off to minas tirith!

I had an email this morning asking if the local newspaper could run the picture of Seirid and Breic with their snowman in this week’s paper. That’s cool. :) *laughs* From a fitness rules thing on msn.com: “[Forget weighing yourself.] Place your fingers on your belly and inhale deeply so that it expands. As you exhale, contract your abdominal muscles and push your fingertips against your hard abdominal wall. Now pinch. “You’re holding pure fat,” says Tom Seabourne, Ph.D., co-author of Athletic Abs (Human Kinetics, 2003). Do this every day,…

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many things

Seirid, yesterday, was singing, “Who let the dogs out!” and then barking. Except all of a sudden he said “No no no,” and sang “Who let the ducks out! Quack! Quack! Quack quack quack quack!” I have funny nephews. :) I have decided to keep on with the beginners Pilates for another few weeks, not so much because I don’t think I can do an intermediate level workout as we’re going to Dublin for three days next week and the minute I get TRUTHSEEKER finished we’re going on holiday somewhere,…

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insanely cute nephews

Mom made Breic and Seirid their Halloween costumes this year: Seirid is going as a baby T-Rex, and Breic as Cernunnos (I swear that’s not my fault). You can see where his cloak has a place for antlers in the hood, which I think is terribly clever. And I think they’re terribly cute. Happy Halloween, everybody. :)