tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72385844162156894692024-02-19T08:06:12.622-07:00clove's cornerOne rocky mountain mama's head of garlic. The cloves: loving a child, raising a high-altitude vegetable garden, growing with a husband, loving an epileptic dog, knitting without patterns, sewing without guides, cooking without recipes, getting OUT and other insights gathered from the land and those of us who love it.cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.comBlogger228125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-76859089329218821582018-04-09T09:13:00.004-06:002018-04-09T09:13:49.458-06:002 Years later....Hi y'all! Anyone still out there? I miss doing this blog, but I don't miss the time-suck that it was. I DO miss the writing, terribly so. But this will be short and sweet and full of pictures because that's what I promised my mom. Plus, I wanted to post here (instead of, say, emailing her the photos) just to see if this blog still works. Hurray! <br />
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So, Mom, here's the skinny: the Missoula Children's Theater came to town on Monday, they auditioned and did casting that night, rehearsed all week, and performed Friday night. So, these kids (K-12) did a play in 4 days. The play was Robin Hood; Little H was cast as a Skunk, and J-bug cast as a "Forester": people who live with the trees and shrubbery. (One friend of ours thought they may have done some type-casting with that one.) June-bug had her first solo-line in a play. And even Little H got to do her favorite things on stage: make "skunk" hands and shake her booty. Win-win. <br />
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These photos are from performance day: when they got to see and wear their costumes for the first time, dress rehearsal, and the final performance, complete with stage make up, then on-stage photo ops, and dads waiting with their flowers. We were some of the last people to leave, but it had been a fully packed auditorium. <br />
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It is beyond wonderful to be back in a community where, 1) these activities are available, and 2) we are not the only ones in the audience supporting our children! Now, we are surrounded by friends and our own community members. Amazing. I am sometimes still in culture shock over having a community again. Moving back to Pinedale has far exceeded our expectations. <br />
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^I thought the older kids had told her to give me the bird (a gesture she is not yet familiar with). But it turns out, she had popped the knuckles of her middle finger and was showing me her accomplishment. <br />
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(Whew. Okay, that was a formatting nightmare. It took over an hour to upload all those photos! And they look fuzzy, which they shouldn't. And then blogger wouldn't always let me type words in-between, so I couldn't even caption all the images. Sorry. I will reserve this blog space for mostly writing and keep my photos on Instagram. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gretchenyost/">https://www.instagram.com/gretchenyost/</a> Much love to you all!) ~Gretchen<br />
<br />cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-605449137528276472016-03-23T23:22:00.000-06:002016-03-23T23:22:10.793-06:00Some Changes here at Clove's Corner...Hey y'all! Not that I've posted in months, or anything, but I am about to make a big change that I want you to be aware of. I am going to change the privacy settings on this blog so that it will no longer be available to the public. Pretty sure I know, or "know" all of you who read this, so if you want to continue receiving my posts, I think I have to "approve" you, or something. (I don't know because I haven't done it yet!) So anyway...we'll find out! I'll wait until this post has been sent to the e-mail subscribers before changing the settings. Just want you to be aware! <br />
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In the meantime, we are doing well in these here parts. I am busy, homeschooling, diving into photography and considering opening a business (this is related to the coming change). I am ready to welcome spring and am already planning lots of outdoor adventures. <br />
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Hazel is a defiant and adorable 4, Juniper is a wonderful, wild 6 and about to lose a front tooth! <br />
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I have been doing a "365" photography project which I post on Instagram, and I love it. Lots of growth happening there. <br />
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I am, in general, busy tying up loose ends of my life as my children wean out of toddlerhood and become full-fledged (and super fun) kids! We look forward to more travel, more adventures, more real and thoughtful conversations to share with our kids about our amazing world. And I look forward to sharing more of our journey with you!<br />
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Cheers and thanks for reading! Leaving you with some photos from today's "adventure hike". Sorry about the quality...still haven't figured out why google blogger's image quality is so low.... <br />
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cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-17836324246278579592016-01-01T20:52:00.001-07:002016-01-02T18:32:37.333-07:002015 at a glanceMy friend <a href="http://www.hbadventure.com/?p=15405">Hannah</a> recently posted 12 photos from 2015 on her blog. I thought that was a great idea since I've barely posted here at all this year. I went at it aiming for certain photos, images that immediately came to mind when I thought of a particular month; something that captured a special moment, or memory, or feeling. I learned 3 things by doing this: 1) a lot of life happens in a given month. 2) I capture a lot of that life (though not all...never all...). 3) It's really hard to narrow that down to <i>one</i> per month. <br />
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So I came up with 24, plus a bonus. (P.S. Don't look <i>too</i> closely, I think I resized these just a little too small for a blog...I am still learning my new photo program and I'm not going to take the time to do it all over again, sorry!) <br />
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January. Six weeks after adopting <a href="http://clovescorner.blogspot.com/2015/01/balance-and-peace.html">Ladybug. </a><br />
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February. We had a crazy warm winter, followed by an early spring. Even though thick blankets of snow still covered most everything, we went for an early trip down to the river, fishing, inspecting deer skulls and looking at their teeth. It was in this moment, that we realized how awesome homeschooling could be.<br />
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March. Back in November, I had asked my husband to get a daily picture of me with the kids, interpreting that however he wanted (usually my face is in the image, but sometimes not). He would not call himself a photographer, but this is one of my favorites of his images: the kids always snuggle with me, wrapped in their towels, after a bath. <br />
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April. I started taking the kids for hikes early and often. This is us. <br />
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April. We also took a huge, massive <a href="http://clovescorner.blogspot.com/2015/05/sorry-guys.html">trip to Maui, Hawaii</a>. We met several relatives there, but my mom was there with us the whole time. I was so proud of her, for wanting to make memories <i>together. </i>I love this image of my mom and Hazel playing in the sand. (Juniper was there too, but ran off before I could catch her.) <br />
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May. The kids had hatched-out <a href="http://clovescorner.blogspot.com/2015/06/in-photos-last-few-days.html">chicks</a> in an incubator at their preschool and we took home 3 (then bought 2 more at the feed store). Juniper is a chicken-whisperer. She will not hesitate to tell you how much she loves animals. Her love of creatures makes my heart swell. <br />
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June. I don't have them in a lot of photos, but my in-laws came out and we did bunches of fishing, kicking off our summer of camping, fishing, floating, hiking and fun.<br />
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July. We did so much camping. Wyoming is truly a spectacular place. <br />
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August. For the first time since Juniper was 5 months old, I drove the kids out to Oregon on my own. It was shockingly fun! The "Magic Tree House" audio book series kept the kids more than occupied in the car. We landed at my mom's house and this moment, right here, is what I will remember most. As a kid, my mom <i>loved</i> dolls. We had given the kids some of my old "Fischer Price Friends" dolls that my mom had made so many outfits for. The loved it! In turn, my mom got out her old Tony doll. It was her favorite, she even remembers exactly what she wrote in her letter to Santa and her mother, <i>my</i> grandma, had made beautiful, detailed outfits for her Tony doll over the years. She brought them out, and for the first time in forty years, she tried all the outfits on as the kids kept asking for more. It was beautiful. <br />
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After my mom's house, we met my dad and step-mom north of Portland where they treated us to a couple of days at Great Wolf Lodge swim park extravaganza. I didn't get many photos (since we were swimming most of the time), but this--of Juniper and my dad--is what comes to mind. Captured in front of the giant fireplace in the lobby. <br />
