sorry, it’s mostly about snot
It’s been that kind of week.
- Josh is on his second day home sick from school. Mostly cause of the pinkeye, but the coughing up a lung doesn’t help either. Neither does the massive amounts of snot.
- He’s missing picture day at school. He still get his picture taken later, but he won’t be in his class picture. Bummer.
- The eyedrops, oh, the @*$&% eyedrops. Every 2 hours.
- I’ve been to Target twice in three days and last night I realized we need more kid cold medicine.
- I can’t go back there again with a sick kid, I just can’t. Yesterday’s trip cost me a $35 Lego set while we waited for his eyedrop prescription to be ready. I just can’t say no to him when he’s this miserable.
- He’s not sick enough to just lie in bed and read a book though. He wants to do crafts! He must paint or die! And puzzles! All. Over. The. Place!
- I’m out of my coffee. The horror! I need my coffee. Especially today.
- How bad would it be to take my pestilential kid to the coffee shop?
- I have a headache.
- I’m desperately trying not to get sick too. I think I need a haz-mat suit. Clean up on aisle eye 7 2.
- I can’t tell if the headache is from lack of coffee or imminent illness.
- I have company coming tomorrow. I should probably warn them about the pinkeye, huh?
- Why isn’t it Friday yet? I need it to be Friday.
It’s been that kind of week. And it’s snot over yet.
apple picking
When I was growing up my family had a mini apple orchard in our backyard. I was spoiled with homemade apple crisp and applesauce throughout every fall. I’m not so lucky to have apple trees in my own yard now, or even enough sunlight to support them if I tried, but we do have lots of orchards in our area.
We went apple picking this morning, and it was a perfect day for it, cool, but sunny. When we got there, we decided to go check out one of the fields a little further away, assuming the close by trees would be fairly well picked over. It was a great decision! I’ve never in my life seen such huge gorgeous apples, nor trees so full of them.
Seriously, every single branch looked just like this one.
The woman working there said it was a bumper crop. Not only did the apples love the rainy weather we had in July, but the owners had brought in extra bees to help pollinate and boy did they ever pollinate! (Did you know there’s been a bee shortage in New England for the last few years?)
Btw, they taste as good as they look too. Those apples were truly glorious.
The scent of fresh cinnamon applesauce is permeating everything in my house right now. I bet if you scratch your screen you can sniff it. ;) I’m definitely making apple crisp later this week. Who’s coming over with the vanilla ice cream?
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farewell GL
Okay I admit it, I watch Guiding Light. Or as of later today, past tense, watched.
I’ve tried other soaps and just none of them even vaguely pull me light Guiding Light always has. It’s an addiction.
I started watching it close to 30 years ago. Thirty. 3. 0.
My mother watched it back then and I would sneak a peek, and eventually got hooked. Luckily I would get home from school just before it started at 3pm everyday so I rarely missed it during it 80’s heyday.
Reva and Josh, Philip and Beth, Tony and Annabelle, Maureen and Ed. Lujack, swoon. Fletcher Reade. Oh my. The bad guys Roger and Alan.
I stopped watching in the mid-late 90s. I just didn’t have time, and there was no such thing as a DVR. But I just couldn’t stay away and started again when I had Josh, and began working from home, and well, got a TIVO. Yup, now you all think soap watching, bon bon eating, stay at home mom. I’m okay with that.
But it’s over. Guiding Light ends today, after 72 years on the air. That just kinda bums me out.
Do I find another soap? Or give up on them forever?
Fess up, you watch one too, right? Was it Guiding Light, or is it one of the many other soaps that sucks you in?
defying sense
I finally found a new show I’ve really been getting into, ABC’s Defying Gravity, and after only 8 shows they’ve canceled it. Come on ABC, you started it in August, never promoted it, and never gave it a chance! What did you expect from the ratings? Dang. Ron Livingston deserves better treatment than that. Maybe we’ll get lucky and SyFy will pick it up?
never forget
I thought about just reprinting my post from last year today but that seemed lazy. I thought writing something new about how my feeling haven’t changed but it’s just too hard to talk about again.
