devastating. Really. Have you ever driven through South Dakota with three kids in the middle of a heat wave? With a sick husband? Pregnant? Don't judge me.<br />
16)The Badlands. Love.<br />
17) Being too worn out and hot and grumpy to go to Mt. Rushmore. Bummer. Being grownups and getting to make these calls, being able to change plans and go straight to the hot springs resort in Montana, well, that's good.<br />
<span style="background-color: white;">18) The hot springs resort in Montana. Fabulous. Even if by the time we made reservations there was only one room left, no cabins, no suites. No queen beds. No rooms with bathrooms. Just one room, a third floor walk up, no elevator, with a two double beds and a bathroom down the hall. And no A/C. Oh yes. But it was funky and sweet and fabulous and we all loved it and should have just planned our vacation to be spent there. Swimming in a warm, warm swimming pool in the evening, with a band playing and the pools filled with every eligible 20 or 30 something in Southern Montana, and the guard that probably really wanted to be a stripper posing all around the pool in front of every cluster of pretty young things, maybe a bit much. But swimming in that same pool at 7 in the morning with just a couple of other families, fun, and pretty, and a lovely start to the day.</span><br />
19) Yellowstone National Park. Wonderful. Getting to actually see Old Faithful this time, terrific. Having this be the best picture of our family of the entire trip, not so wonderful. And Avery took the picture, so he's not even in the picture.<br />
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20)Avery waking up in the middle of our last night with a fever and puking. And keeping the fever and the vomiting all the way home the next day. Filling a zillion ziploc bags with vomited bile, stopping every 20 miles so he could throw up along the way. It was already 9 1/2 hours of drive time from Bozeman to our house. It took longer, let me tell you. Miserable.<br />
21)The cheap pull-ups I bought for Ansel for the trip not working, so that every time he peed he leaked out into his clothes and his car seat, well, that wasn't so cool. And it didn't help the car smell any better by the end of the trip, either.<br />
22) Ansel dumping an entire bottle of chocolate milk all over himself, his car seat, and the middle row of the van when we were within an hour and a half from home. Might have been expected earlier in the trip (which is why I didn't allow any chocolate milk or sticky, stainy, hard to clean up liquids in the back of the van for the entire trip, until just that moment when I handed him the bottle of brown, sticky, stainy, impossible to clean up milk and he proceeded to tip it up to his mouth and pour the entire thing out all over himself).<br />
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23) Pulling into our driveway, late at night, and going into our own house, and sleeping in our own beds, might have been, could have been, almost maybe was, the best part of our vacation. Certainly the most relaxing part.yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-2002547632958252892012-07-26T15:30:00.000-07:002012-07-26T15:30:07.397-07:00Hello?Okay, so I haven't been around much. Or, actually, I HAVE been around, just not sitting around at the computer. At all.<br />
But this is too good- my husband got to meet the president, one of 12 or so people waiting at the steps of Air Force One in Seattle the other day. Aaron told the president a funny story and got a laugh, a shoulder clap, even had the president start to step away and then turn back with a funny comeback. Awesome! Not everyone gets to make the President of the United States have to think of a comeback!<br />
He's here, pretty much in the middle of the line, with the bald head.<br />
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yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-34747877461044202432010-09-24T13:48:00.001-07:002010-09-24T14:27:47.417-07:00Boys and Weapons<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihFyd_PWhABuM993ntWPrWQLtHUjVqcJ4rhjxHc7g3InMYpBnLdMFquCels5HYqtu81ecnIxFyVnt3ASll_3KK9XzjxNadZRnqpaMOPAq1LOH7YLg3goDSWJmnO2kO1NoVIh8FJE3Rjg-Y/s1600/drc_children_congolese_child_soldiers_congo_child_fighters.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihFyd_PWhABuM993ntWPrWQLtHUjVqcJ4rhjxHc7g3InMYpBnLdMFquCels5HYqtu81ecnIxFyVnt3ASll_3KK9XzjxNadZRnqpaMOPAq1LOH7YLg3goDSWJmnO2kO1NoVIh8FJE3Rjg-Y/s400/drc_children_congolese_child_soldiers_congo_child_fighters.