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September. This sentinel of a mountain behind our home is always spectacular. But early falls bring the best of every season. Green in the aspens, crimson in the maples, snow on the peaks, and a layer of cloud for good measure. <br />
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I don't get a lot of photos of my kids' friends. I tend to put the camera away and focus on conversation during playdates. But I need to do more. Here, is a little gal exactly between Juniper and Hazel in age. We have known her since she was 3 months old and her mother quickly became my first real friend when we moved to this town. They are such an honest, hard-working family. Love them. <br />
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Lastly in September. It's true I try to be a fun, spontaneous mom and I want my kids to experience life to the fullest. That being said, sometimes it also pays to have a photographer for a mom because she will let you play in a mud flat (in the hopes of getting some fun images). In Juniper's words: "Mom! This is the BEST DAY EVER! This is my DREAM COME TRUE! A GIANT MUDDY LAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!" Anyway, they had so much fun I think we'll be back next year. But I think I'll leave the camera in the car and dive in myself!<br />
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October. Our last camping trip of the year included some antelope hunting. This was the first time we have been able to hike the kids in fairly close to the kill site and have them help work up the meat. They were thankful to the antelope, fascinated and helpful. It was their job to take pieces of meat and rinse them in the creek before dropping them into a canvas game bag. I had an antelope tag too, but the herniated disk in my neck was flaring up at the time, leaving me in a semi-crippled state and sporting a neck brace. (Better now, thanks.) <br />
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And probably the most fancied up for Halloween my husband and I have been since...2001? It was a family affair. Juniper was a vampire, my man a vampire-dad, Hazel was a fairy and I was a fairy who'd been bitten by a vampire. Obviously. <br />
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November. I turned 40!!! Need I say more?<br />
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Hazel turned 4. She has always been a little lover, but she is also unbelievably stubborn and defiant. Sometimes she and my man butt heads, but lately they have found their rhythm. I am so proud of my husband for figuring it out. <br />
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A November visit from the cousins. We hadn't seen them in a ridiculously long time; almost a year. <i>Too</i> long. <br />
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December. I made the decision last spring, but in September I started homeschooling Juniper for kindergarten. It has been a wonderful decision. I don't have many photos from our schooling, but this is one, in the middle of a math lesson. <br />
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Our chickens! You haven't seen the whole group in a while, have you? From left to right: Holly, Louise, Ice-Cream Lollipops, Funky, Lacy, Orange Peel, Mama Brahma, Rosy, Abracadabra, and Daisy. <br />
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My mom came for Christmas. She makes cookies while her "helpers" snitch the dough. Isn't that how it always goes? A timeless activity, spanning generations. <br />
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Lastly, for those of you who didn't get one, this is our Christmas/New Year's card: Wishing you peace, happiness, bravery and adventure in 2016! <br />
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I have some big, personal goals for 2016, so I doubt I'll be here much. I wish I had the time to write, but I don't. (However, if inspiration finds me and I can make it here, you bet I will!) In the meantime, Instagram is sooooooo much more time efficient. And lately, I don't have time to include more than a sentence or two to go with a photograph anyway, which is what Instagram is. So if you have a smart phone, you can find me at "clovescorner" there. I will get here when I can. Cheers to you and to 2016! As always, thank you for reading : ) cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-55061888279873751072015-11-04T22:13:00.001-07:002015-11-04T22:13:14.693-07:00Hi! <span style="font-size: large;">Hi! Still here. Busy. Back soon. </span><br />
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(And, wow, if <i>you're</i> here, I'm impressed with your dedication and patience. Love you!) <span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-77320688904146893722015-06-28T00:14:00.004-06:002015-06-28T00:14:50.851-06:00in photos: the last few daysI have loads of favorite photos from *last* summer that I never posted, but anyway. A few favorites from today and the last few days. I may never <i>catch up</i> on this blog, but for now I'll keep at it. I may have time to write again, I may not. Right now, I am experimenting and honing some photography skills and it feels SO good. Beginning with today and going backwards in time:<br />
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:: Like our dog, she plays in the sun-spot. <br />
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Or, like me, she is searching for the light. <br />
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:: Tonight we sat on our property fence and watched an air show. Hazel always has something on her skin; she says it makes her beautiful. Facepaint, tattoo, markers, pb&j...always something. Today, appropriately enough, she had two (smudged) rainbows on each cheek. Love wins. <br />
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:: Picking rhubarb and planting raspberries in the garden.</div>
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:: Playing with the half-grown chicks. (Oh, man, I haven't even posted on playing with the <i>baby</i> chicks!) Juniper is a wild, high-energy kid. But you would never know it, watching her handle the chicks. </div>
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:: Juniper has a super sensitive scalp. She doesn't want a haircut, but doesn't like me messing with her hair much. So this is constant, Juniper holding her hair away from her face. <br />
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When I was a kid I had a soft gray doll named Toofy. It looked like a bunny, but I think it was supposed to be a kangaroo. She had a little pocket on her front, where I would put my fallen baby teeth, and gently place it under my pillow. I have no idea where Toofy came from (my best guess is my grandma made her for me). I loved Toofy. She may still be floating around this world somewhere, in my attic or my mom's. <br />
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The kids and I had talked about making Toofy dolls, but on this morning, we decided to do it. I made a little sketch of what my old Toofy looked like, then Juniper drew her own design and I sewed. <br />
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Just in time. <br />
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She'd been chewing on a strand of yarn. <br />
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Hazel's green eyes of envy. She wants to loose a tooth SO badly. Hazel will have her Toofy doll years before any teeth fall out. <br />
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But Hazel is unselfish and was quick to be happy for her sister. Truly, this little sister is such a caring little lover, she makes my heart melt. <br />
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Juniper, being Juniper, wanted to keep her tooth. We wrote a note to the Tooth Fairy, asking for a pro-rated amount, if she could keep her tooth. Two quarters is what she got. (Although I've heard the going rate in Manhattan is $17 per tooth. The Tooth Fairy prefers Wyoming rates.) A couple of days later, the second bottom tooth came out and now Juniper has a lisp. cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-79128672462684900572015-05-18T22:44:00.000-06:002015-05-18T22:44:29.235-06:00Hawaiian Rollercoaster Ride<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-7364932327819382872015-05-03T00:26:00.000-06:002015-05-03T00:26:28.418-06:00just a glimpseSo...most of you know we spent a couple of glorious weeks in Maui; our first (<i>real? true? expensive?</i>) family vacation. A vacation without any real purpose other than to just <i>be</i>. I've been s l o w l y sifting through photos. Tonight I came across this candid moment, in a botanical garden, in a little thatched shelter, in a rattan chair. (I do believe we were pretending to be Jungle King, Queen and Princesses.) <br />
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A little Hawaiian love on the blog tonight:<br />
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This has been my desktop wallpaper for the last few weeks. It's almost impossible to get a face-on authentic photo of this kid. This image says so much about her right now: her smirky semi-hidden grin, mischievous eyes, thick fingers, and the hair: she's constantly chewing her hair and I'm constantly nagging her about it. On the morning this was taken, she'd been slipping into my bed at night. I was prepared this morning, camera on the bedstead. When Juniper wakes she's like a rooster at dawn: feather's fluffed and ready to start cock-a-doodle-doing. (Except fortunately, she doesn't wake at dawn.) I pulled back a single curtain and told her she couldn't get out of bed until I took some pictures. <br />
