Jet LAGging and blog reading

On a rainy morning in Sydney last week (the only rainy one of the trip)I found that wonderful Kelli had passed along the following award in a comment to me. How excellent! In looking at her list of blogs that she included in this group I discovered an unschooling family that are blogging about a long stay in France. It was so cool (and surreal) to be reading about their French adventures while we were having our own in Sydney. I hope that someone out there discovers a new blog from my list. Whoever chooses to accept the award then needs to nominate ten other blogs.



Here are some of the excellent blogs I most regularly read:

http://www.xanga.com/juliepersons

http://touchtheearthfarm.blogspot.com/

http://www.groovykidstuff.com

http://another-roadside-attraction.blogspot.com/

http://dancing-chickens.blogspot.com/

http://foothillhomecompanion.blogspot.com/

http://joyfullylearning.blogspot.com/

http://arewethereyets.blogspot.com/

http://waynforth.blogspot.com/

http://elliottjournal.typepad.com/chitown2beantown/

http://fuhkauifamily.blogspot.com/

http://only-connect.blogspot.com/

http://ourhouse.typepad.com/full_circle/

Plus the first five I started going to in the beginning that are listed on the side. So many more,Alecto and Kimba... so little sleep, so using jet lag as an excuse to stop now. With Sage Reader, it is really very quick to catch up on many.

That freaky looong sleep that we experienced on the first night back after barely sleeping on the flights home? No longer the case. The 17 hour time difference has been making itself felt ever since. Fortunately, the kids are doing OK. They are getting to sleep by 11pm or midnight and are sleeping straight through. Nicolas was OK until last night, the night before his first day back farming. He was up until 5am reading "The Count of Monte Cristo" in french. I was sure that would knock him out.

I have been up successively later every night - last night until 6am, and then I never really reached deep sleep before getting up at 10am. I love having all that quiet time in which to read. I read "Gluten Free Girl" - the book, not her web site. It is a memoir about how she discovered that she was a celiac (I'm wheat sensitive) and is mostly a love story about the bliss that is wrought forth by real food - from the blackberries that are in season in Seattle to the rare olive oils that she has discovered in chef warehouses. If I'd had any food left in my kitchen, I would have spent those quiet wee hours of the morning cooking her curry carrot soup or flourless chocolate torte... I am going to brave a jet lagged drive to the bank and the grocery store now, leaving my children safe and sound at the farm. When I return, we'll stay awake by baking some sort of luscious chocolate creation.