It's the time of your life, so live it well...

i'm sitting here at the computer. teo, keelee, and joshua are all asleep as the credits roll on "a bug's life"...they are little kids, and i absolutely adore them all. i took teo and keelee to the park tonight to give mama a break. i was supposed to go out on the town tonight...i prefer the park, and this moment right now, with the babies sleeping in the next room, and a nice breeze coming in the window, after a long evening of playing "chase the monkies around the park to get them back in their cages which they cleverly escape from every time i turn my back." i'm off to take a shower, and then to bed. i think i'm moving into the unfinished attic in the next few days to make room for more guests. if anybody's interested in helping me finish it, that would be sweet. living in community is nothing and everything i expected all at once. it's excruciating and exhilerating, and exhausting, and completely humbling...time consuming, rewarding, blissful, dreadful, the list could go on and on and on. i am where i'm supposed to be...who would've thought? saginaw, michigan. probably the second to last place i would've picked next to where i graduated from high school. there is such a need here. people need to start investing in this area. i think i am as worn out and as happy as i would be in any other place. i think i need to go to bed.