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Now, it feels like months since either of my kids has slipped into my bed at night. (Really, it's probably only been a week.) I appreciate the more restful sleep but I miss their little snuggles. Thanks Juniper, for allowing me to capture this moment in time. Will you be sneaking into my bed tonight? cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-51365267858323909422015-02-26T23:42:00.000-07:002015-02-26T23:43:13.207-07:00Dear Hazel: You, right now.Today, you fell dead asleep three times in the middle of the day. You are rosy-cheeked and feverish. Your body has a hard time with colds, it always has. Today was supposed to be a much-needed "day off" for me. Or, at least, a couple of hours in the afternoon. Instead, I got you, hot and snuggled into my lap. I rocked you next to the fire, singing to "Little Liza Jane" and "Goodnight Irene" until the music stopped and you were asleep in my arms. There was the part of me that wanted to work on my projects, feeling my "free" afternoon quickly slip away. But then there was you: your crescent eyelids, your plump apple cheeks, your little chin...nestled into the crook of my arm just so. All I could do was sit and rock you, kiss your forehead, trace your heart-shaped face with the tip of my finger, memorize your elfish ears, nuzzle your wispy hair, place your warm hand in mine. And wondering all the while how many more times in my life will I rock a child, asleep in my arms? How many more? Is this the last?<br />
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Later on, you were upstairs on the futon, I slipped away to bring you some water and came back to find you sleeping, again. Oh, I could eat you up, I love you so. <br />
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:: You are my little snuggler. You are a lover. You squeeze so hard with your hugs, your whole body shakes. If we part from friends without hugs, you will throw your arms in the arm and gasp, "But we forgot hugs and kisses!" And you will run up and deliver the love. Right now, you prefer to give "doggy kisses," (we're used to it but it takes your preschool teachers off-guard). You started preschool last month! You cried the first day and have loved it ever since. You used to run into our room first thing in the morning, crawl into bed next to me and snuggle. Now, you run into our room, crawl into Ladybug's bed and snuggle. (I'll admit: my heart sinks a little when you pass up my bed for hers.) She is not a licky dog, but she licks your face like an ice-cream cone. Nearly always, your face is bearing some scrape or scar. Right now, it's your nose. Yesterday, the sidewalk bit your face when we were running from monsters. It happens. <br />
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You are a mama's girl, one hundred percent. You stopped nursing just a few months shy of your third birthday and not because you wanted to. You have the most beautiful smile, reminding me so often of my mom. You prefer to draw on yourself over drawing on paper. You love to show us your "tricks", preforming yoga and gymnastic moves with straight legs and pointed toes, entirely of your own creation. You are stubborn as a mule with mad negotiation skills. You know how to get your way. We often joke that if we had to guess your future career, you would be a lawyer and a tattooed, coffee-drinking yogini on the side. <br />
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Your tears come often, and fast. It's been this way since you got your first teeth and started walking. You know how to press your sister's buttons. And you love and defend your sister fiercely. Yesterday when you spotted Juniper finishing up her ski lesson, you started stomping up a set of stairs, and in a hoarse undertone timed with each step you said, "Dat's. MY. SISTER! Dat's. MY. SISTER! Dat's. MY. SISTER!" <br />
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You love to dress up. Like, not just <i>play</i> dress up, but dress up all the time. You will choose the boots that are too small over the boots that fit saying, "But deese ones are more beautiful, dat because dey have flowers." The other day, I went to dress you for preschool and you said, "But dat dress isn't elegant. I want an <i>elegant</i> dress, mommy!"<br />
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You don't like any toys, to speak of. If you are playing quietly alone, it's because you are smearing hand lotion all over the bathroom, breaking into the medicine cabinet, drawing on yourself, cutting your own hair, or scattering dog food over the house. At the toy store, you'll choose "Gallatic Ooze" over any toy. You'll play pretend with Juniper almost endlessly. But you love to just do what we're doing. If I were to show you how to turn on the stove, you could single-handedly prepare scrambled eggs and toast for our family. You love to help cook, mix essential oils, feed the dog, work up elk meat, re-load bullets with pops, work the garden with me. </div>
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Over the last year we have come to realize how much you are like me in personality and Juniper is like pops. It's almost creepy. You have a logical, organized mind. You will sit and thread macaroni noodles on a string until you run out of string. You will be a knitter, I am sure. </div>
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You love to snuggle with me by the fire after a bath. You like to try on my glasses (and, not surprisingly, my glasses are right now MIA). You are a quirky little goofball. If we had a third child (we won't), you'd be the stereotypical middle child. Oh, there is so much about you! So much more! (I'll save it for another night.) I love it all. I'll eat you up I love you so! <br />
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Hi! Still here. I've been preoccupied. Parenting, investigating homeschool, visiting the public school, cleaning out, cleaning up, selling crap, toying with the idea of doing photography as a "side" gig. (I really don't have an extra "side," so I'm not yet sure how that will work.) I turn 40 this year (have I mentioned that before?), and I'm looking at a full-frame DSLR camera. My mid-life motorcycle. <br />
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I've been learning to skijor with the dog. I've re-herniated that damned disc in my neck. I've watched too many episodes of "Lost" while folding laundry in the wee hours of the night. One family member or another has been sick (not bad, though) for the entire month of February. I've guiltily enjoyed our creepy spring-like weather, going on "adventure hikes" with the kids on bare frickin dirt (in February!). <br />
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In the photo above: a post-preschool afternoon spent fishing on the river. The kids found some elk bones. You can't see it well, but under her right arm Juniper is holding a maggoty elk skull. My man removed some teeth, which Hazel is investigating. Things like this make me want to homeschool. <br />
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Today: Hazel had emotional breakdowns over somethingorother approximately once every ten minutes. Also, she got naked, drew all over her body with markers and ate a poisonous plant right before bed. It's always funny when it's over. Now, they are tucked snuggly into bed. Juniper is spending her first night in a big bed; Hazel is spending her first night furiously jealous and if she had the words for it, she would declare herself a second-class citizen. It's so hard to bend to both of them at the same time. They play together unbelievably well (they are constantly surprising me at how well), but their individual needs can be so different. I wish Juniper wanted more of me, I wish Hazel didn't need quite so much. <br />
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Signing off for tonight, hope to be back soon. ~ <br />
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<i>^Post-Christmas Elk Refuge sleigh ride (see below). ^ </i><br />
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I wrote this a few days ago, and hadn't found the time and space to complete it and tack on some photos. The last few months have been a whirl of new experiences, new interests, less time, and re-prioritizing. Right now, I have a tasty cup of Aero-press coffee at my side, my man has the day off and both kids are sick--although you wouldn't know it based on energy levels (I'm attributing that to the Thieves oil I put on their feet last night). <br />
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Even though I turned 39 less than two months ago, I can feel the weight of what this year, 2015, brings: my 40th year on this planet. And with that comes a strong urge to get my shit together. To find the balance of health, wealth, organization, creativity, vitality and<i> life</i>, and to do it with my monkeys at my side. <br />
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<i> ^Mid December: Mom and daughter Nutcracker date. I don't know what's up with the basket.^</i><br />
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<i>^Local dancers plus the very same ballet company I grew up with: the Eugene Ballet Company came to our little corner of Wyoming! I was SO happy to have *this* as my kids' first Nutcracker experience.^</i><br />
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I've been noticing what little evidence is left that we once had babies in our home. Crib, changing table, potty chair...it's all gone. Cloth diapers have been relegated to the rag pile (too scrappy to pass on). What little remains of babyhood is all boxed up in the attic, waiting to be passed on in 30 years to some future grandkid, or made into a memory quilt. We have a 3 year old and a 5 year old now. Two ferociously strong personalities circle our home. <br />
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Yesterday both kids were crawling under the Christmas tree, wagging their tails high in the air. Bare, little feet stuck out--those soft, pink, padded toes. I wanted to lock that moment in my brain, to remember <i>this</i>, always. <br />
