I graduated from high school in 1963.  Married in 1968.   i was 21.  Had my first child,  daughter Jenny, in 1972.  I was 26.  Son,  Jonathan  1975.  I was 29.    I stayed married to their dad for a month shy of 10 years.    During those years,  the 70's,  the house was FULL.  Always stray people living with us.  Sometimes with children.  My brother's first wife lived with us …her two kids,  off and on.  There was  no thought to it,  it just WAS.   Often.  And then the kids were early teenagers and there would be stray friends who lived with us.  No thought to it,  it just Was.

Like a tangle of Ferrets.

As it seems to be turning out,  the kids will all be here at the same time.  Once again,  that propensity…Ferretness.   Now emphasized by the fact that this is a 12X45 home.   Not the two story place of early days.   More Ferret~ish.   

Am having many feelings.  I bought a lot of food today.  Will spend tomorrow and Sunday cooking with work OutSide inbetween.   In Between.  In Between.  My kids.  My Children.  Their Children.  Feral to a degree,  us,  sharp fast humor,  kids the 3rd generation so Verbal…or is it the 4th generation???????????????oh,  eeeeeee…if i am one and my daughter and son are two and Alyssia is three,  then the kids are the 3rd and 4th………..I breathe and EXhale.

there just now was a beauty FULL and perfect STORM,  great lightning strikes,  Thunder Man throwing the bolts hard and fast,  RAIN.  Sky Water,

 

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Son's birthday.  We'll do it like it was in that other life.

 

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Jude's Winter Bitch watches

I am at the Cause of them.   My children.  and so…on,  …..to their children.   I am at the Cause.   I said Yes.  I grew them Inside my Body.

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21 responses to “like Ferrets”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    love the glowing grin of the Winter Bitch watching over your family as this party begins

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    The best, hardest work we ever do … creation

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Laughed out loud at the picture of hats and treats….so joyful I wish I was there, but I wouldn’t want to add to the ferret tangle any more. Oh you prima-genetrix a play on the noun Progenitor “an ancestor, esp. the earliest ancestor of a people; a progenitor. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: variant of progenitor , on the pattern of primogeniture.”), primal Ma, may you enjoy every minute of this. Happy cooking!

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  4. yvette Avatar

    no children here, never wanted…but what treasure these days will be!

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  5. julie Avatar

    PS Is Jenny coming too???

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  6. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Grace before you know it they will have all returned home and you will be able to sit back…smile and remember. Just like you did when writing this post….remembering! Sending you all BLESSINGS galore.

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  7. grace Avatar

    yes…i am so so glad and Lucky that she arrived when
    she did

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  8. grace Avatar

    for me, i think it’s the Becoming who we uhhh, really are?
    amidst it all??? Keeping true to that Self? and still
    keeping true also to them????? for me, that’s the only
    part that’s hard work

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  9. grace Avatar

    you would enjoy it….and they would welcome another
    Old Nana….never enough Old Nanas

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  10. grace Avatar

    i would like to have 2 simultaneous lives…one with,
    one without.

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  11. grace Avatar

    Smile…yes, a lot of oy too

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  12. grace Avatar

    no. she recently changed her job and isn’t able
    to take time off until after August. And Jeff and Fate
    are going to Michigan instead.
    If it happens again and they ALL are able to come, we’ll
    need to set up tents Out Side.

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  13. grace Avatar

    oh, “galore”….i will have moments of needing that galore
    and yes. I remind self….it all will return to
    quiet

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  14. jude Avatar

    i am imagine the sound of all these ferrets

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  15. grace Avatar

    yes, in their party hats and blowing their whizzers…

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  16. faun bonewits Avatar

    it’ll smell better than a batch of huge ferrets
    an expanding time…
    wonder if the goats would visit the people in tents?
    go-o-ood Mooo–oorningggg!
    gggggoooottt Haay?
    its exciting ?
    such a change
    not gradual the way the kids came
    slowly growing ..
    it will be good.

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  17. grace Avatar

    just in case, i’ve started burning the Nag Champa.
    if they decided to pitch in the Way Back, the Goats WOULD
    visit, for sure. That would be nice. Maybe i would be
    one of the tent people.
    it IS exciting…they are all, each in their own way bringing
    their selfness, watching it mix will be Pleasure. It’s a good
    time for the little one, Giana, 3, will Imprint her.
    Tay will be dumbfounded.

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  18. Martine Bos Avatar

    Children, the sound of voices, laughter…..so wonderful……….

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  19. grace Avatar

    soon. They made good time. 5 or 6 hours more. The SKY here is
    unbelievably FILLED with stars…..Last night i could only
    stare in awe. They will arrive having slept much of the trip
    and so awake….we will stand and look at those stars. We
    will choose one that seems to look down at us and then each
    night…go look for that star that loves us.

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  20. saskia Avatar

    oh wow yes, Keeping true to that Self, for sure the hardest part….with our boys (men?? 17, almost 18 and 19 years of age) I sense how truly they are themselves, evolving with or without me and how they move away and how I as a mother have to let them, and at the same time as I am the One who has having given birth to Them, I am forever attached in ways I don’t yet know…I am Also defined by them , No Matter What Happens

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