2009 Brooklyn learning to ride her bike

This was a rare opportunity when Chris had some time off from school. Now that he's done we hope to have many more moments like this in the fall...all be it without the body armour... ; )

Anonymous

I never wanted to write a book, I mean I like the imaginary scenario of writing a book that is acclaimed by someone, but the reality of it is I never think anything I write is that good, that worth subjecting others too, heck I hardley ever like what I write a day, month or year after I've written it. I also love run on sentences....I write how I think and that means that many thoughts are strung together with ananlysis and disclaimers and multifaceted thinking built in. If multifaceted means looking at it from more than one angle...or at least seeming too. So when I started this post it was to do more than meandor on meaninglessly....I did have a point, and oh yeah, my thought was regarding this organic kick. You know, the more I think about it the less it makes sense. I'm sure it needs more research by me, as obviously manufacturing butt loads of toxic chemicals and releasing them into the environs without another thought is not good, but these chemicals are naturally occurring if only in smaller amounts, so is it the chemical itself that is bad...obviously it was manufactured for some purpose so no, but the way it was disregarded after the fact that was unfortunate. Is there really something that is invented, never before to have existed, or is it just figuring out how to make or derive a chemical that previously we could only retrieve by extracting the juices of some plant. What is really meant by synthetic and organic? Is "synthetic" water just not as good as the natural kind, does the fact that two hydrogens and an oxygen are combined in a factory versus in the atmosphere make it less water? Is organic good only because ingesting large amounts of effective chemicals are toxic whereas minimal exposure that would occur in nature is less so? I.E. we find plant extracts that kill bugs and spray them all over our food but it uses up too much land, clean water etc to grow all the source plants, harvest them and extract the chemical so our scientists in labs work out how to make it in reverse leaving possibly other harmful byproducts behind as well as the desired mix. This is a thought I would like to explore further...later. And other social stigmas that don't make sense to me....

May 20th 2009 27+ months old: Joren

Little Man. He is such a joy and sooo cute. I worry some about giving him his meds, it's one of those things where the less you read the better because the more I look up the scarier this all is. But he is doing great. He'll have his second dose of oral Methotrexate today when he has his nightly mercaptopurine. I feel like every day is a blessing that he's not sick yet and can stay home. He is so happy and full of life, fun and energy. We couldn't be luckier. I love that he's got this second lease on life, thank heavens : ) 

He has acute lymphoblastic leukemia type pre-B, we are so lucky, because we've got the most manageable type there is, and he couldn't know any different. Life is all a big bike ride to him, he loves taking adventure (and danger!) to the next level. He, like Brooklyn, brings us so many smiles.

To my friend Bobbie in Australia:

I love you guys & I love your blog (both of them!)! How you do it is amazing, ya'll do so much stuff at home.: ) Wow I miss you! : ( We are good, sorry haven't written, I'm so disorganized, always running around like a chicken with my head cut off, OK bad visual! Took my written driving test today and have my practical on Tues, feel like I'm 15 again. The sad part is that 1/2 of it (a video computer section) is impossible! But that's Ok scored high enough to pass (100% on the multiple choice but 56 out of 75 on the latter, yeah so 13 years driving in 3 countries on two sides of the road, phew, glad it worked out, I probably need more practice before Tues as I have to show how you check all the fluid levels and I haven't done this in years (thanks to cheap oil and lube services in US)! Chris left today till May 5. Maybe I'll actually get some of my pics and videos of the kids put up so you guys can see. Can't wait to see you. I told Chris last night the best anniversary present ever (probably in like 10 years) would be a surprise trip back to AU so I could see you for like a week, then we could all go to dinner on Eagle St Pier, Spend a Sat at the beach and then he could take me to Sydney or back to Melbourne : ) ahh, what a dream!

tran·sient  

Pronunciation:

\-sh(ē-)ənt, -zē-ənt, -sē-; -zhənt, -jənt\

Function:

adjective

Etymology:

Latin transeunt-, transiens, present participle of transire to cross, pass by, from trans- + ire to go — more at issue

Date:

1599

1 a: passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory <transient beauty> b: passing through or by a place with only a brief stay or sojourn <transient visitors>2: affecting something or producing results beyond itself
Sort of what I expect this blog to be! We are more of a traveling family but that is a given! ; P