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I have been tucking notes away on Hazel for the last year and a half. All her little quirks, come and gone and on to the next. (I have a long overdue letter to Hazel coming very, very soon.) <br />
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2014 was the first year I didn't have a kid sharing my bed. Looking back, so much of my focus was trying to get my own projects done; to do some things for ME after four years of dedicating my life to these small humans. I did that, but in my wake I left behind a frantic, disorganized mess. <br />
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I have dedicated 2015 to swinging the pendulum back to center. When I stumbled into 2015, clutching a steaming cup of coffee, friends strewn about the house, we asked each other our resolutions and this was mine: This year, I want to find balance and peace. There are lots of fineries and nuances wrapped into those two words, but for now, that will do.<br />
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^<i>A few days after the Nutcracker, our own little dancer took the stage.^</i><br />
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<i>^How much actual dancing she did is debatable, but her favorite part: "Being on stage!" and the cookies afterwards.^ </i><br />
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I like my holidays to be of the slow, dough-kneeding variety. This year, we were far from it. It was hectic, busy, too fast, not enough. (As of today, I still have a stack of "New Year's" holiday cards to mail.) It was December 15th by the time I got our advent calendar on the wall. I read somewhere that you should take all your holiday traditions and activities and drop them. ALL of them. Then, slowly add the ones that have the most meaning for your family and skip the rest. To some degree we did that (we had to), but I could do some more cutting and pasting. <br />
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We have been so lucky in that family has come to us for Christmas since we've lived in this house. This year was no exception with my in-laws here for Christmas followed immediately by my husband's brother's family and out-of-town friends for New Year's. For you: a shotgun photo montage of our holiday: <br />
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:: We adopted a dog from the shelter. She is 4 1/2 and was found running along the highway with badly infected puncture wounds in her rear end. Turns out, the other dog in her home was attacking her; the owners relinquished her to the shelter. They patched her up and we took her home. Her name is Ladybug (original name was Lady). She is a super sweetheart; she doesn't bat an eye at the kids' crazy antics. She is mellow in the house, but is tightly wound with energy the second she gets outside. She is loyal to us, but will bolt if off-leash. We have some obedience training to do, but she is a little lover. <br />
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:: Christmas Eve: setting out carrots and lettuce for the reindeer and cookies for Santa (they were a little protective about Santa's goodies). <br />
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:: Christmas morning with Nana. <br />
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:: Elk Refuge sleigh ride with Nana and Papaw. <br />
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:: Sometimes I struggle to figure out what Juniper really loves. It's a question that doesn't have a simple, one-word answer like "skiing" or "trucks" or "dolls" or "biking". But since she has been old enough to do it, she's been putting on shows. It used to be "pet shows" with stuffties, but has progressed to shows with smaller characters like matchbox cars and Playmobil. Animals, still, are the center of the show with humans, occasionally, having a supporting roll (usually as a "butcher"). Here: she was tickled pink to have a captive audience. <br />
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Playmobil show--holy heck she <i>loves</i> Playmobil; this animal-fairy set was a Christmas gift from Hazel:<br />
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Another show:<br />
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:: As for Hazel, she could have received nothing for Christmas but a bag of those egg-shaped lip balms. She loves on them constantly, until they're gone. A typical scene around these parts: Juniper putting on a show, Hazel applying lip balm:<br />
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:: Minus 2 degrees on the sled hill, Hazel and my man. <br />
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:: New Year's Eve. Sushi, hard cider, campfire, sparklers, fireworks, friends and family. Love! <br />
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<i>^Our good friend T and Aunt D watching fireworks.^</i></div>
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<i>^Hazel burned her mittens while I was taking this photo. Oh, the sacrifices of getting a good shot.^ </i></div>
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That's all folks! I'll see you here again, hopefully before another 2 months pass us by.... cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-72772470736680397072014-11-01T22:46:00.000-06:002014-11-01T22:46:56.713-06:00The Princess and the...FirefighterJuniper is not a shy kid. Never has been. She'll sidle right up to a rough-looking carney at the fair and bombard him with questions. She does, however, get star-struck. Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Firefighters...she'll blush, runaway, or hide her face. <br />
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Originally, our family Halloween costume was going to be Charlotte's Web-themed (the first chapter book we'd ever made it through as a family). Juniper: Wilbur, Hazel: Charlotte, me: Fern, my man: John Arable. But as we were headed to the fabric store, Hazel suddenly declared she would be nothing but a blue princess. And Juniper waffled around, landing on "A big green monster." In the end, I ran out of time and scrambled for the costumes we already had or could easily acquire. <br />
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My mom had given her a firefighter costume and accessories for her birthday. Juniper had owned it for a full two weeks without trying it on. Whenever we suggested it, she reverted to her third-person saying, "I think Juniper's too shy of that." A few days before Halloween, we got her to try it on. And oh, my. Her face turned pink. She was bashful, proud, shy, elated. She gazed at herself in the mirror, star-struck by her own reflection. She was nervous. Hazel sidled right up to her, saying, "It's okay Jun-i-per. It's okay sister." The little ballerina-princess consoling a tough firefighter. So damed cute. <br />
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:: And a few more from a month of Halloween and Dias de los Muertos activities: </div>
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Hazel's just always doing that^, regardless of the holiday. </div>
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This is "Little Brother." He entered our lives the end of September. He was found to be without a heartbeat, so the kids made him a heart and gave him a few vaccinations. </div>
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Trip to the Pumpkin Patch: </div>
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Hazel is now the camera shy kid. Plus, she cut her own hair a while back. </div>
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We met up with friends at the patch; the kids were leaping and diving over the straw maze, causing all kinds of mayhem. </div>
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(Despite the time-crunch, I did manage to make my and Hazel's wool felt crowns.)</div>
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We do "Trunk or Treat" in our little town. It's good for little kids, but when they get bigger we'll hit the neighborhoods. </div>
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For weeks Juniper had been afraid the firefighters would recruit her and she'd never come home again. When he noticed her costume ("No way! You're a firefighter!") and invited her to tour the fire engine, she backed away, stammering, "No, no, no!" </div>
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cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-3816595077620388542014-10-24T21:39:00.000-06:002014-10-24T21:39:30.899-06:00I am hereHi. Still here. Life has been busy this autumn, in a good way, with one sad curve ball thrown in--we lost my kids' great-mamaw. Oh, there is so much to blog about. So many necklaces of words and photos I'd love to string together. The time will come. For tonight, just wanted you to know we're still here. <br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">^Camping lakeside last weekend. A rare, unimpeded, photo of this kid.^</span></i><br />
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<b>Juniper Autumn's (last) First Day of Preschool</b><br />
<i>September 9, 2014</i><br />
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<i>^Last-minute toast with Grandma as we run out the door.^ </i><br />
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As of this writing I have no clue what next year holds. Will we homeschool? Will I send her away for a 9 hour day (counting the 2 hour roundtrip bus ride) to Kindergarten? Will we move? Four years ago we couldn't conceptualize this predicament, let alone how soon it would come. <br />
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:: As for Hazel's first morning home alone, she chose to dress like a bear and sail to her heart's content. <i>"I said high mama! That's not high. HIGH!!!" </i><br />
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cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-72652399916557703512014-08-31T23:51:00.001-06:002014-08-31T23:52:52.720-06:00hiking with little kids<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(Gee whiz, I'm tired. I started this a couple days ago....) </span><br />