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520585076126825250" border="0" /></a>How did we go from the family with the absolute zero tolerance for guns, not even toy guns, not even water guns, to the family that <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">shrieks</span> happily through the woods throwing <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">pine cones</span>, I mean "sonic grenades" and "frag grenades", at each other until everyone is dead? How?<br />Plastic light sabers.<br />The gateway weapon.<br />So fake, so pretend, so harmless. So fun.<br />And now- now none of the pine cones and bits of bark collected for the nature table are safe. I think I need my own light saber just to protect my armory of horse chestnuts and dried dogwood berries from invading armies of boys come to pillage my sweet <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Waldorfy</span> treasure trove, er... weapons cache.<br />I still haven't gotten used to having to make the choice, in my own boy-ravaged home, of a toilet seat that is either always up or always sticky, and now this! What's most shocking is that now I join in, and run, laughing and trilling just as loudly as they, flinging "grenades" and cheering "strikes".<br />And just like that, we've become, I guess, a family I wouldn't have let my own past tense boys play with.<br />All because of light sabers.<br />Light sabers and delicious, most serious, epic, hours long hot summer battles of boys in the park, scores and scores of boys, forming battalions and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">hierarchies</span>, marching in formation, falling in battle, being revived, soldiering on.<br />Blast you, insidious light saber of doom!yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-90977289343632814202010-09-02T08:39:00.000-07:002010-09-02T08:46:46.714-07:00The D-Day PiperBill Millin, the bagpiper at Normandy, passed on recently. We didn't know him, but oh! the tears sprang forth anyhow all across our house when the Economist arrived this week. <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/16885894?story_id=16885894">Here's</a> his obituary, you can read it too.yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-26976963796914295152010-08-31T13:52:00.000-07:002010-08-31T13:57:44.624-07:00And we're back!Wow! Apparently the birthday month really took it out of me, huh?<br />Well, in reality, we've had a most exhausting year, with sickness and over-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">workedness</span> leaving no room for much else but simple maintenance.<br />But I'm back. We're started the new school year- this is week three already, and it's going great. Avery's so independent and interested, Miles is excited to have his own school time each day devoted just to him. Ansel is, well, Ansel, and pretty much happy for any scraps of attention a third kid can get.<br />Ah....yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-50819105091939790562010-03-02T11:07:00.000-08:002010-03-02T11:13:19.564-08:00Month of Cakes, Done!Carrot cake, Lemon Cake, Banana Cake, Applesauce Cake, Chocolate Cake, Carrot Cake, Brownies.<br />UGH!<br />No... more... cake....<br /><br />For a year.<br /><br />Right?yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-78557407935067529772010-01-09T10:19:00.000-08:002010-01-09T10:50:39.060-08:00Gearing Up... for the Birthday month.<br />I've still got a couple weeks before the 26<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">th</span> and the official start, but it's coming FAST.<br />Avery will be 10.<br />Then Papa's birthday four days later.<br />Ansel will be 1.<br />Then five days later Miles will be 4.<br />And eleven days later is my birthday, though who is kidding who here? By then we're all sick of birthday cake....<br /><br />Speaking of birthday cake- everyone wants carrot cake, but that won't do- it's just too much of a good thing. But everyone deserves to have their choice of cake on their birthday, at least, right? And so I start my subtle campaign to convince the members of the house to change their tastes and minds. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Oooh</span>! Look at this picture of a cake! Doesn't THAT look good?! Wow! I'd LOVE to try that kind of cake....<br />So far... only Ansel has caved. He was chewing on a picture of a banana. Which clearly means he desires banana cake with chocolate frosting for his birthday, don't you think?