Misc Ramblings – Page 45 – a hippie with a minivan

Zeitgeist: The Movie

Through a link on a facebook page I was introduced to this movie…

I have to say that it is Really interesting… It is Free so there is no excuse not to watch it…

Though you may or may not agree with all of it it, because I may not agree with all of it either… it does bring up a lot of questions…

The first part deals with Religion and myths and truths of where so many believes took root. Pretty much all on par except for a few details of what I was taught in my studies… and of course quite interesting in my opinion.

The second part is about 9/11 and the theory about what really happened.

The third is about Financial history of the US, the creation of the Federal reserve and money ties in with historical events and then what is predicted for the future…

Check it out… and discuss!

The official website (you can watch it there by clicking the blue square or download it)

or see it on Google Video

questions, questions, questions…

The older the kids get the more questions come out… and the older the get the more patience they have to listen to the answer and the more understanding they have get the answer…

Today in the car Xavier asked about where power comes from then learned the meaning and differences of solar power, wind power, nuclear power and hydro power. When I “quizzed” him after to see if he was listening/understood… he had retained all of them…

Then at supper at the table Simon and I were talking about those stupid HFCS commercials… Simon said “4 sylables… prop-a-gan-da” then Xavier asked what a sylable was and we explained with a few examples and he understood right away…

It is just amazing how much kids can learn so quickly… especially when they are interested…

The cutest question today though was

“Mama… how do you know all of this?”

to which I answered… “well you learn something new everyday… so the older you get the more you know”…

so he answered… “wow… you must be really old”

getting back into the routine…

Last week I finally got back in the pool to do laps…

My trip back west gave me 5 extra pounds though surprisingly I haven’t gained any inches and even more surprisingly things are filling as well or even bigger than before…I am not too sure about how that happened…I bought another pair of jeans last week and bought a size 16… I never thought that I would do that so soon… It makes me feel great though!

now I want to start losing again…

I thought that getting back in the pool would be hard… but again to my surprise it isn’t.. the first day my rhythm wasn’t there as much but it came back pretty quickly and today I am at the same level as I was before the summer hours hit…

So I am getting back into my routine of 2-3 nights a week and it really shows in the way I feel overall…

Getting out and swimming for an hour makes me feel great… I sleep better and the next day and for the next few days I feel that It gives me energy and I feel less lazy… I want to do things…

I even clean the house more…

monday morning…

three boys stomp by…

the little one falling behind…

they demand breakfast…

but first they have to pee…

so they stand on either side of the toilet while the little one looks on… when he is taller he will most likely join in..

I get the croissants out…

General Grievous brings me the peanut butter…

Obi wan runs away with the jar’s top…

Food in hand we head to the living room…

I am informed that I should close my eyes…

Why? I ask…

So that I don’t see what is starting on tv… I don’t like the show… so of course the best solution is for me to close my eyes while they watch it…

ahh…. the logic of a six year old…

mornings like this make me smile…

yesterday…

Yesterday the boys and I headed out to the cabin to see my mom…

Not only were we heading out there to hang out, but my mom had asked me to bring the boys so that they could stay over a night or two.. and Xavier didn’t forget it and kept asking me when they could…so I got them ready and just before lunch headed onto the ferry and towards the cabin…

I love this stove…

and the bath… we light a fire under it to heat it up…

it is all my uncles land and there are well marked trails everywhere… Xavier now knows two trails and is really starting to explore by himself out of sight… but mostly they stayed around…

and loved sitting around the fire…

Colin had no problem with staying in the end… didn’t even want to say bye…

Xavier on the other hand wanted to stay but didn’t want me to leave… I gave him the choice of coming back with me or staying at the cabin but the choice was really hard for him…

after staying around for too long trying to get him to decided I finally ended up leaving even if there were a few tears… knowing well that he would be fine soon after and that he would have a lot of fun…

A quick call a little later confirmed it…