#kindship

As reported by the @mclennonwasreal

This is, of course, a photo from John and Paul's legendary trip to Paris in 1961.

2. According to "Conversations with McCartney" by Paul du Noyer, on the walls at the MPL office in London are modern paintings or framed photographs by Linda McCartney, and in the place of honor - her famous shot of John and Paul laughing and shaking hands at the press event for the release of the album Sgt. Pepper in 1967.

3. Today, the trail has led us to McCartney’s studio in rural Sussex. Rabbits snuffle around the garden and the English Channel shimmers in the distance. There are worse places to work. A quick scan of the studio kitchen reveals a copy of Mary McCartney’s recipe book and a John Lennon calendar; March’s pin-up is “Moody John” in sunglasses posed against the New York skyline. — Paul McCartney, interview w/ Mark Blake for Q: Songs in the key of Paul. (May, 2015)

BONUS: as we can see here, a painting of John and Paul hung in an Apple office in 1968.

Sister Rock

Pearls of an angel Eyes of soft Perfect existence My sister rock Love’s induced Hands of Rome Hellfire’s loose My sister rock 

Never stirring Always on the hunt Knowledge flooding My sister rock 

String of the past She pushed the boulder These are the times My sister rock

I spoke to the twins' Mom this week and she informed me that the social worker told her that it is possible the twins could go to live with their aunt.  This is after we were told that we should expect the twins to be with us for six months.  I'm telling you what....over the weekend I was shopping out Halloween costumes for them and today I was told they could leave as early as two weeks.

Basically we are in a holding pattern while they check out the aunt.  I'm guessing that she's going to pass the background check but it sounds like she does not have vehicle insurance and I'm pretty sure that is necessary, although perhaps an exception would be made because the aunt is kin.  I hate this part of foster care--the part that doesn't allow us to plan.

When I brought the twins in for their two month check up the doctor said that he would not clear them for daycare until after their four month check up.  I'm a teacher so I'm transitioning from stay-at-home-summer-mom to full-time college instructor next week.  However, given the news from the doctor and the fact that our son is beginning 4K in two weeks and has a kind of weird schedule, I approached my boss about being a part-time employee for the fall semester.  She agreed to let me go from teaching five classes to three.  I think I may have just committed career suicide (given that my department is not all that family friendly), but felt like I was kind of backed into a rough corner: work full-time and sacrifice my kiddo (because he would have had to go to daycare, take the bus from daycare to school, attend school in the afternoon, take the bus from school back to daycare, wait for parent to pick him up) or be home more with my kiddo but give up my full-time job and therefore my salary and being the breadwinner in our family (not like I make a lot of money but my DH works non-profit so he makes less than a teacher).  It would have been really great to have known about the relative possibility before I went to a part-time schedule.