<br /><br />And then the parties... Avery always had these big, well organized and attended parties, with hand sewn party hats and homemade pinatas. He's chosen simpler things the last couple of years- a special dinner, a trip to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">OMSI</span> in Portland. I have no idea what he wants this year, but hopefully it will be in that vein.<br /><br />Miles has never had a real kid party, and this won't be the year it happens for him. I'm thinking a joint Ansel-Miles birthday party. Abraham Lincoln's birthday is the 12<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">th</span> of February, a Friday, right in the middle between Ansel and Miles. A good day for a party. And Mary Todd Lincoln was well known for making a special sweetheart's cake for old Abe, so that's a logical tie-in.<br /><br />The problem with combined parties, of course, is that you're really just adding in another cake, since everyone needs a little celebration on their real birthday too.<br /><br />And so... we're still at four carrot cakes in four weeks, plus a banana cake and a butter cake.<br /><br />I guess we're all getting elastic pants for our birthdays, there's just no way around it.yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-81432327385150378772010-01-07T16:35:00.000-08:002010-01-07T17:18:08.306-08:00Reasons to Homeschool: Harried to HappyMorning could be hectic and harried for us- if we had to get everyone washed, dressed, fed, bundled up, out of the house and to school, daycare, work on time. They could be, but they're not, because we don't HAVE to be anywhere but right where we are.<br />This morning, when I felt obliged to give the baby an impromptu bath to wash the fistfuls of crusting-in mush and browning banana <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">smoosh</span> out of his hair, and the three year old decided to strip naked in the hall and take a running dive into the tub (no one in my house can stand missing out on a bath) I felt just a little put out. This wasn't on the schedule for the morning. But they're so cute, you know, so sweet. How can you stay grumpy with two little ones in the tub? All those bubbles and splashes, soapy clean smells and giggles. When the nine year old decided to join in the fun it just felt perfectly, well... perfect. Two little ones in the tub, warm and shiny, a big one perched in the corner, serenading (guitar practice without threats or shouting, check!) them with his entire play list while they danced and laughed, well, I was just glad to be home, free to enjoy such a lovely unscheduled and unplanned moment.<br />How many of those moments would be missed if we were caught rushing off to our important days elsewhere? How sad would it be if a baby's 6-grain hairdo were enough to start <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">everyone's</span> day off wrong (too rushed, late for school, late for work)? Those moments, simple and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">unstaged</span>, are the ones that fill our family memory-bank, easy and quick to pull out on rainy days and hold on to during troublesome times. And so grateful are we, to be present here, filling our bank with memories we share, gathering moments of grace together.yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-81023012338419116272009-12-22T22:48:00.000-08:002009-12-22T23:03:10.826-08:00OutsmartedThis afternoon, in a mad rush of trying to finish up a sewing project that wasn't working well, nursing the baby, tidying up the family room (and the epic mess of post-fort-deconstruction AND an entire box of party crackers and a block of cream cheese-don't ask), presents to wrap, and a shower still to take:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Me</span> Miles, if you touch that drill (toy) one more time before the family room is tidied up I will take it away for the rest of the day.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Miles</span> Okay, I'm sorry. I won't touch it.<br /><br />Fine. Except that he quietly went upstairs and came back down with ziploc sandwich bags on his hands, and picked up the toy drill and started back to his "work".<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Me</span> Miles, I told you not to play with that drill.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Miles</span> No you didn't Mama. You told me not to touch it. I'm not touching it, see? I'm being really careful. I'm really not touching it one bit.