A fuller moon then most

My kids are sensitive to the full moon. Last night it seemed to be imbibing them with energy until the wee hours of the morning. And not only were they staying up- but they were creating. Galen and Ewan were drawing, and Mike was witting jokes.

These are Star Wars pants jokes- you take a line from Star Wars and change 1 word out with the word "pants."

mcnewbold: I have a bad feeling about pants!
mcnewbold: Oh, Pants! -c-3po
mcnewbold: your a little short for pant's aren't you? princess leia
mcnewbold: Use the pants! obi-wan
mcnewbold: Help me take this pants off. Darth Vader
mcnewbold: I am your Pants! Darth Vader
mcnewbold: When your pants arrive, they will find this death star quite opperational! Palpatine
mcnewbold: She's got pants! Luke skywalker
mcnewbold: do you wanna buy pants? Death sticks dealer
mcnewbold: these aren't the pants you are looking for! Obiwan
mcnewbold: Pants don't work on me, only money! watto
mcnewbold: I felt a disturbance in the pants. Obi-wan
mcnewbold: then i'll see you in pants! Han solo
mcnewbold: Vader was a pupil of mine, until he turned to pants. Obi wan
mcnewbold: You scruffy looking pant

Anyways... it turns out my Dad is still going strong too. I guess it runs in the family.

and my dreams have been vivid of late- I blame that on this moon, too. :)

I just checked and this is the real full moon for the month. Hopefully it will only get less from here on out- it has been pretty tough sleeping- or getting kids to sleep anyways- these last few night.

But 4 am Galen? what are you, some kind of creative genius?

"When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator"
(Mahatma Gandhi)

and that sunset last night was pretty awesome too.

Beached Whale

When we were at Sea World,
That big happy looking whale that we got a lot of pictures of, decided he didn't want to cooperate for the fancy show. So they canceled the show, and explained that they use only "positive discipline" on the whales. Which means if they whales are good, they get lots of lovely attention, and when they are not, they are ignored. And considering the whale was just over 2 tons, they had very little choice in the matter.

Some days it feels like Galen is a beached whale. The 100 pounds of him refuses to move, and there is little alternative, but to wait until he is ready.

His autism has really been showing from about Thursday last week on. I guess there was a full moon Friday, and full moons seem to keep him awake all night, which makes it hard for him to get up and cooperate, throw in a holiday schedule, a new bunny for a brother, and some colored candy....sounds like a perfect set up for a very beached whale situation.

I was really hoping they would go back to school today and I could clean this house. But the one who could talk this morning complained of "feeling like he wants to throw up." (and he was the one who didn't even eat all his chocolate bunny).

Well, if anybody so much as peeks their head out of their bedrooms - they will be going to school.