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Puck walked in for breakfast where I showed him the difference in color between cage-free egg yolks and pastured egg yolks. Puck, of course, preferred the orange over the yellow. Inside the pastured egg carton was a slip of paper featuring that farm’s “Bird of the Week”: Petunia. Puck thought that was pretty funny.

“Petunia made your breakfast this morning, Puck.”

He giggled.

Before I got busy answering phones and bunching report card envelopes at the school office – plugged with staff members all decked out in Cardinals t-shirts – the art teacher walked in to tell me about her daughter’s current crush on Puck.

“Don’t worry,” she assured me. “She won’t kiss him or anything.”

Later, a pre-K red-headed boy in trouble for throwing a book at his classmate sat swinging his legs on a small chair, staring at me.

“The Cardinals scored three goals last night,” he told me solemnly.

Sorted about twenty bags of donations at Ditto, including a stack of boys’ monogrammed polos. Unless there are any other ten year-olds in Kirkwood with the initials P.G.E. or C.R.E., I doubt they’re selling.

Carrie texted me later in the evening. Apparently Mom was cracking down on Dad eating his veggies and greens. She was forcing Dad into a small portion of spinach for dinner.

To which Dad replied, “This is the hardest thing I’ve done in my life. I feel like Nebuchadnezzar.”

El Oso walked in that night with some groceries and an additional item for Puck: superhero underpants. Justice League. Puck was pretty tickled.

NLCS Game 3

St. Louis Cardinals @ San Francisco Giants

3:00 pm

This post-season has been ridiculous. I’ve never heard of so many consecutive close games involving crazy plays. Anyway, we took the hit tonight. I’m sure they plan to reverse that tomorrow.

Cardinals: 1

Giants: 2