<br /><br />Oh my. He's three. And my head hurts.yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-55394489977021505982009-12-11T13:26:00.001-08:002009-12-11T13:38:56.544-08:00For JenniferBecause I was reprimanded for not keeping up with my blogs over the last month or two, and told in no uncertain terms that people want to know everything, even what we eat breakfast:<br /><br />pumpkin seed cranberry granola, whole milk yogurt(organic), fair trade french roast coffee, whole milk (organic), canned pears (remember our pear canning session?! They're being eaten up like you wouldn't believe!), <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Emergen</span>-C tangerine.<br /><br />Everyone happy now?<br /><br />Seriously, though, everyone is well (knock on wood) and happy (again, the wood....) and I'm elbow deep in cleaning and cooking and baking and preparing and we've got a birthday party and a Swedish supper party, plus a tromp up the mountains to find two trees, a church play for Avery to prepare for, a million gifts to make, lots and lots of good stuff to get to work on. I feel like the whole last month was lost to our weeks of sickness and despair, and now we're all jolly elves on double time!<br /><br />So no worries. No good stories yet, but that's just because we're too busy to get into trouble!yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-13991130996348644972009-12-02T12:58:00.000-08:002009-12-02T13:16:32.953-08:00PiratesMy brother has a big boat that just happens to be in dry dock right now, in our very state, instead of Alaska. So we went to visit him a few weeks ago, before everyone got sick and everything in our house broke (Did I mention the stove broke on Thanksgiving? Did I?!). One of his crew members was there, working, when he arrived- a very sweet girl with tight black jeans, a striped shirt under a sweatshirt, severe black hair, some facial piercings and tattoos. She seemed quiet, nice, and smart, though she was mostly working hard most of the time we were there.<br />ANYWAY...<br />Yesterday Miles came running to me in the midst of the epic boat-fort building game he and Avery were engaged in, wanting, no NEEDING, to know the name of "Uncle Trevor's Pirate".<br />Uncle Trevor's Pirate?<br />Trevor's leg is broken, he was in a cast when we were there, but it didn't seem like a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">peg leg</span>, did it? No one had lost an eye or a hand- no patches or hook-hands were seen. Finally I figured out he meant Shannon! Trevor's girl-crew member. His "Pirate". Of course.<br />Because ships have pirates. Duh.<br />And who else but a pirate would make gold look so fierce?<br />I wonder, should I take my kids out of this <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">poky</span> little town more often? Should they know that pirates aren't the only people with piercings and tattoos? How embarrassing will it be when they go off to college and think their dorm mate is a pirate?yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-8590509155646202462009-11-19T15:00:00.000-08:002009-11-19T15:46:06.911-08:00MilesI've been so lucky to have my wonderful Mom and a talented physical therapist Aunt here helping our family out during this difficult time. I really don't know how we'd have managed without my Mom here, holding fussy sick babies and cleaning up puke, taking temperatures and making chicken soup, exuding confidence that everything would be okay, that Miles would pull through.<br />Miles, you know, is 3 years and 9 months old, full of fire burning bright, the one who jumps headfirst into every experience, and pulls all the rest of us along with him. He is so funny and sincere and beautiful that he gets by with a lot that a more serious, less antic-filled kid wouldn't be able to get away with. Of all my boys he's the one always in the center of the action, making everyone laugh, causing trouble, and smoothing things over with his incredible sweetness and generosity. He is healthy and strong, positively glowing with youthful health and rosy cheeks, sparkling blue eyes and cheerful laugh. Glowing, I tell you.