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I have a vacation post, summer snaps, garden post and a big ol' letter to Hazel brewing in my blogging bucket. But first....</div>
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:: My happy place: outside, roaming the wilds of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem, placing feet to earth, cool, a camera in my hand, with my three favorite people. We had the best hike today. </div>
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We hadn't hiked much this summer, it was <i>so hot </i>(high 80's), we gravitated towards water instead. But then, monsoon rains! Hail! More rain! Everything cooled off. Flies vanished. Mosquitoes too. (Also today, sadly, my tomatoes are dying from some fungal blight.) But dang if this isn't the perfect hiking weather. </div>
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We made tracks, played games, explored newly fallen pinecones and half-rotting bolete mushrooms. Hazel half rides, half hikes, but Juniper will run up a steep trail, leap over logs and dash up gravely scree, if she has cause. This hike, we were all trying to push the capacity of our lungs and so we made a game of it. </div>
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I (or my husband) would sprint up the trail until my lungs collapsed, then dive behind a tree and await my prey.</div>
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Juniper would run up the trail behind me (Hazel in her wake), squealing, anticipating the surprise attack of a wild, roaring bear. Together, they would knock me to the ground with their magic freezing powers. And in this way, we made it to the top of a steep hill. (I was sore the next day.) </div>
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When that game wore out and the kids would ask for a snack break right after having a snack break, we moved on to "flower power": I'd pick a plentiful wildflower to carry Juniper further up the mountain. She'd hold it high in the air and march up the trail.</div>
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Or pick berries. Kids are natural foragers and they love plucking something right out of the forest and popping it in their mouths. (It is well worth it to know your edibles.) </div>
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We were too late for huckleberries, but we came home with enough oregon grape to make a batch of jelly. </div>
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Most glorious of all, when we got as far as we were going to go, we ducked into a dry wash. My man took the best kind of nap and Hazel found a fairy cave. The kids went bonkers, spending the next half hour or so cleaning, furnishing and decorating the fairy cave. And I had absolutely nothing to do but watch, make suggestions, and simply exist in the presence of my children. My happy place. </div>
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^Note the stack of "firewood" staying dry inside the cave. </div>
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You know how you can have a gloriously full day? We had a full hike. Even though we were no more than a mile from home and we never made it above timberline and we didn't even have a creek to walk along, we had a complete, satisfying, bucket-filling hike. </div>
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My man was rested, Hazel exhausted, I was in my happy place, and Juniper was pumped. </div>
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She ran down the trail a la Laura Ingalls in the prairie grass, but tripped on a rock, flew through the air and landed on her face. </div>
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She wiped the tears away, laughed about her flying body, and was ready to pick berries again. We were only gone from the house for a few hours, but it felt like the universe had granted us a whole extra day together. My happy place. </div>
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Then she hops in the sled or wagon and asks that I pretend to be the mule. (I am a mama; I am always the mule.) <br />
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:: We are listening to the <i>Frozen</i> soundtrack, again. Hazel is wearing a white cape and one sparkly plastic princess heel, lopsidedly clomping around the house, <i>CLOP....CLOP....CLOP.</i> She disappears and it gets quiet. Me: "Where's Hazel?" Hazel appears from around the bend: "No. I'm Elsa." Lately, Hazel is either naked or wearing a cape, or wearing a cape naked with one plastic heel, and a crown. <br />
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<i>^It's rare that we find *both* plastic heels.^</i><br />
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They are Elsa and Anna, or two Elsa's together. They wear blue and white because those are "Elsa colors". Though they dress as princesses, they want to grow up and open a business as Ice-Sellers, together as sisters. Because they cannot imagine a day when they will be apart. <br />
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(They find it unimaginable and horrifying that Elsa and Anna sleep in separate rooms.) </div>
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They share everything: books, toys, clothes, shoes, cups, food. They share a room and sometimes a bed. In their own beds, they sleep with no more than twelve inches between their heads. They play rescue, animal shelter, restaurant, Charlotte's Web (a.k.a "butcher"), dinosaurs, family, and race (J: "as fast as Lightening McQueen because he's my favorite"). <br />
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My mom always says she got exactly what she wanted: a boy and a girl and she wanted the boy to be the oldest. As for me, I wanted the pair. Although I surely would have found irreplaceable joy in any combination, I wanted either brothers or sisters. Not that brothers and sisters don't play together, but you know.... I played with barbie dolls and my brother blew them up with firecrackers. <br />
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Lately I have seen some fledgling fist-fights. We practice empathy, work through the anger, but in the end, the magic wand is one sister or the other offering a compromise. They do it on their own, usually, and witnessing this selflessness for the sake of the whole makes my heart sing. They always prefer to be together. One minute they are hitting, the next minute Juniper is grasping Hazel's hands asking, "Hazel, you promise to be my sister forever?"<br />
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*This post was, in part, inspired by one of my favorite bloggers and <a href="http://www.digthischick.net/2014/08/somewhere-between-elsa-and-katy-perry.html#sthash.FqxiWucM.dpbs">this post</a>. </div>
cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-50267207908348661302014-08-02T01:25:00.000-06:002014-08-02T01:38:47.486-06:00July Camping: Green River Lakes {a personal history}I know you know we have a history with this place, Green River Lakes, Wyoming. We were <a href="http://www.clovescorner.blogspot.com/2014/07/happy-marry-day-11-years.html">married</a> there. You knew that. But also, we met there; in the Upper Green. Fourteen years ago my man lived in a 1950's airstream trailer nicknamed "The Silver Bullet." It was employee housing, parked on the Green. He was a fisheries biologist. I was a wilderness ranger. It was a hot, dry summer and the west was on fire. We fought forest fires together and as they say, the rest is history. <br />
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But there are so many more fingers to this story, all cradled in the palm of the Upper Green River. Before I had even met my future husband, I was partnered with his brother's new bride to patrol the backcountry of Green River Lakes. We hauled a pulaski and cross-cut saw on our ten-day packs, cut huge logs out of the trail and didn't see another soul for days. We were wet, tired and driven. By the end, my cheap government-issued jeans were held together with duct tape. <br />
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And then, a year or so later, my man and I found ourselves working together on the Green. We were snowmobile patrol rangers. We spent an entire winter in this drainage communicating largely by hand signals. I have a pair of earrings made from the ivories we pulled off a wolf-killed elk that winter. Off-duty, we lived together in a tiny attic apartment in a tiny town. We married the following summer. <br />
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But even before that--long, long, long before that--my step-dad's parents owned a small cabin on the Green, just before you get to the Forest Service boundary. They had sold it long ago, but my step-dad (a born and raised Wyomingite) always wanted to come back. So when I was just a kid he traded a sculpture (he was an artist) and a little cash for some land about an hour away from that cabin on the Green. Slowly, he scraped together a cabin of his own. And slowly, he made it bigger. He spent his teacher's summers at that cabin. Off and on, one or another of his kids would live there and work or ski or marry and move on. I moved there after graduating from college. I stayed in that rustic, remote cabin for three years, until I met my future husband. So I suppose you could say that if a long ago couple from Cheyenne, Wyoming had never owned a little Cabin on the Green, my husband and I would never have met. Such is the fate of the world. Such is the binding ties of a place. <br />
