{pretty, happy, funny, real}: 16 June 2011

I am joining Leila of Like Mother, Like Daughter today for this week's {pretty, happy, funny, real}:

{pretty}

We had a brief but violent storm last night, and this morning everything is shrouded in fog.  

This is the view to the east this morning.

And to the southwest.

{happy}

Seeing these two, who are only a year and a half apart in age, and who fight incessantly, actually sitting together and getting along for 10 minutes makes me very happy.  Adrian is more serious, mature, a thinker, and has a heck of a bad temper and the ability to smolder for long periods.  Dominic is like a spastic puppy: goofy, impulsive to the point of being dangerous, incapable of stillness, affectionate, loving and forgiving.  They are as different as two siblings could be.

Seeing my kids wearing things I knit makes me happy, too.

I am afraid I have no {funny} this week, as I failed to take many photographs.  If I could have chosen a {funny} from this week, I think it might have been Gemma, dressed up by Adrian in a black knight's breastplate and a plastic Batman mask.  She looked quite funny, but the mask was too big, slipped down, and unable to see she tripped and fell.   Was unhurt, thankfully.  Funny, but I just didn't have the camera at the moment.

{real}

Dry, hacking, nighttime coughs.  A whole house-full.  It is driving me to distraction and sleeplessness, as I am a "fix it" sort of person, and I get very bent out of shape when I feel utterly helpless.  It scares me that I still have this cough after nearly three weeks, and I worry that my kids won't shake it quickly.  I am going to see if Bret can get some fresh ginger root today without having to drive 30 minutes to find it.

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