<br />But Miles is the one I always secretly worry about. Always. I imagine it's because of the worry of my pregnancy with him (preterm labor and 4 solid months of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">bedrest</span>) and how sick I was after he was born, at least that's what I tell myself. The other boys, though of course I worry, I feel more confident about, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">healthwise</span>. Miles is the one I am sort of irrational about, the one I really have to talk myself down about. Every bruise might be a sign of some awful thing, leukemia or a clotting disorder. Every cough whispers pneumonia. I know it's crazy. I talk myself out of it all the time, or else we'd be in the emergency room more often than we already are (and Lord knows we're there for legitimate reasons often enough that it's a joke among our friends).<br />So you can imagine how I was feeling this week, with Miles trying to recuperate from an appendectomy and swine flu at the same time, lying in his hospital bed pale and feverish and still, not wanting to eat or drink, not wanting to talk or watch TV or even respond to us. I spent the whole time talking myself down, trying to trust that he would be well. And he is.<br />He is well. He is bouncing off the furniture, climbing the walls, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">shrieking</span> and laughing and running around. You've never even know he'd been sick, except around the edges. That raggedy cough, a low grade fever that hasn't gone away just yet, the quickness to anger, the quickness to tears, the length and restlessness of sleep-times.<br />And so, last night, when my Mom and Aunt were talking about all the phone calls between the extended family, and how worried everyone was, when I asked "Why was Grandma crying?" they were shocked. As though I didn't understand how dangerous this all was, how close we'd been to Miles slipping away from us. And I couldn't correct them. I couldn't bear to just say that I have lived four years with the constant fear of him slipping away, and I am so used to constantly telling myself I am being silly, he is fine, HE IS FINE, that the knowledge that other people, rational, reasonable, intelligent people were as worried as I was more than I could deal with.<br />But he is fine. He is funny and sweet and energetic and you wouldn't know he'd been so sick. And I feel no choice but to keep on reminding myself of how fine he is.<br />He is not slipping away anywhere. He is jumping off the couch over a giant pile of cushions and onto the coffee table. He is running away and laughing, and I am so grateful. Running away laughing is as good as in my arms. He's definitely not slipping anywhere.yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-62199926458393732532009-11-18T15:18:00.000-08:002009-11-18T15:48:04.279-08:00... and holding... againYep. Holding my breath again, just waiting for this week to end.<br />Thursday Miles developed appendicitis, Friday was spent at the pediatrician's office (first thing in the morning) and the emergency room (the rest of the day). Who knew the health insurance companies require <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">preapproval</span> for CT scans, unless it's an emergency room doc? Yep. So, ER, then surgery. Is anything more heart rending than a three year old being rolled away to the operating room screaming and holding his arms out to you? (If there is, don't tell me, please!) My Mom arrived just after the surgery, and thank goodness- having three adults meant someone could stay with miles, another could stay with Avery and Ansel, and the third could do errands and travel back and forth.<br />Saturday started with Miles spiking a fever and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">developing</span> a cough, and getting sicker and sicker. Guess what? Swine flu, that's what. And we all got it.<br />The pediatrician at the hospital prescribed <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Tamiflu</span> for us all, which definitely seems to help shorten and lighten the impact. But it wasn't the nicest way to learn that we have an entirely separate $600 deductible for name brand prescriptions, and that for the four of us (plus the last three days dosage for Miles) would cost us $412. Cash.<br />Some dear friends turned their house over to us and the convenience of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">having</span> a crash pad directly across the street from the hospital was a blessing. Especially since the hospital has a ban on visitors under 14, which meant that the nursing baby couldn't come in to the hospital, and I had to leave Miles' bedside to take care of the other boys.<br />Back at home Miles has asserted his anger at the pace of his recovery in many dramatic and awful ways, shouting and throwing and generally acting out. Including kicking the computer off the couch and killing it. We just got word from the shop. Dead. With the whole entire year's worth of school lesson plans painstakingly written out but not backed up. When will I remember to do that?