hooptedoodle

"...Sometimes I want a book to break loose with a bunch of hooptedoodle. The guy's writing it, give him a chance to do a little hooptedoodle. Spin up some pretty words maybe, or sing a little song with language. That's nice. But I wish it was set aside so I don't have to read it. I don't want hooptedoodle to get mixed up in the story. So if the guy that's writing it wants hooptedoodle, he ought to put it right at first. Then I can skip it if I want to, or maybe go back to it after I know how the story come out."

This is Mack speaking. Mack is a favorite character of mine from John Steinbeck's novel, Sweet Thursday, one of my all-time favorite novels. Sweet Thursday is the sequel to Steinbeck's more famous, Cannery Row.

This post is my first "hooptedoodle". A little explanation of this, my uhmmm let's see... 4th ? blog, I think ;) My last two blogs, Life's Daily Avenue and Book of Days were mostly concerned with a major part of my life at that time, homeschooling my youngest son.

This blog's title, what happened in between, is taken from the first chapter title of Sweet Thursday and as my first, short but sweet post inferred, well.... Life happened. Big changes along with small changes. One of the biggest was my homeschooled son is no longer at home but is enjoying his freshman year of high school in the same high school his sister graduated from last year. And mom? Well, she is taking a hiatus for just a bit.

This hiatus has included much knitting, sewing, and crafting in general. It has also included reading for myself, both for pleasure and for knowledge. Regular chores, cleaning, and grocery shopping etc are still part of all this too, as well as all the myriad of things associated with having my last child in school now. Oh yeah, and I couldn't forget, it has included "enduring hot flashes" as my 6 word bio states, and too, dealing with having a freshman in college as well as high school. A freshman who spent her first semester at college in Ohio but has now transferred to a college much closer to back here at home. Mom is happy having her closer , even with all the chaos of getting her there and then back home again ;)

I hope you'll come along with me as I record parts of my "new" life and fill you in on what happens in between.