Fahklempt. Gorgeouses. I’m fahklempt!

By the way, I’m writing this mid-day. Kids are playing on the bed as I type (boy, would I love a king-sized bed right now), clouds are rumbling, beautiful leaves kind of glowing in the haze outside the window…). Normally, I’d be checking email right now, maybe twittering, or, if lucky, reading a blog or two. But, today, I’m thinking about priorities. Emails are quick, but they can’t come before the actual work. When I put them before the actual work, I end up, like yesterday, looking for pictures of celebs in bad clothes until 2:30am, and getting but ONE lame-o gossip item off the ground. How’s that for time-management!

As I was saying…, fahklempt. I’m fahklempt because the Monkey’s finished school and WTF am I going to do with NO SCHOOL FOR 3 WEEKS. Ahem. They threw the sweetest little goodbye party, which all of us thoroughly enjoyed….


Rascal eating his Mum Mum!!

On a table, next to the food — the cupcakes — that I couldn’t eat, were yearbooks. YEARBOOKS! How cute is that? But, these weren’t just any yearbooks. No, they were ADORABLE, personalized yearbooks. Each child got his or her own. That alone touched my little black heart! (hee.) But, GORGEOUSES, LOOK at it!


A picture of her with her wee hand prints underneath!


Photos of her doing her THANG in the class room throughout the year…. OY!


Photos of her classmates….


The monkey’s artwork in plastic folder things…!


And, this. This poem. Brought on the tears. Crocodile tears.


Fahklempt.

Thank you to all Monkeys teachers for being absolutely INCREDIBLE. We love you and will miss you dearly!

12:19am….

I’m back. It’s been a long day of clingy Rascal and CARAZAY Monkey….


Sorry for the blur, but can you STAND it? Of course, I wanted to buy that hat, but it was $29.00….

And, just when I was about to say NO to this fabulous opportunity for fear that Rascal would miss me too much, it’sgrandma shook her head and said “YES. You and Josh are going. You NEED this, Haley!”

So, we went. We went to THIS, Gorgeouses….

We went to The Fiddle and the Drum…. Joni Mitchell’s latest art exhibition and album (SHINE) PLUS the Alberta Ballet Company EQUALS pure and utter wordlessness. Fahklempt. It was one of the most stunning and important pieces of art I’ve ever seen in my entire life…. A combination of art, music and dance to convey messages of PEACE, of NATURE, and of INNOCENCE….

“As an artist creating today, quite frankly, I can see no other subject matter that is of more importance now. We need people to awaken to this reality,” said Mitchell. If anyone can awaken us to this reality, it’s Joni Mitchell and this wonderful dance team….

It is much too late at night for me to do this performance any justice, and much too early for me to reflect on it, in writing. I’m still registering what I saw. The beauty (look at those magnificent BODIES), the passion (a BEAUTIFUL, SENSUAL duet between two male dancers, for example… — I’ve never seen anything like it), the emotion (a little girl frolicking about the stage….). So powerful….

Fahklempt. So very fahklempt.