<br />I won't even mention the pipe under the sink bursting and making a big mess everywhere.<br />Or the baby's ear infection.<br />Anyway, I'm glad I took that good long breath last week. I needed it more than I knew.<br />This week seems to be all about holding it again. Holding and hoping.... please, God, let nothing else go wrong, at least not this week....yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-35175030216415881862009-11-05T08:26:00.000-08:002009-11-05T12:04:23.211-08:00A Good Deep BreathAh! Doesn't that feel nice?<br /><br />I realized, in the midst of messy house, screaming children, unfinished school work, yet-again-still-at-work-way-too-late-husband, utter exhaustion and unbidden tears streaming down my face at a simple question ("How are you?") that I've been holding my breath through all the busy-<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">ness</span>, celebration, and even the simple routines of autumn. I've missed out on really being present for my favorite season, my grounding and hearth-warming season. I have been holding my breathe so long and tight that I've started floating away, my head in the clouds, busier imagining all the brighter futures we could have instead of doing my work, making THIS life, here and now, as bright and beautiful as possible. Unfortunately children and housework, school work and all of the day-to-day couldn't join me on my dream-tour, and had to make do here on earth without me.<br /><br />I've been holding my breath for fear of crying out loud at the terrible prospect of MORE job losses, ones that could directly affect our little family, ones tied to the whim of voters. Holding my breath for fear of saying out loud all the ways I've been worried. One person in the family being stressed out is enough, and worry is my husband's job. My job is eternal optimism, unshakable confidence that it will all work out just right, no matter what IT is. Anxious weather watching, sunny-day umbrella carrying, that's his job. Silver lining shining, pot of gold finding, that's mine.<br /><br />But election day is over, the voting is done, all those opinions have been counted. The sales tax that pays 1/3 of the office budget passed, overwhelmingly. Overwhelmingly! Jobs are a little safer, for awhile anyway. Mortgages can be paid, groceries bought, Christmas and oh! all those birthdays maybe not so bleak. I can breathe.<br /><br />I can take a deep breath, let it go, take another, and come back down to earth. Back down to the house full of boys and chores and laundry. Landing on a mountain of laundry, it turns out, is a pretty soft landing after all, and is a great vantage point for scoping out rainbows' end. And silver linings are a lot easier to see when the storm clouds are just passing over, not dumping down on your head.<br /><br />I can take another breath, an even deeper one, one full of gratitude and thanksgiving. Here I am, here we are, and it is wonderful, right here and now!yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-18989273063298136352009-11-01T07:10:00.000-08:002009-11-01T07:37:54.024-08:00Halloween 2009<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7-QnokgefENGcjMwxoqTPfNYpHLhxmFs6yKqw0Th2N80btuLFlFdlkR53Bujp7_XaTmfzqDsl1-dWShWscGrPfulj0XUBtsLGKs0904rW4IiZPZHOd3k4rr5T7P03P4CXZp5Yj2oTPYG5/s1600-h/DSCF1944.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 250px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399156097837988706" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7-QnokgefENGcjMwxoqTPfNYpHLhxmFs6yKqw0Th2N80btuLFlFdlkR53Bujp7_XaTmfzqDsl1-dWShWscGrPfulj0XUBtsLGKs0904rW4IiZPZHOd3k4rr5T7P03P4CXZp5Yj2oTPYG5/s400/DSCF1944.JPG" /></a> Avery as "Teen Vampire". Scary was his top priority this year.</div><div align="center"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyld-V4HCBnYVoBOI7old4poFpdFKLPRrsSKpAm60YZwkcQhYBm5GSMdkhQ1Z_EPq8KAp0RGbes83CYOk2glWn1Eb8GDm0r3NFZTe63jk4zBGOceD6LnYA2Te_14VPrOBNvsXKbQcJkpLU/s1600-h/DSCF1942.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 328px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399156087426403490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyld-V4HCBnYVoBOI7old4poFpdFKLPRrsSKpAm60YZwkcQhYBm5GSMdkhQ1Z_EPq8KAp0RGbes83CYOk2glWn1Eb8GDm0r3NFZTe63jk4zBGOceD6LnYA2Te_14VPrOBNvsXKbQcJkpLU/s400/DSCF1942.JPG" /></a>Miles as "Spider". Miles was adamant about his costume choice- every single time he decided!