you can mix any color, including flesh tones (148/365c)

early in the morning, i still had quite a bad headache. at 9:05 i suddenly realized they had to be back in town for the next singschule thing. so i biked them all there and we made it in plenty of time. then back by way of the farmers market.

i was glad to be back home for coffee.

felix and i picked them up too, and stopped at the craft store to buy magenta, yellow and cyan paint. when we got back home (freezing and wet from the sudden rain) i mixed colors for a long time until nina and centa arrived simultaneously. we had tea, and centa went and got last minute things for felix's schultuete (which we will finish decorating tomorrow)

henry and i cooked together, i showed him how to make pancakes, because that's what he wanted for dinner.

happiness for dinner

really really really no mushrooms (147/365c)

if ingrid cz can't find them nobody can. she took us for a beautiful walk in Hart bei Graz, in a completely forsaken gorgeous woods. We were in a hurry because Theodore and Henry had their first singschule appointment of the school year today.

what if you went looking for fungi and all you got was a perfect walk on a gorgeous day?

she even brought us home with her and fed us dinner, such yummy food, and stefan got to take a break and eat with us. then she even drove us into town because we missed the last possible bus/tram connection.

The first chorus thing was a workshop for other chorus teachers, so felix and i stayed to watch. it was pretty interesting. they did sing warm-ups for the entire hour.

we walked the slow way around and got ice-cream. we got there just as a new girl started for her first time. i think the people behind us thought we were slow, but really she had to be explained how to put in a new thing of ice-cream when one was too low, how to put stamps on the loyalty cards, she had to look up in a little book what was in each flavor of ice-cream and everything. by the time we left the shop the line had spilled way into the street.

we walked them to the next singschuhle appointment and let them get themselves home. we stopped for groceries and made chinese noodles for dinner. i thought it would be a smash hit, but they were so tired from their long hike that they had little enthusiasm for food and i had quite the headache. we watched a movie, Go West, and i fell asleep during it. I guess they must have put themselves to bed.

where are the wild things? (146/365c)

centa got home early, which was a nice change of pace. jackie came over with her kids, and all 5 of our combined children disappeared to play together however they wanted. they made the baby a crown and put it on his head while he slept (the crown was supposed to be for them, but they made it too small)

king vito
reminds me a bit of max from "where the wild things are"

brigitta stopped by to pick up some music, and i took a photo of her for publicity. i quickly edited it and sent it off. she apparently didn't like it very much because she scheduled an appointment with a "real" photographer for the next day. oh well.

a quick manuela visit (145/365c)

i had so many things planned for this morning, but none of them happened. i was going to go back to eggenberg, visit friends, have other people come over. but instead we had lots of good times at home, and at the playground. good enough for me.

before she leaves on a long trip to france, manuela visited.

looking for the countries we have coins from 

showing manuela the fastest checkmates

bedtime was later than i wanted, so i gave up on reading stories. when felix got annoyed by that, somebody pointed out that i didn't say manuela wouldn't read any stories. they were right, so she did. :)

walking in the rain (144/365c)

wonderful breakfast time this morning after lots of snuggles. they were so sweet when they heard i stayed up too late last night. and they were astonished too: "we can have oatmeal AND cake?"
theodore and i wrote letters to grossmutter, and then we went to deliver them, and it started to rain. we found a child-size desk and carried it almost all the way home, and then had the brilliant idea to wheel it home which made the last 50ft of the journey quite easy. i wish i had a photo of that. i don't know what to do with the desk though - we have too much stuff, and no walls.

we got books out of the library and went shopping for ingredients to make an "omama" dinner (because for some nostalgic reason i really wanted to make cucumber sauce with potatoes a la omama. - i swore i had written down how she made it, but when i looked through my old journal from 2007 and 2008 i couldn't find it. though it made me even more nostalgic)

felix discovers multiplicities of himself in the mirror at bedtime
(way after bedtime, i read stories till 10:15pm)
(we really need to start adjusting before school begins in a week) 

i went to the scherbe and celebrated jackies birthday while the kids were at the playground running around in the rain. they were so happy they didn't want to leave. i biked home with a case of wine on the back of my bike, and in the case were hidden some stickers that are a present for felix. he promptly opened the case when we got home, and asked me if i knew there were some stickers there. i told them they weren't for him. won't he be surprised next monday?

up to date on the blog behind on yoga. win some, lose some (143/365c)

spent a lot of time today getting caught up on my blog diary thing. i had been behind since sting took over my life at the beginnng of june. it took all day, and now it is well past 1am and i'm still going strong and today is really today and that feels good.

we had croissants that nina brought over with homemade jam and coffee, and centa worked on her thesis and theodore worked on his project

which right now is copying a mcguffy reader

and after noon, after a few repeat coffees and wonderful vitamin d outdoor time, we made dinner and cleaned up. cleaning up i noticed a calendar for events at schloss eggenberg, and one of them was today for kids, a creative workshop, so i rushed everyone out the door

playing or cleaning?

the "creative" part of the workshop was a little silly, coloring in pre-stenciled masks, but the kids loved it, and the tour of the museum was well worth it. unfortunately i left my card there by accident so i'll have to go back. we came back in the rain, and it had suddenly gotten cold.

writing letters with henry and felix(142/365c)

how lovely today was...

the best moments for parents are when kids say something like "will you help me do this?" and then you say "yes" and then it actually works out. Henry took an old broken fountain pen, and we sawed the thing apart, and hot glued a special (gold and silver, he says) feather to the end, after carefully cutting it to the right size to fit and then he wrote a letter to Granny with it.

just wonderful

and Felix caught the letter-writing bug and wrote a LOT of text

to grandpapa