I think all I really need to tell you is that even 8 years later every time a plane flies over my house on the way to or from the airport, just for a split second I wonder if it will blow up. I stop and watch as an apparition of a fireball appears in the sky. And as quick as it came the thought goes away and all is normal again.
I just can’t forget.
busy stuff and blood
I’m thinking, I’m thinking. Nope. All I’ve got is bullets.
- It’s only been a couple of days of school and already Josh has a cold. It’s going to be a long year.
- I might need to buy stock in Airborne. I swear by that stuff.
- The amount of work I have seems to grow exponentially with my free time. That’s good and bad.
- The only time I have to relax each day is while I wait for the bus to arrive in the afternoon. I bring a book and sit by the side of the road. No, really.
- I ran 3 times last week, and on Friday I beat my time by almost 2 minutes. I also kinda made my abdominal muscles freak out, twinging and spasming all weekend but it’s fine now.
- I walked my route today and plan to again tomorrow. I’d rather get a walk in every morning instead of worrying that I’m hurting myself by running too soon.
- I have company coming tomorrow night, squee! But, oh dear, my house. Good thing she’s known me a very long time and is practiced in overlooking my lack of housekeeping abilities.
- Soccer starts this week with practices on Thursday evenings and games on Saturdays. Damon and I are splitting this up again with me handling practices while he takes all the games. He’s a good man!
- I’m donating blood and volunteering at the Red Cross this Saturday, helping with a charity yard sale next Saturday, and running another event the Saturday after that. I’m tired just thinking about it.
- Did I mention I got talked into being president of a local women’s organization? I think all my Saturdays are booked for the whole year already. It’s a good thing I love these people.
I’m just curious, do any of you give blood? Apparently only about 5% of the US population regularly donates blood. Did you know that if only 1% more gave blood there wouldn’t be any blood shortages? The volunteer coordinator at my local Red Cross told me that last time our group worked there. It’s stuck with me ever since.
I know not everyone can donate, health-wise, but if you can and you don’t, think about trying it. It’s not as hard as it sounds, I promise. And now I’ll get off my soapbox.
- The cat wants me to snuggle with him. He’s insistent on trying to lay across my arms while I type.
- I have to stop typing now - it’s an offer I can’t refuse! Even if I wanted to.
first first
Josh’s first day of first grade was yesterday. (Wednesday.) Finally!
He needed to go back to school to keep that big brain of his occupied. Not that I mind having him around! That’s not it at all, I love the time I spend with him, it’s just that I can’t play with him all that much and it’s hard to come up with enough to do to keep him busy so I can get my work done on deadline. There are only so many age appropriate chapter books out there for 6 year old boys, and I can only fit so many Legos into my house!
Anyway, we’ve both been looking forward to school starting but there was something we didn’t anticipate. That is how much he would miss me by being at school all day long.
He cried. At lunch. Hard enough that he ended up eating with the new Vice Principal in his office instead of with the other kids. Because he missed his mom. Me. Because he wanted to have lunch with me. All together now: awwwww!!
I only found out because a friend of mine was volunteering in the first grade lunchroom yesterday and sent me an email as a heads up before school let out. I tried to prod Josh to tell me about it when he got home but he refused to discuss it.
It didn’t help that the bus was an hour (an HOUR!!) late bringing him home. Major bus fiasco that I can’t even try to explain because I still don’t quite get it myself. Seriously, I spent and hour and fifteen minutes waiting at the bus stop, knowing he’d already cried at least once. Ugh.
Today was a little better. He told me he only cried a little at lunch and he stayed with his classmates the whole time. He also said that he made a friend. (Yay! None of his friends from last year are in the same class this year so he has to make new friends.) And the bus was only a half hour late dropping him off. Only a half hour. (So yes, I waited at the bus stop for 45 minutes! Grrrr!)
Anyway we got some great first day of school pics:
When did he get so tall??
And ridiculously cute too. This smile slays me every time I see it:
Cute little bugger.
But this was the picture he really wants everyone to see:
Gee, I wonder why! He’s very proud of that backpack!
Even though I have bedhead this one might just be my favorite:
I think I’ve said it before, but I really love this kid.
(And just to clarify - he’s one step up from me! He’s tall but he’s not that tall.)