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiib0HTi14d4gnrwiisI1Jen_A3qPdaSa2rkMatUymCGm4I-XmyfeVqxtj8RrSI_YOcUZLv76QoKCYiGwMPqvvvx_9q4OnsTetSRhm_Ef-HAkiVwde79eVscEW70WfSSOckYckZV3PMPXMg/s1600-h/DSCF1948.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 362px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399156084329539138" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiib0HTi14d4gnrwiisI1Jen_A3qPdaSa2rkMatUymCGm4I-XmyfeVqxtj8RrSI_YOcUZLv76QoKCYiGwMPqvvvx_9q4OnsTetSRhm_Ef-HAkiVwde79eVscEW70WfSSOckYckZV3PMPXMg/s400/DSCF1948.JPG" /></a> Ansel as "Gnome". He wasn't very excited about his costume for some reason....</div><div> </div><div>In any case we had a great time, some good friends and family came over for pizza and trick or treating and it was all just good, easy fun. big boys running from house to house, little kids trailing, everyone falling to a deep sugar-coma sleep and waking up WAY to early this morning. Yay for Halloween!<br /><br /><br /><div></div></div><br /></div>yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-73617644999749849522009-10-29T14:44:00.001-07:002009-10-29T14:53:12.687-07:00Sneak Peek<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjm4z4nDt4Dk8sogzKtQYTGc5zKRbeL8qrTBMoeEb6kuxsUyrDyjkunTyh1JGVpkrXhOuw8BE-CMsOjuny-7eDlN_TunLTi2FdpCQ9dYuYBr_7yb5aZRirqfbkGBrw8-JfSkaorSkaas-y/s1600-h/DSCF1935.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398141495680795554" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjm4z4nDt4Dk8sogzKtQYTGc5zKRbeL8qrTBMoeEb6kuxsUyrDyjkunTyh1JGVpkrXhOuw8BE-CMsOjuny-7eDlN_TunLTi2FdpCQ9dYuYBr_7yb5aZRirqfbkGBrw8-JfSkaorSkaas-y/s400/DSCF1935.JPG" /></a> Yep. Ansel is going to be a gnome for Halloween. Ridiculous! You just have to wait for the rest of the pictures, though- and not just because I'm madly working at them while trying to pack for an out of state birthday party quick trip and clean the house for out trick-or-treating party scheduled to commence right bout the time we get home....<br />And it's been raining and the drier is still broken, and we haven't carved our pumpkins yet....<br />But, oh! my house is full of cute little gnomes, so I'm as happy as can be!yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-20134508571629363432009-10-29T13:06:00.000-07:002009-10-29T13:30:09.163-07:00Pumpkin PatchThe Grandparents from Iowa usually visit at just the right time to go to our favorite pumpkin patch- Thompson's Farm in Naches, WA. The farmer is a funny guy, and he seems to spend his spare time fixing up old tractors, collecting farm implements, and building pumpkin cannons. Awesome! All our favorite things in one spot! It doesn't hurt that he always has someone making and selling pumpkin donuts right there. Grandpa ate 2 1/2 dozen before he tackled the 4 dozen he bought to go! The boys were in awe. And have stated their desire to be grownups so that I can't stop them from eating 30 donuts in one afternoon. Moms are so mean like that.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKgwQss3lsxDEgxpn5z7cSMQYhHqkuFAQ_L14aFsKiKeUAVqN1KKR0EWBdDejr4YY0ZtZkE9J3g11L7jPZ9-Ek_X1kLgJzZLjvf4mXSxJ-MRdJ4VhRwy6HIBWa6eql0Xr6wL_MfxVmW8DB/s1600-h/DSCF1906.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398119324917734706" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKgwQss3lsxDEgxpn5z7cSMQYhHqkuFAQ_L14aFsKiKeUAVqN1KKR0EWBdDejr4YY0ZtZkE9J3g11L7jPZ9-Ek_X1kLgJzZLjvf4mXSxJ-MRdJ4VhRwy6HIBWa6eql0Xr6wL_MfxVmW8DB/s400/DSCF1906.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcS_49ChhOgvx_COPxQ7T3W9cK5zmSkKOoeCHmVcBtYdb31k9fs2zmluHks_03ZoTpr9pvlC39GKRtgVfkYAuVIshlmnQZwCmzTz8qeuSWTrHcKEJvl3Szk_tV_5ZRCbTI-MVBhO_O1_fH/s1600-h/DSCF1909.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398119319519425394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcS_49ChhOgvx_COPxQ7T3W9cK5zmSkKOoeCHmVcBtYdb31k9fs2zmluHks_03ZoTpr9pvlC39GKRtgVfkYAuVIshlmnQZwCmzTz8qeuSWTrHcKEJvl3Szk_tV_5ZRCbTI-MVBhO_O1_fH/s400/DSCF1909.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-kNwR-TUExRkFXPLTBuUzzijb_Wyn1dLZP61_m7kzm0gNLPxKNsXyKsTAaJ2qGeF0jzo7Fm0xfaOZUHf2G2ehpvAD_NjqsL0eZk0jMM7jFUSCtyk8Ngx-TorTjteFZfx3Iot2pHyYwvss/s1600-h/DSCF1916.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398119315820738354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-kNwR-TUExRkFXPLTBuUzzijb_Wyn1dLZP61_m7kzm0gNLPxKNsXyKsTAaJ2qGeF0jzo7Fm0xfaOZUHf2G2ehpvAD_NjqsL0eZk0jMM7jFUSCtyk8Ngx-TorTjteFZfx3Iot2pHyYwvss/s400/DSCF1916.