28 APR 26
Yali’s wrapped in stacks of chains plastic and metal and silicone awareness bracelets getting all sneaky with the box of Buc-ee’s fudge from Oklahoma for breakfast slammin’ back as much as he can before I notice... “Quit that Yali” // “But Mom!!”...
Oxbear calls during Math driving home from an early meeting with a friend to discuss logistics... “Guys stop talking... I can’t hear Dad... so the muffler repair’s only going to cost $400?”... Oxbear keeps talking quotes and I realize that the kids have opened up an American Sign Language book and are attempting to communicate with it... but the sign language they’re using I’m pretty sure exists in no known sign language vocabulary... then by the time Yali starts whirling around a folding chair matador-style as if his sister is an angry bull... it’s time to get off the call...
Ten minutes later Yali’s multiplying fractions through a Spiderman mask while Patience is complaining about feeling lightheaded... a symptom that curiously vanishes as soon as Math has concluded...
The rest of the morning scrunches into studies on cotton plants and “Pride & Prejudice” and a visit to the orthodontist where Patience is introduced to those tiny rubber-bands on hooks for the first time in her one year and eight months of braces... she is not impressed...
Then we’re back home to pack in some Seneca captive Molly Jemison and juvenile prodigy wizard Harry Potter before Patience and I are driving through cold raindrops to the studio for her first class as an OC level Irish dancer...
Some hours later we’re all sitting around with bowls of Oxbear’s carnitas and rice with the added works and some Fritos to make them walking tacos... “Did you know that lemons are manmade?” Puck randomly notes while researching Youtube for anthropology video essays... “They were created as hybrids in China like four thousand years ago...” // “No I didn’t know that...” Oxbear replies while tapping my childhood ship-in-a-bottle upside-down on the dinner table to loosen the... CRACK!... “Uh... how is that glass so THIN?”...
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Daily damage report (EF1)...
Cat vomit, left by cat (One)
Pork steak bone swallowed whole, by dog (One)
Antique ship-in-a-bottle, broken by Oxbear (One)
Bottle of pink lady apple kombucha, frozen and exploded by refrigerator (One)
