Welcome to HH!

• Plan: Stretch + Strength
• Reality: yoga for 20 min. before bed

I feel a little bit behind considering that I have to get on with the Hal Higdon schedule today.

The house is a mess, there's booth things and posters all over, I have to clean the fridge because produce delivery is tomorrow, I have a lot of paperwork to do, I want to sew my curtains, I want to move on my lesson plans... just busy.

Saturday? Was a lot of fun and thankfully, we made a profit on the festival of $300 ish. Last year the school lost $1000 putting it on so certainly an improvement. All the other parents are thrilled, but I'm a little on the bummed out side beause I would have liked to see a profit of a few grand. But everyone's on a different learning curve for fundraising and of course, I've got a different personal benchmark in my head for what "successful" is for a festival. I happen think a few hundred is great for a bake sale, but a festival that size ought to be scoring in the low thousands.

(Sunday I went to a quarterly meeting and got the real numbers from the fundraising auction I was pushing along all summer. It was over $14,000! )

Gretchen and I are getting along well and as I get to know her better I'm excited about all our ideas for playgroup and a small business down the road.

Our arts and crafts booth went over well at the festival and it was better than the booth we did at VegFest. This weekend we're going to a natural family expo not just because the topics interest us, but because we want to study booths and keep improving our booth for promoting attachment parenting and our playgroup.

I rediscovered a casual friend I used to work with years ago in college at the festival. She left because she was pregnant and I remember her farewell baby shower. It was a shock to see that baby be a 10 year old girl and two other kids besides.

Paul also saw some other kid at the festival and later told me he arrived at the same conclusion. That it was a shock to see the time of our relationship summed up in the lifespan of some other human being. Weird.

But Erica is in the cloth diaper biz now so I bought a mess of Bummi and Mother of Eden training pants from her for Julia. Gerber is up to it's usual standard in craposity -- the gerber training pants I bought for kicks performed like I expected. May as well use panties!

So Julia's in panties and home and training pants out and about and Paul and I are enjoying the trimmer diaper bag.

Sunday evening we went to a pet blessing service and it was very enjoyable to have pets in the sanctuary and have a pet theme. I was moved to tears and Paul asked me if I was ok later. I wasn't expecting it but I got sentimental remembering pets in the past.

There's a series of body + spirituality things I want to attend and have to register for.

So I'm good... but busy... and after I finish cleaning house and get Julia to sleep I need to exercise so ... lunch and carry on....