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div>yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-85974317596559764512009-10-21T07:03:00.000-07:002009-10-21T07:13:35.801-07:00Did You Know?111 pounds of grapes dries down to 4 gallons of raisins?<br />It takes about 30 minutes to pick that many grapes, and almost 3 days to dry each batch.<br />Black Manukka grapes make the world's best raisins.yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036373421509580409.post-59273661959613662362009-10-19T12:46:00.000-07:002009-10-19T13:32:15.862-07:00Not New FurnitureThe Iowa Grandparents are visiting right now- here with time for <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">punkin</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">chunkin</span>, costume making, fall decorating and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Halloween</span> preparations. And in the spirit of preparing the house for their visit we recovered the dining room bench (which was tweed plaid with a giant rip so the boys could easily stick spaghetti fingers in and pull off bits of foam, you know, for fun) and the chairs (which were blue and purple chevron from 1942, probably, and, well, at least 50 years of stains). It was time.<br />And Joann was having a sale- I got two yards of decorator fabric for $12, instead of the $60 they were marked. And as much as I don't like Joann (for their ads, mostly- there are those emails nearly every day, and then the fliers that come way before the sale starts so I think I'm going to get that thing I want for 40% off until I get all the way to the register, past the aisle of candy, with three crying, fussy, antsy children- it's lame. Costco does the same thing.) it is practically next door, and there are always cute fabrics. And good deals. <br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDNtQkZa5XFq3dW3hrjuDiHNNEQCBAK6ImXc-yrLvbO177a3ENA0FD56XFfUBEyA6gmsCD3CEygX8cUmZ7uhuQRbfyBF4RnQAh8jgYprlUpd8w38jfkBmpPtqlBlBiuRTWGm9sQV6GecGI/s1600-h/DSCF1895.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 246px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394402389566022738" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDNtQkZa5XFq3dW3hrjuDiHNNEQCBAK6ImXc-yrLvbO177a3ENA0FD56XFfUBEyA6gmsCD3CEygX8cUmZ7uhuQRbfyBF4RnQAh8jgYprlUpd8w38jfkBmpPtqlBlBiuRTWGm9sQV6GecGI/s400/DSCF1895.JPG" /></a> The bench.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgRAxRI6sps8WpS4i43kyIQ4L_DaDaXrhgLAU6itJIed8EBQgWrzC251LIpHy8qZ3Fa9uTK0nqo5w47OJKrfz9WNzng5QM4phgY2_LHJ4MONNH1XPZ4u-YI0WgrC4ZNhcJWxrNo6RJ29LO/s1600-h/DSCF1897.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394402378036757970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgRAxRI6sps8WpS4i43kyIQ4L_DaDaXrhgLAU6itJIed8EBQgWrzC251LIpHy8qZ3Fa9uTK0nqo5w47OJKrfz9WNzng5QM4phgY2_LHJ4MONNH1XPZ4u-YI0WgrC4ZNhcJWxrNo6RJ29LO/s400/DSCF1897.JPG" /></a>The top of the bench. Take a good look- by the time you see it in person it will indubitably be covered in spaghetti smears.</p><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEmfk506eY6HXyhef71DIsi6mgswN6Htv6iyQvQ6oC4lURj3EYcj6x6HINy_AGlaP5qqkw0g-i4BahpEdLpElDzHkHdqjM4WA8RO9DZSUfos_d3SjlxvGHDvyqsXjmP7rZ06DDF2aAI-cg/s1600-h/DSCF1898.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 386px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394402369368927986" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEmfk506eY6HXyhef71DIsi6mgswN6Htv6iyQvQ6oC4lURj3EYcj6x6HINy_AGlaP5qqkw0g-i4BahpEdLpElDzHkHdqjM4WA8RO9DZSUfos_d3SjlxvGHDvyqsXjmP7rZ06DDF2aAI-cg/s400/DSCF1898.JPG" /></a> The fabric for the chairs.</p><p align="center"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm_OsGHetuJuKxwE-xOB2TMPzwQYGFTJU9zaI0TGJnF12pRK5NjMJVOmuzzAYBKG_LazBSIh-c_3S-icRR7teXD8c9K4y2f9H8zD_v0IUtqgF4N5liBapIDIZVpkqSZ9eF0N5gepOxsVXl/s1600-h/DSCF1899.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 216px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394402356272474770" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm_OsGHetuJuKxwE-xOB2TMPzwQYGFTJU9zaI0TGJnF12pRK5NjMJVOmuzzAYBKG_LazBSIh-c_3S-icRR7teXD8c9K4y2f9H8zD_v0IUtqgF4N5liBapIDIZVpkqSZ9eF0N5gepOxsVXl/s400/DSCF1899.JPG" /></a> And one of the chairs, finished!</p><p align="left">Not quite the new dining room furniture I really want- 52"diameter round Mission or Shaker style pedestal table with leaves, simple little smooth (no grooves for goo to get stuck in) wooden chairs- but way cheaper and less hassle. </p>yalisha casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08037484072364661648noreply@blogger.com5