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We hadn't <a href="http://www.clovescorner.blogspot.com/2011/10/into-valley.html">been back</a> since I was pregnant with Hazel. My mom and her dog came for a July visit, and so we went camping. We stayed in the campground, paddled our canoe across the lake, hiked and fished and paddled back. We roasted corn over the fire and my mom made "hobo packs" (veggies and meat in tinfoil and cooked in the fire)--something she'd remembered eating over campfires long ago. We found out mosquitoes<i> love</i> Hazel and she reacts strongly to them. We had three days, two nights. On our way home, we stopped at another, smaller lake along the Green River. Paddled more, fished more. <br />
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I am no poet, but I'd started a quick just-before-my-head-hits-the-pillow list of our camp experiences one night in the tent, and it turned into a silly, rhyming poem, which I'll share with you: <br />
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Sunscreen sticky,<br />
sandy toes<br />
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Dirt-crusted sweat,<br />
marshmallows<br />
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Paddling and<br />
wooden oars<br />
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Blistered palms,<br />
campfire s'mores<br />
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Quiet lake<br />
smooth and still<br />
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Waterfalls roar<br />
on a hill<br />
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Smokey fire,<br />
burning eyes<br />
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Mosquitoes bring<br />
a small demise<br />
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Fishing a high,<br />
unspooled stream<br />
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My mother sits<br />
in a dream<br />
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Restful (more sunscreen!)<br />
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Peaceful (more bug-spray!)<br />
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Wakeful (Hazel has to pee!)<br />
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Meditation. <br />
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These lakes.<br />
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This stream.<br />
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Life's dream. <br />
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By the way, a few days after we returned home, I found out Wyoming's Governor is currently taking public comment for two proposed dams on the Upper Green River. <b>I understand that water is precious, but damming this wild river, in this wild place, is abhorrent. Click <a href="http://act.americanrivers.org/page/speakout/no-new-dams-on-upper-green-river?js=false">here</a> to send a quick comment (takes 60 seconds). Comments close Monday August 4th. </b>Pass it on. <b> </b></div>
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And a few more outtakes for the hell of it. Mentally, put this to the tune of "Let it Go," which is pretty much what Juniper and Hazel were singing (yelling?) every single time they stomped and splashed and tumbled along the lakeshore. I love their go-juice. Their "This is the Best Day EVER!" vibe. It's contagious. </div>
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<i>^I also love Hazel's broken-arm toddler run.^ </i></div>
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<i>^Grandma running!^</i></div>
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cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-87331146762413664822014-07-28T00:24:00.000-06:002014-07-28T00:33:07.412-06:00 May in MissoulaFor the family. Okay: I'm backtracking all the way to May here. (When it comes to vacation posts, this is how I roll.) A few days before Mother's Day we drove up to Missoula where my husband's brother and his family now live, <i>plus</i> my mother and father-in-law now live there too, <i>plus</i>, my sister-in-law's parents were there visiting (they're like another set of grandparents to my kids), so it was all one big awesome shebang. <br />
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Seeing family is always filled with so much goodness, like slipping into a warm, easy pool where we can all touch the bottom (versus that cold, deep ocean where I struggle to keep my head above water). I get all warm and fuzzy surrounded by people who love my kids as much as I do, when it is not just me and my husband alone wrapping them in our blankets of unconditional love. If my kid slips, she won't drown. If she takes off in a wayward direction, I'm not the only one calling her back. <br />
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I don't often get good photos from these family trips, though I do at least get snapshots with crappy lighting for the family album. There is a degree of presentness that keeps me away from the camera, although I usually regret it later. That presentness is a good thing. We still have the snapshots, even if they don't make it to the sphere. <br />
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But here, some photos I <i>did</i> get from our time in Zoo-town. <br />
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:: Caras Park, just our nucleus of four. <br />
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:: In line for the <a href="http://carouselformissoula.com/our-story/">Carousel</a> with cousins Owen and Sam. My kids are obsessed with this carousel even though Hazel's only been to Missoula twice and Juniper was just a baby when we left Montana. Their grandma gave them a booklet of all the horses and they quickly memorized each one, naming their favorites. (Click <a href="http://clovescorner.blogspot.com/2010/04/touching-ground.html">here</a> to see Juniper riding as a babe, and <a href="http://clovescorner.blogspot.com/2013/12/thanksgiving-catch-up.html">here</a> for last Thanksgiving.) </div>
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:: As my mom puts it, Juniper has no social filter. So she doesn't think twice about adopting a dog from a perfect stranger. (She has been obsessed with pets for two solid years...we need to get a dog.) </div>
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:: At Nana's new apartment just down the road from Aunt D and Uncle M. <br />
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:: Downtown (no where near Nana's apartment) walking to the Farmer's Market where I bought the tomato plants that are now producing nicely in my garden. (You go <i>Sweet Million!</i>) </div>
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:: Lunch downtown with the kids and Aunt D. </div>
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:: Winding through a narrow valley to Aunt D and Uncle M's place. You'd never know this is just 20 minutes from downtown Missoula, the second largest city in Montana. <br />
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:: At their homestead. Barbed wire and blossoms, kids playing in the creek, the cows. </div>
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:: Huge family playdate at the pool. </div>
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:: Mother's Day. It went like this: my husband and his brother awoke early and went on a wild turkey hunt, literally. </div>
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The rest of us awoke to snow. The husbands came back in time (shocking!) to get ready for our Mother's Day Plan. The plan was to surprise my husband's mother at church (even more shocking!), presenting her with a corsage--a tradition she'd had with her own mother and aunt--and join her for the service. </div>
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My sis and I had gone out the night before, so Mother's Day was really about this lady^. </div>
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I think she liked it. As for my kids, it was their first time in church. Juniper adored Sunday school (they watched a video, so <i>of course</i>) and Hazel made it about half way through before she and I ended up sitting in the truck. </div>
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:: As for me, I got the best gift: a night out, a rose, and a <a href="http://www.clovescorner.blogspot.com/2014/02/love-simply.html">card full of love</a>: </div>
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"I love how the birds sing songs to you." --Juniper</div>
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:: And it's always glorious to come home. </div>
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cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-21334722971252270272014-07-20T23:15:00.000-06:002014-07-20T23:15:29.260-06:00Happy Marry Day: 11 yearsA couple of years ago I told myself, <i>When it becomes more ridiculous to </i>not<i> have a cell phone than to have one, I'll get one.</i> That time came and went and I am now the proud owner of an iphone. (And I'm WAY excited about Instagram...note the slideshow on the sidebar of my website ------<i>weeee!</i>) That said, I've made some fledgling texting follies which may or may not have resulted in us not finding a babysitter for our 11th anniversary. <br />
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So instead, we made it a fun, fancy date with the kids. I not only <i>found</i> my wedding dress, but wore it for the first time in 11 years. (It fit! But I had made it expandable.) Juniper, especially, was ecstatic to see me in my "marry dress". She wanted me to wear exactly the same things I wore 11 years ago. I could satisfy her with the right dress and shoes (Chaco sandals) and a shadow of my grandma's pearls. She would tell Hazel, "Don't pull her dress! It's silk! It could tear!" I've never, <i>ever</i>, seen her so concerned about fashion. She gazed at me with stars in her eyes. It was quite touching. </div>
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We went to the fanciest restaurant in town and had planned to have dinner a la Fancy Nancy, but it really became more about us reminiscing to the kids about our wedding day. We had a blast. Juniper, several times, wished us a "Happy Marry Day!" I will certainly pull this dress out again before another 11 years fly by.</div>
