Let them call us fools.

There have been some spectacular sunsets this winter already.  But we are packing up finally!!! Heading south the end of this week.  Likely going to Red Rocks which is a climbing area near Las Vegas.  Maybe we'll check out some crazy museums too.  We have cut down even more on what we need to take with us and it feels good to be giving stuff away again and packing some other stuff up to put in the sea can.
I love listening to CBC Radio Two in the late afternoon- a show called Drive.   The other day I heard a song Forever and Ever by Royal Wood.  These two lines really stuck.
"hey hey hey I want to run with you.  hey hey hey  Let them call us fools."  
Run not as in run away but run toward-  for joy and adventure and life.
What are you running to?

 Listen to the whole song here

So grateful.

So grateful for:

2013 and all its fun, travels, lessons, tears, hugs, laughs and wonder.

We hadn’t planned on being in the Alberta Foothills for the winter, particularly the worst December weather in Calgary for the last 112 years.   But are thankful for our friends who helped us get back on our feet and became part of our journey, our lessons, and our healing.

 Wrestling dogs

 Friends who rent us their house to camp in.

 Friends who became family

 Sunbeams for napping

 Foothills sunsets

 Shop for skateboarding and dancing

Pure happiness

 New jammies

The bearded wonder in all his glory.

Thankful

Christmas Kloodge

Christmas Kloodge (pronounced clooooodje)

We are pretty minimalist Christmas people at the best of times, but this year our two boxes of Christmas stuff are in storage.  So here is how we Kloodged (thanks to Judy for this awesome term) our winter celebration together.  Those of you who are Kloodgers know it- even if you don't know the word.  Those of you who are not- the basic premise is to make it up as you go along, use objects in unique and inventive ways and be okay with much less than perfection. 

We found red and green flashing lights in the shop where we are living.  Not our style- but who cares.  Anna and I cut a spindly tree out of a fence line- very artistic.

Sliced oranges to dry in the oven for the tree,

 

Anna needle felted a few decorations and collected some of the smaller stuffys.

 

Crazy gingerbread house out of graham wafers- as only four homeschooled kids could come up with- that is a monster chicken sitting on top. 

Charlie Brown Christmas tree with Dr. Porkchop in the top.

No potato masher?  Why a whisk just might do. 

 

 

We had a great time just being together.  Clean up from Christmas was the easiest ever and none of us missed our stuff.  Next time you don't have the exact perfect thing you need---I highly recommend Kloodging.