It's been too long. I still don't have internet access. I'm housesitting for friends while they're out of town and get to use their connection when I come over to feed the animals. I have a paying job now. I work at a coffe bar that's only a few blocks away, called Onion Creek. I work about 25 hours a week. I really like the job and the people I work with. The place has a great atmosphere and the work is easy, if exhausting. Tonight I work for the first time at night, at the bar on the deck. Jason is still working on building a clientele for Emancitech. It's been a painfully slow process, hence the need for me to get work. We're still in the little apartment we moved into, and we have some creepy, scary, documentary-worthy neighbors that fuck with me and the kids all the time. I should make a post solely about them some time.

We do HomeWorks, the homeschooling co-op, twice a week, and my kids are doing well, considering all we've been through over the past two years. Timely is 6.5, she's reading and she's really into math. She is the kind of kid who makes homeschooling easy, but I also worry that she's understimulated. Noble (he's 5 now) still lives for bugs and all things crawly, knows more about such things than most adults and is often correcting me when I try to teach him something in that realm of knowledge. He also has the vast mop of almost-orange curls that get all Shirley Temple-like in the humidity. Sagacious is SOFREAKINGCUTEANDADORABLEICAN'TSTANDIT. He's 2.5 and worships Noble, still nursing and I'm just so in love with him. This is not to say he isn't difficult, as toddlers can be, especially when he asks for a banana about three times a day, and each time only takes one bite out of said banana, thereby declaring, "I finished now."

My mama community remains the rock that gets me through the hard times and makes the good ones great. We still do everything together, birthdays, births, holidays, nights out, and we're starting to come together with The Last Organic Outpost to do some amazing community building type stuff.

So that's a tiny little window into my very crazy and hectic life. I'll try to post some pictures the next time I have a few minutes. Now I'm gonna go try to catch up with all of you lovely folks.