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<i>^11 years ago. Nice to see my step-dad on this blog (tall bearded man on the right), he passed away almost 9 years ago.^ </i><br />
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<i>^From a July camping trip with my mom...blog post coming soon.^</i><br />
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(Click <a href="http://www.clovescorner.blogspot.com/2014/06/june-camping-under-tetons.html">here</a> for the first installment.)</div>
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The second time out, we camped in a small, quiet, tent-only campground on Jenny Lake. This time, it was more about the fishing. </div>
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^Juniper, plying the lakeside, found a spinner.^ </div>
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For us, staying in a campground is like going to the suburbs: we are surrounded by <i>neighbors</i>--something far more exotic to my kids than mountains, lakes and trout. Juniper stopped every single person with a dog, firing off questions: "Is that your dog? What's her name? Are you the owner to this dog?" And, "My name's Juniper and this is my little sister Hazel. I'm four and she's two." Hazel would stand nearby, shifting from side to side, looking up, scrunching her nose and repeating Juniper's same questions in her toddler garble: "Is dat yo <i>dawwwwg</i>?" At least half the campground knew us. </div>
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At camp: Juniper bounces around, starts a conversation with anyone who will look at her, which is pretty much everyone. Camping is really fun this year. We're back in a tent. The kids are learning the tricks of the trade, like how to find your way back to camp in a homogenous forest. They are climbing rocks--Juniper scaling them like a gecko, Hazel getting frustrated and whining, "But I don't know <i>howwww</i>!" They balance on the beams of fallen trees. Juniper splashes in lake water slightly warmer than liquid nitrogen and not until the sun sinks behind the peaks does she say, "Mom, I think we should go back to camp now. I'm getting kinda shivery." </div>
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^J bug, practicing her camera-smile. Note the chocolate around her lips and marshmallow above her eyelid.^ </div>
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We are in the campground of yesteryear. Tiny, one-car parking spaces, large tent sites, spaciousness around picnic tables and firepits (so many campgrounds these days have a tiny communal area and huge parking space). The road through camp is so narrow and winding, you'd hit a boulder or tree if you dropped your attention for a second. And thanks to that, the rare car moves slowly. Kids play on the road, in the road, on the other side. We don't worry. It's the first time I've been to a campground like this in years (of course we couldn't with the trailer). </div>
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:: We are still working out the kinks of car camping. I don't think I've ever been <i>good</i> at car camping--not since I was a kid camping with my dad. Packing for a ten-day *backpacking* trip I could do in my sleep (or could have, anyway). In the old days, my version of "car camping" was to load my backpack and throw it in the car. But we learn with every trip: the white-gas stove runs out of gas, so to avoid a late-night trip (with elk all over the road) to the nearest store, it's wise to have more on hand. There are four of us and one eats like a teenage boy, so we could use a bigger pot. You should never be without a potty chair (running down the campground road carrying a 45 pound kid who eats like a teenage boy = not fun). And since we're nearly always in grizzly country, we are strict about NO FOOD IN OR AROUND THE TENT, and we have designated "tent/sleeping" clothes (i.e., NOT the same clothes in which we eat s'mores). We camp in the mountains where it's cold, so I may want to remind my husband to bring a jacket if I don't want him wearing mine. And my family is sure to catch fish, so it might be nice to have a place to keep them (instead of emptying the cooler of high-dollar chicken-apple sausages and greek yogurt). Like I say, learning with every trip. </div>
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:: Hazel, on a flopping trout moments before the end: "The fish is waving <i>good-bye</i>!" After we thank the trout and break it's neck, Juniper gets into the scientific exploration of gutting<i> </i>fish. </div>
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:: Tonight, me: "Hey honey, what do you think about this picture? I was really just trying to show how much Juniper has picked up speed since last year. But all I could get was a blurry shot." </div>
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My man: "Yeah, that's because she's really picked up speed." </div>
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At the beginning of this season my husband and I made a commitment: camping every-other-weekend, at <i>least</i>. So twice in June, we drove a little over an hour up the road and camped under this infamous granite spine. We are loving our commitment, our family tent, the whole bit. I'm short on words tonight but I will say: this is the first year in a lot of years that I feel like our girls are getting to see what we were like before kids. We have so much to show them. Our passions, which once seemed lost and estranged, are creeping back into our lives, our kids marching right alongside them. <br />
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:: Evening at Jackson Lake. <br />
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:: In camp. Juniper taught Hazel and now they both climb. <br />
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:: Definitely Hazel's favorite part about camping. <br />
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:: Next morning, boat ride across Jenny Lake to a trailhead. <br />
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:: I remember camping in places like Yosemite as a kid, my parents pointing to the granite domes. We would look up, saying, "Cool," then immediately return to the more interesting task at hand: collecting giant pinecones, finding forts--or, snowbanks in June and water trickling down the trail. <br />
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^Hazel, incredulously, "I <i>forgot</i> about snow!" <br />
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:: Juniper, our wild thing, just<i> takes off</i> in any direction that strikes her fancy. ("But I just wanted to see what's on the other side of that rock!") Hazel follows and my man chases them both down. <br />
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:: Lots of fat and happy marmots along the trail to a waterfall. <br />
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:: The falls: bursting, gushing, like blood from a healthy heart. <br />
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:: Our snacking rock and where Juniper did a squat-and-pee entirely on her own without dribbling on her pants. Whoo-hoo! (Most <i>adults</i> can't even do that.) </div>
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:: Juniper: "Okay, mom. You. And I. Are Underwater Plant <i>Experts</i>...." (And the lakeside adventures begin while my man fishes.) </div>
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:: Hazel, caught red-handed. <br />
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cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-69319138205606467152014-06-21T01:06:00.001-06:002014-06-21T01:06:45.937-06:00with heavy lungsI was just cleaning out my in-box and oh, my heart sinks a little when I look at pictures of my kids from a year ago. A lifetime and just yesterday. It's like I've just dropped off the peak of a roller coaster, that same feeling, a downhill plunge. In the swing, when she gets going really high, Juniper says, "My lungs are heavy!" That's it, exactly. My lungs get heavy. They sink and press on my stomach. My heart throws in a few extra beats. Did I miss something? Did I remember to enjoy it? To love every (other) minute of it? Am I loving it <i>right now</i>? Why is my memory such a blur? <br />
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<i>^One year ago today.^</i><br />
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Right now. Juniper is wearing slightly too-big undies with yellow and orange <a href="http://sarahssilks.com/">play-silk</a>s stuffed in the back. She says it's her fire-power that she can shoot out of her bum, like a wasp. (Yeah, might have to wash those play-silks later.) We watched <i>Frozen</i> on Father's Day and she's since been trying to find her own magical powers. She's also since had a few nightmares. Last night she awoke frightened that her heart was on fire. <br />
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<i>^One week ago. Watching </i>Frozen<i>. Must have been one of the scary parts.^</i><br />
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Right now, Hazel is completely naked excepting a new (to her) pair of sandals. I'd noticed her feet were getting long, long, long. Her whole body is lengthening, stretching. Starting on the summer solstice, we'll spend the next three days potty-training. Her window was late last fall and she's not particularly excited about it now. Fingers crossed. In our country, you potty train according to weather, not windows. <br />
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<i>^Two weeks ago.^ </i><br />
