The Fairy Files

After deleting the fairy diary, I discovered that I could start a new blog dedicated just to that story as long as I keep up with Miss Ingu and Mr. Beachy to keep the peace here. That might be hard because I've been so scattered lately. Besides feeling very ADHD, I am revisiting the questions that come along in the teenage years. For example, I have just too many things going at once; yet I can't just do one thing at a time. Right now I have several sewing projects going - a baby quilt, a pillow cover, plus a pair of blue jeans and a sweat shirt to mend. I'm working on a family tree and a painting for a friend. And my kitchen table is full of Christmas cards to answer. There's also nursing CEUs to complete and a ballot to fill out for voting. Not to mention the LEGO galactic bases to be made and battles to be fought and a new little wee person to hold......The questions are those age old ones of what is important, what to do with my life, and how much is important and what is just straw. They are the kind of questions that you have to be very quiet and very still to answer.

In Which Miss Ingu is Served Breakfast In Bed

The sun returned today and everyone's mood is much improved! In fact, I was surprised today when Mr. Beachy brought me breakfast in bed.

Coffee had been made and a sweet fruit and cheese plate delivered to my bedside. Yum-m-m! The cheese brought back good memories and it was a special gift because I'm sure Mr. Beachy doesn't even like cheese. I don't know anyone besides myself who likes this kind of cheese. Perhaps he's making up for the past week's silent treatment.

The cheese was Ektegjetost from Norway. It's a sweet brown cheese that taste almost like carmelized sweetened condensed milk. You put a sliver in your mouth and let it melt. When our first child was born everyone we knew was church mouse poor. Our baby was just a day or two old when a friend of ours, named Richard Birnbaum, showed up with a gift of this cheese. I knew that he probably spent all the extra money he had for it. It was like a gift from a magi.

Richard was a tall, thin graduate student from Columbia who had dark curly hair and a scraggly beard. He was very shy and soft spoken. He wouldn't sit down, just wanted to stop by for a moment, but we made him hold the baby and share some of the cheese. He must have been her first visitor. And she was most certainly the first baby he'd ever held! I heard later that he had become a legal advocate for immigrants.

Mr. Beachy had also prepared a mango cut in half with the seed removed. He filled it with my favorite plain Greek yogurt and chopped almonds. A meal fit for the gods!

It's just - we're grumpy.

Faithful readers will notice that the recent Fairy Garden entries have been deleted. This is due to honesty issues. Mr. Beachy had been holed up in his room for several days and I finally approached him to ask what was the matter. He...was...grumpy. He explained ever so curmudgeonly that this blog was supposed to be OURS. Not some silly fairy tale. And I considered his comments and especially his grumpy way of showing his feelings, and admitted to him that he was right. After promising him that I would delete said entries, I heard him outside in the garden. Chilly and damp as it was, I could hear him whistling and I know all will be better for it.

First Day of 2010

Mr. Beachy woke up grumpy again this AM despite sleeping through the fireworks last night. Couldn't remember the password for this blog. So much happened in 2009 that it's impossible to recount it all. This picture of Emmett, the chameleon(whose name used to be Scout, but was changed to Emmett because of his sad clown smile), just goes to show how much has changed. He is now 6 inches long minus the tail, which could be another 6 if it's uncurled. That's a lot of crickets consumed! Harper has grown. Impossible to realize he'll be 6 yrs. old in another few weeks! And, it took all year, but now we have a new member of the family. His name was secret for so long that I almost forget he has one. It's Gus! And Gus it is! The brothers are already conspiring together - Gus uses the Force while Harper maneuvers the Wii Jedi characters. All is well and as it should be as this new year begins Happy New Year!