One of those days where I'm high

You know those days (like the last several) where you are under too many florescent lights and too much pressure from work and you are hearing too many voices in your head telling you things you ought to be doing (print programs! clean house! do laundry!  pay bills! sell your stupid car already!  do something about the ridiculous pile of dirt and weeds in the backyard!) .  And so you rush manically about trying to obey the voices, all the while lugging a nearly 20lb cutie pie around who is incredibly distracting and adorable and demanding.  Especially when you're ignoring her to try to work.   You know those days?  

Well, something broke somewhere and suddenly the light rushed in (as it does for me, from time to time) and we are back on the high road.  Voldemort is dead, you know??  Hopefully you knew.  Oops.

My deadline at work is done.  I had to be a bad Mom and a bad Shabbat host in order to be a part of an evening event last night.  Stress.full.  But now it's over.  

And Phin has made huge progress in the backyard/pile of rubble so that NOW it is beginning to look like a place that happy plants might like to live and grow and produce wonderful colors and smells and even foods!  

And very soon, Lulu will get to start eating foods (maybe ones I grow, hypothetically).  And Samm is doing a juice fast for 10 days and then we are both going to integrate green juice into our lives.  Here is Samm with his new juicer.  (And Phin behind him, working on those new garden beds!)

WORD TO THE WISE.  When juicing, do not include onion or garlic.  Ohhh gosh.  My eyes are watering from drinking it, seriously.  I had two sips.  We had to throw away the first juice batch.  You live and you learn.   Or, I guess you could look up recipes...  Here are the good parts that got drowned out by the onion :(

So my list of things to do today is:

1. Figure out what I can still plant this late in the year.  My gardens beds will be ready in about an hour. (!)  Thank you, Phin Hodges!!!  Especially, what can I plant that Lulu can eat and we can juice!  Cucumber, Zucchini (already growing), parsely... Any other suggestions?  Easy perennials that smell nice?  Or look nice?  
2. Figure out how to start a human on solids.  (want to make yogurt!  want to make yummy concoctions with avocado and peaches and sweet potato and spinach, oh my!) (separately, and definitely no onion.)
3. Encourage Samm in his veggie eating/drinking. Join him occasionally. Watched a juicing documentary "sick, fat and almost dead"... very inspiring.  Run!  Eat veggies!  Yay! I won't be juice fasting though.  Right now I have to eat A LOT.  Breastfeeding is insane:  I am under 120 lbs. for the first time in YEARS.  I need food.  It's wonderful.  I will cry for several reasons when she weans.  But that is far away.  
4. Maybe do laundry.  
5. Go to the strip farmers market with Samm and Lulu.

Can I avoid the stressful weeks?  No.  Can I make them easier by having better boundaries?  Probably. Do they make the highs better?  Absolutely.