Still August... This is a basket a sweet lady friend of mine has made. The kids were wearing it on their heads so I added some tape. Reminds me of Kaws. I didn't think of him while making the x's, but it looks pretty obvious now. The little one didn't really want to pose. The little one is getting a bit more used to the kindergarten life. I think. Or I am getting used to leaving him. Today I tied my shoe laces very slowly and I could hear he didn't go on with the crying. And he was talking something quite happily after a while.
I think I'm talking to people so much these days, making up for the past couple of years!
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Ihan ensin siinä oli kahvipaketti, sitten herneitä, sitten kaikki kirjainpalikat. Sitten kaksi päätä vuorollaan.
"Mä katoin ulos ikkunasta, ja mä ajattelin, että on tulossa syksy."
"Mistä sen tietää, että syksy tulee?"
"Kun lehtiä putoo puusta."
(Ei pysty sanomaan suomeksi mitään ilman että mainitsisi syksyn.)
This was the last strawberry picking (quite a while ago). She was drawing the plum tree and every other tree on that same day (with the pencil from you R!). I still didn't finish my school summer assignment... It's still a bit warm on the afternoons. The afternoons have become long and nice with the new schedules. Loving the new schedules.
Life feels ok, maybe more than ok. I wish it would settle down a bit though. I've had nice meetings and good talks with many people. Those moments are so precious.
Murray Street is a Sonic Youth album.
My favourite mirror and his favourite mirror. Some change to the green pictures. I was obsessed about taking the kids to Linnanmäki before school starts. And I did, the day before. We got home quite late that evening.
Getting up at 7 doesn't feel too bad! Oh but for little V to get used to going to the kindergarten... it demands some cold-bloodedness. The first-grader is a very happy one. The weather got warmer again, Y has had a sunny holiday.
Then there's all this other stuff that demands a lot of energy. I never had a lot of energy.
The season changed almost over night. Over the last week anyway.
These pictures are from the nicest lake and we only went once this summer.
I have to swim there at least once more. The water is like velvet.
No more bare arms and legs. Sigh.
These two will start their careers this week, one at school, the other one at kindergarten. I've washed a lot of kindergarten textiles, cleaned some school windows and ironed silks. We have one more day off and then our life will be forever changed. I will have a school kid. I have to make sure she gets there every day. She got a new watch from my mum as a school starting present. I will also have a kindergarten kid, he's so excited. I met his teacher today for the first time.
We got cornflowers of a strange colour.
Oh cherry tree.
I thought I'd never want to leave you but after trying to figure out what to do with all these cherries I don't know anymore! First there were just flowers, then 2 cherries, and then the year after that: 2 liters of cherries. This year: I'm not sure, I think we picked at least 5 liters. There's still more. And there will be more and more every year!
But I could become a cherry picker by profession.
And V could take a jar of cherry jam to her teacher, to her school which is starting NEXT WEEK!!!
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Kirsikoiden yliannostus. Nämä eivät ole sellaisenaan syötäviä, vaan vaativat toimenpiteitä. En keksi enää kovin montaa toimenpidettä. Ehkä hillo on paras.
