ease on the horizon

One week from today, many things will be much simpler.

I was able to indulge in a lot of gardening* and housekeeping, which was a comfort on its own but also helped me get a jump on preparing for company this coming weekend. I won't clean the stove or anything, but it sets me up to enjoy graduation festivities a little more if things are Mostly Clean. Between now and Saturday, I think just daily chores and a quick mowing of the lawn will do.

Final soccer games are completed and final band/vocal concerts will be done over the next few nights. Now I need to square my shoulders to prepping for the After-Graduation Gathering we'll have at the house. We're serving "tiny food" -- little quiches and other assorted niblets. There are enough folks coming who are diabetic (Dad) or paleo that I feel I need some ideas for options. Suggestions? Having choices for everyone is important, yo.

Not going to get real fancy, but I might put up a few decorations or (merciful heavens) BALLOONS. ( Have to make a PLAN. )

in which the movies build family vocabulary

Family took me to see The Avengers on Saturday night, by which I mean I said "Hey, I want to see The Avengers, so you guys are going to take me. We'll call it my Mother's Day present, okay?"

Anyway. I still have no words for how much I loved that movie. What I can say is that the family vocabulary has been enriched by the experience.Fer instance, we now tell each other to "Banner down." It's a call to seek out one's inner Bruce Banner, to calm the heck down and quit hulkin' out, yo.

"Banner down, man, it's no big deal."