pira

Last night the hubber and I watched a dvd after the sprog had gone to bed, and I was rather overwhelmed with a wave of *empty nest syndrome*

Earlier in the day I'd driven my eldest to the airport. She was off to visit a friend (her French Exchange partner from a few years back) in NYC for the weekend and the Middling-Spawn was out with girlfriends for the night. She wouldn't be coming home 'til the next day.

Usually I'm thrilled at the chance to have some calm around the house, but for some reason I was really feeling the weight of it last night.

I grew up as an only child of a pair of onlies, so I'm not bothered by a *quiet* household ~ and having married a Serb, I have to learn how to live in a loud one. Everything in this place is done at full-volume. So what happens is that I tend to relish those moments when the place doesn't resemble a three ring circus and in particular ...the clown act.

Yet ~ something about yesterday triggered a sense of melancholgy, that this is what life would be like once the girls were launched into the world. As my 9 year old snuggled up to my side, eyelids drooping and mumbling that maybe he should go to bed, it hit me like a thunderclap that I was not looking forward to the summer, when his energetic sisters are both off on their adventures far from the domestic fold...

My job as a parent is to encourage them to stretch their wings and explore the world by giving them the chance to leave the nest on their own. The eldest is going to visit France with a friend, the other is backpacking in Greece (she'd visited the Iberian penninsula last year). They are fairly humming with excitement and while I smile and help them plot the course of their adventures I'm torn up inside. My heart is like that drama mask. In turns laughing and crying, proud and sad; as my mind jumps ahead to the future...the one where all three are fully independant and living their lives far from my doorstep.

So this is what my mother went through. =__=

Karma is sending me a message. I think there is a P.S. at the bottom of the memo that says *oh and by the way, call your mother more often*

My DZ MSD body/LaTidoll Blue Rei head boy, Samual is finally starting to find his look.

I'd been whinging to Apis at Featherfall about the dearth of adult MSD boy clothing. Manufacturers tend to treat MSD males like little children or punk/gothic. BLEH! The owner of the Canadian shop, agreed and said that they had been actively searching out makers of clothing that don't treat this doll size and gender as though they are just immature SDs....like all those *cutsie shorts* a lot of companies tend to offer up, instead of slacks.

Luckily for me they are having success in this area and some portions of my boys' wardrobe have started to arrive ~ the maker is Guessdoll and this *shop exclusive* Urban Pirate outfit might as well have been tailor made for my long legged fellow :)

The hat is something that Featherfall had carried when they first opened up and I was offered once it became clear that I had a fashionista buccaneer on my hands !! His boots (these white ones are Willows') should be arriving soon, but I'd say he's looking mighty pleased with his new wig and clothing. YAR ~ all he needs is saber, a parrot...

...and maybe a Merman to woo him out of his tight pants ;)

No wait ~ already got one of those XD

I've not been particularly happy with the wig I had him in before, and it struck me that I had an extra one in his size that I'd been sent as a mistake when Jpopdolls messed up an order. They let me keep in and when I tried it on him today it was one of those moments where you are slapping yourself up side the head and saying *DOH!*

How could I have not thought of that before! It not only fits perfectly but it actually looks good. Really good *0__0!!




The outfit fits so very well. I will be trying out the lacy top on him later but right now I rather like this dress shirt...and the tricorn hat is...well it just pulls the look together.

When is black boots (that fold down in a swashbuckler style) arrive he will be ready to challenge Mizu for the title of King of Vanity. :P