06 MAY 26
About the time I’ve too eagerly hit snooze for the third time that morning... Patience is chatting at hurricane speed in my ear... then spins over to Oxbear because I guess I’m not responsive enough yet...
“You what now?”...
“Can I read this book I found?... it’s on your Kindle and I want to get it please PLEASE... it’s called Poison’s Kiss... please please PLEASE!!”...
After Oxbear has stamped a solid NO on that request... Patience is lightly sulking at the breakfast table while Yali is yell-laughing from down the hall on the VR... chasing gorillas from England and Sweden and elsewhere...
We’ve shoveled out a morning of good work and meetings and volunteering between us... Yali in the sneakers he liberally fabric-painted the night before after lights out... metallic gold Greek blue bubblegum pink and tomato soup red... one of the girls at the school tells him she likes his kicks...
Now we’re home again and the kids have only spilled their ramen twice so far at lunch...
“Yali stop mooing at your sister and watch Wishbone... he’s doing Mark Twain today”...
And by the time Puck leaves to clean and stack antique brick at his aunt’s and uncle’s property in Dutchtown... Yali and Patience have finished learning about aviation and are now busy presenting me with an 80s fashion show in the living room including possibly the worst British accent I’ve ever heard... courtesy Patience...
After Patience then sloshes some more ramen over her wrists scooting dishes to the kitchen... Yali and I leave for the dentist while he distracts himself from all tooth-related fears with a viewing of “Howl’s Moving Castle” in the minivan...
We’re home two hours later with a relieved Yali... a Patience studio-ready for “candy salad” day... Oxbear concluding work meetings for school board meeting before driving to church committee meeting... toss out some plates of pork chops for dinner... and Puck is concluding hour four of scratching old mortar off old brick under the spreading branches of a great avian toilet before once again hitting the gym...
Daily damage report (EF2)...
- Clay tray dumped (One)
- Ramen spilled (Three)
- Toe burnt by ramen (One)
- Bird splat (Two)
