long catchup update post

This goes back several weeks... a lot of little details, just to keep track. Thank goodness for calendars! 

Speaking of keeping track, if you are a blogger who knows how I could search my blog for key words, I'd like to know. I do have some kind of widget addon thingie that is supposed to do that, but it doesn't work very well at all.

A couple weekends ago, the big boys took a tour of Bash0, a local business that does screen printing. The owner was more than willing to show them around and Jamie was impressed with the shop. He says he'd like to do something like that for a living - he seemed to appreciate being able to produce art and dress comfortably. (Jamie, do I have that right?)

Evan, Jamie and Je  have a plan to start a small business offering tees (and other things?) which feature Jamie's art and some of Je's ideas for storylines, jokes and catch phrases. This tour was a good start to understanding the whole process, and Bash0 was willing to cooperate with them in their venture - very cool.

At the same time, I was at a birthday party with R and K for R's friend T. The boy does love his birthday parties. He's got two more this weekend!  Who are these adventurous people who have kid parties for 3-year-0lds??! 

Next day, I had a very nice visit with another hsing mom, about an arrangement we'll have next year. I will do some childcare for her while she teaches at the local college, and she's going to do some science/anatomy/dissection stuff with the kids that would be nearly impossible for me to do here right now. She also provided me with some no-nonsense parenting advice and calm reassurance about the teen years soon to be upon us.

The next week (of the 16th):
- we visited the new art exhibit at the Glen Helen building. There were some lovely paintings there of local places.
- did a paid research thing at anthrotech, testing out how easy/difficult it was to replace the handles on an infant carseat
- visited the children's center with r, didn't seem like it would work for us
- potluck at orion organics

- Ryan went to Shelly's house and had a great time-Mimps turned 80 - we are visiting this saturday for a big group picture

Comments

[suzee]

You have such a lovely family, from Mimps on down!

Exciting about the business venture. And no-nonsense advice on teens? I want a piece of that action!

[stefaneener]

So beautiful. I would love to hear the teen advice. Actually, I'm totally open to parenting advice . . . from about three people exactly.

[Carlette]

Have you looked at Cafepress.com?

That might be a place to start, since it is free, and they print by the item, instead of in lots.