I'm sitting

at parent teacher conferences right now, waiting for some parents to come and talk to me...I wonder if they will.....we are having conferences early this year...report cards have not even come out yet....

This will be a random post....trying to encapsulate what is going on in the lives of the Goldsmith family...


This weekend is KVACs already for Cross Country (this is like the first round of playoffs) and that means there are only two meets after that! The season literally flew by. I love coaching cross country and we are unique in what we are the ONLY sport where the coaches do what the kids do....unlike football, where coaches just sit around and say RUN or TACKLE or DO PUSHUPS, we talk the talk and walk the walk (or run the run). Go Cross Country!

Maira's favorite thing to do lately is play with her baby "Ashlee" and all she wants to do is repeatedly put a diaper on her....and then wrap her up in a blanket and put her to bed...interestingly, she will not let Amanda put the diaper on her...she only lets me.

Callum, on the other hand, is undergoing a HUGE "train phase" where all he wants to do is layout a ThomasTrack on the living room floor and narrate little stories (much like the episodes) as he plays with his trains

October 10th today, and STILL not one fire in our woodstove....this is the latest we have ever gone I think

I think it would be funny if for an hour a day we could say whatever we wanted to people without any fear of rejection, remorse, consequence, or ill will. No penalties or hard feelings. No problems whatsoever. In George Orwell's 1984, they do something similar to this with the FIVE MINUTE HATE where, for five minutes, everyone is just really negative. I wonder what our local communities, families, and cultures would be like if we did this--we could call it "EditorlessHour." I have a feeling that, contrary to what popular opinion would dictate, the positive things would many times be equal to--or be greater than--the negative things. Obviously, it would be really popular to tell people off. But what would you really GET out of that, with the exception of feeling better, of course. But, by telling someone who doesnt know you love them that...well...you love them....you have everything to gain. Possibly. I think this would reap tremendous effects in our society. Little kids are some of the happiest people on the face of the earth--they have no baggage. And I attribute this all to the fact that they say exactly what the want whenever they want to say it. Who invented manners, after all??

Butter is such an awesome food; why is it relegated to just being a "condiment," essentially, and not a main food? I mean, you've got your greasy...you've got your salty...you've got your sweetness....it satiates virtually each and every craving you have when you are hungry. Right?

Yesterday in the mail we got a letter from a former student of mine who is in her freshmen year of college--yes, that is right....a LETTER. It was absolutely amazing and it totally made our day. When was the last time you wrote a real, live letter to someone? And when was the last time you GOT a letter in the mail? What a lost art, huh? I think letter writing IS an art, by the way, because it isnt just brief soundbites like emails and blogs....a letter is its own congruous island of thought. And, as Americans (myself included) we just dont THINK like that anymore...everything in our world seems to be an "ongoing conversation" (texts, emails, etc....)