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Right now, they are playing, playing, playing. I got out the Legos, which they haven't seen in months. They play so unbelievably well together. It shocks me daily. Their mutual cooperation. And when it falls apart (typically Hazel crying about not getting her way), I sing-song to Juniper, "Find a way to play together!" And most of the time, she totally does. She takes on a sweet, higher-pitched voice and says, "Come on Bazey, let's try this. There ya go! Good job. Now I'll do this and you hold this. Okay! You can have this one, Bazey." And Hazel wipes her tears and says, "Okay, Ju-per. Dank you, Ju-per." It's amazing. Truly beautiful stuff, this sisterhood. Maybe Juniper's heart <i>is</i> on fire. <br />
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<i>^One week ago. On a hike.^ </i><br />
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Right now, there is a pretend birthday party with lego cupcakes. Naked, of course. <br />
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<i>^Four days ago. Juniper put on undies, a sweater, a backpack and announced she was going on an adventure.^ </i><br />
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<i>^Two days ago. They spotted a double-rainbow.^ </i><br />
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Just now, Hazel takes those long limbs and curls up into the tiniest ball in my criss-crossed lap. She is still so small. <br />
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<i>^Two weeks ago. They found a hatched robin's egg.^ </i><br />
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<i>^Two days ago. We were all a little frozen. </i><br />
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<i>And because of that, we had a double rainbow. The first time I've ever seen the end of a rainbow. You can't see it in this photo, but I have my pot of gold, right here under my wings. </i>cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-17144426238688907052014-06-13T23:39:00.001-06:002014-06-13T23:47:56.492-06:00fire, smoke and memory <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Last night a dry lightening storm split the sky open and set-off a fireworks show. I stood outside and watched in the wind until it got too close, then I sat inside with the lights off. Tonight there is a fire burning I can see from my bedroom window. I had seen the very bolt that started this fire, a red ball at the end of it. I don't miss fighting fires; it is hot, grueling work. But oh my, I do love the smell of a healthy fire. I opened the windows to let in a hint of that smokey air. The kids stood on my windowsill in their pajamas, pigtails all askew, looking for the fire, following my description with their eyes: <i>See your playhouse? And the roof of your playhouse? Look just past the roof of your playhouse to that blue mountain in the distance. See the white smoke? That's the fire. And oh, look! See that orange light? That's a tree torching! </i></div>
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Hazel, her glass-blue eyes so wide she is practically shaking: "I see it, I see da fire! Mama, dere's a <i>big, huge, fire</i>!! We could ROAST MARSHMALLOWS!" </div>
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I watched them, the backs of their heads, their day-old pigtails, as they clambered for a spot in the windowsill. I often (too often) fret that my kids are being denied the childhood I had: best-friends within spitting distance, a swimming pool down the road and a neighborhood of kids that roamed as a pack. People often wonder what their kids will remember. I don't expect my kids to remember much. <i> I</i> don't remember much from that age. But I do sit back and watch this life, our world, inform their very souls. I watch as their neurons learn to fire for mountain goats, balsamroot, and the orange slash on the throat of a cutthroat trout. I don't worry about what they'll remember; my concern is what they will come to embody. I want them to embody kindness, love, connection, wildness, stewardship. </div>
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:: And on that note, before summer starts for real, I have some early spring snaps that are too good to miss. So if you remember waaaaaay back to <a href="http://www.clovescorner.blogspot.com/2014/04/eostre-goddess-of-springtime.html">Easter</a>, we had a visitor arrive that night. Nana graced us with her presence for a whole week. My kids may not remember it, but their neurons know to fire for baking cookies, pretending and reading with their Nana. It all counts, memories or not. </div>
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:: We semi-spontaneously hosted a small, May Day afterschool tea party. (Whatever happened to May Day anyway? I remember as a little, little, kid leaving a bouquet of flowers on a neighbor's doorstep, ringing the bell and running. But then the memories just fizzle out. How about you? What did you do for May Day and what do you do now? Anything? Mom? We did that, didn't we?) <br />
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:: In keeping with her <a href="http://clovescorner.blogspot.com/2014/05/kind-of-like-avalanche.html">Magic Schoolbus obsession</a>, Juniper turned herself into a honeybee, entirely of her own doing. In case you can't tell, the paintbrushes taped to her head are the antennae, the paint tray taped to her belly is the nectar stomach, the coasters taped to her sides are the pollen pouches, and her wings, obviously, taped to her back (I did help get those on). <br />
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:: Juniper teaching Hazel to play Candyland. Hazel, my sweet-tooth, this is what her dreams are made of. <br />
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:: Early, windy, spring walk with friends. <br />
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:: If the house is quiet, she's either eating toothpaste or...<br />
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:: 'night y'all. <br />
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P.S. YES, I herniated a disc in my <a href="http://www.clovescorner.blogspot.com/2014/04/eostre-goddess-of-springtime.html">neck</a>. It is fine, almost normal, thank you. And YES, we were rear-ended by a careless driver last week. The back end of my car needs some body work, but we are all perfectly fine (except for missing most of Kid's Fishing Day). It didn't do my neck any favors and Hazel tells <i>everyone</i> that we were in a car accident, but otherwise everything is a-okay. Thank you. <br />
<br />cloves cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599776877128438403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238584416215689469.post-72483099563480004422014-06-07T00:17:00.000-06:002014-06-07T20:17:13.629-06:00cheese for grandmaI've been trying to teach Juniper to smile. Without a camera, her face splits into the most glorious of kid-smiles, the corners of her mouth pushing her cheeks into tight, dimpled apples; every single one of her straight, white teeth all lined up like little soldiers in her mouth. Her eyes squint, the left more than the right, always. <br />
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But with a camera, she hides her face behind her hair, her arm, her work, her peanut butter and jelly. In group photos, she'll happily and readily make a "silly face." If she's excited or even a little embarrassed, she'll stick her fingers in her mouth. <i>All</i> of them. It's been this way for a while. I just can't get a posed, <i>say cheese</i> picture of this kid. And I want to. For me, yes. But mostly, for my mom. I want to be able to pay a professional to take pictures, <i>real portraits</i>, of our nucleus of four. My mom's been asking, probably for years. First, I have to be sure Juniper will smile. <br />
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<i>Okay you pros out there, what say you? I know some of you do this for a living, or at least as a favor. How do you get a stubborn 4 year old to smile--</i>really smile<i>--for the camera? </i> <br />
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(Hi mom. I know you're laughing. Apparently I was the same way, and still am. I have a picture on my fridge of my cousin smiling sweetly and me in a half-snarl, sticking my tongue out. I was maybe...7?) <br />
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I've been trying to explain why I take some of these photos: <i>Your grandparents rarely see you and I can send photos so they will know what you look like, what you've been up to. Think how sad Grandma would be not to have any pictures of you smiling! You have such a beautiful smile. </i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">My mom sent the girls new sundresses the other day. We were, for once, not planning to be terribly <a href="http://www.clovescorner.blogspot.com/2014/05/kind-of-like-avalanche.html">dirty</a>; instead spending the morning at the library, picnicking in the lawn followed by haircuts for both me and Juniper. And here they were, eating nectarines and horsing around on the library fence. </span></i><br />
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99 percent of the photos I take for myself and this blog are candid. For once, I wanted some <i>cheese</i>. The best I could get:<br />
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Yeah. We have some work to do. And then there's Hazel, the more amenable kid, showing Grandma her nice white teeth, <i>See!</i>:<br />
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Another impromptu cheese attempt from earlier this spring:<br />
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Me: "Oh, come on! Say <i>CHEESE!"</i><br />
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And again from our trip to Missoula, this time my man behind the camera and I am directing (but not smart enough to remove my cap). Apparently, "Say <i>PUPPY</i>!" elicits more of an excited, screaming O face than a smile. <br />
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I never thought I'd have to teach my kids to smile for the camera. Mom, we're working on it. <br />
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