http://www.kathrynpetroharper.com/mindfullife express : discover : renew : create Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:02:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the family photographer, very few photos get taken of me, especially me and Claire. When my mother-in-law visited around the new year, she took a bunch of photos. (She is an avid photographer and quite good!) I asked her to send some of the images so that I could ... http://www.kathrynpetroharper.com/mindfullife/2009/07/02/i-love-her/ Below is the New Yorker cover for June 29, 2009. Claire looked at it tonight, and this is what she said (note: she is still confused on gender pronouns): "Man scared. Man can't see, looking. He klunked. Yes, he's looking, he klunked." Klunked is Claire's term for falling over. I can ... http://www.kathrynpetroharper.com/mindfullife/2009/07/01/observations/ This is how I spent my "me time" today -- at the library, drawing the books I selected to read. (I've already begun Northanger Abbey.) It felt really good to draw. It's prosaic subject matter, but this is my life. http://www.kathrynpetroharper.com/mindfullife/2009/07/01/while-i-was-out/ I'm so happy to have my little girl healthy again. Husband took the video below this evening. He introduced her to Dave Brubeck, because she really like the jazz songs on her Music Together CDs. If the video doesn't play, click this link to see the movie. ... http://www.kathrynpetroharper.com/mindfullife/2009/06/29/budding-jazz-aficionado/ With the forecast today predicting that it will hit between 101 and 107 here, and given that we live in a house with no air conditioning, life will move at a snail's pace around here today. Claire's fever finally broke on Friday (until then it was pretty high, around 103.4). We ... http://www.kathrynpetroharper.com/mindfullife/2009/06/28/the-pace-of-things/ For my birthday, I'm getting a sewing machine! Does anybody have recommendations of books for beginners? My last encounter with machine sewing was in 7th grade, when I managed to sew through my thumb with the machine and couldn't figure out patterns. I think I failed that unit; I certainly ... http://www.kathrynpetroharper.com/mindfullife/2009/06/23/sew-ready/ Poor sweet Claire is ill. We thought it was teething at first, because she said her teeth hurt and her mouth hurt on Saturday. Yesterday I saw very faint red spots on her legs during bath, and a small little pimple-like bump in the corner of her mouth. Today she ... http://www.kathrynpetroharper.com/mindfullife/2009/06/22/no-fun/ OMG, I haven't got my child enrolled for preschool this fall! Nearly every other mother I know whose child is about to turn two has taken care of this. I haven't since I thought we'd be moving and wanted to see where we'd be before I pursued this. Oh no. ... http://www.kathrynpetroharper.com/mindfullife/2009/06/19/the-early-bird/ She spins in circles and says, "I'm getting busy!!" and laughs when she falls down. She adds plural ending to words that are already plural: gloveses, shoeses, kidses. She adds "ed" to verbs in current tense to make them past-tense: "It breaked," "I eated." She sits in her wading pool, looks up at ... http://www.kathrynpetroharper.com/mindfullife/2009/06/18/the-language-instinct/ From this (playing in her pool and having pensive moment)... ...to this (silly with stickers). http://www.kathrynpetroharper.com/mindfullife/2009/06/16/in-one-day/