A Slight Hiccup
Puck sat down to breakfast at about eight o’clock. Although I suppose it would be nearer the truth to say that breakfast sat down to him. Him and the cardboard network of inventions he had built up around him in a particular flurry of creativity.
“My imagination is really powerful right now,” he explained, busily cutting away at the cardboard. Later in the afternoon he confirmed his hard work by informing me that, “Cardboard is the best material on Earth.”
Well, let’s be fair; he said “Earf,” not “Earth.” Still always working on those th’s.
Anyway, minutes before Puck and I planned to leave – he was meeting his Sunday School class at church for a non-curricular field trip to the Magic House – Rose called me. Via the Snicketts grapevine, I was soon doused with reports about ambulances and paramedics. Turns out Carrie-Bri was, in fact, not turning purple from lack of air as I was beginning to imagine. Nothing quite so dramatic. However, due to a current case of the flu and a somewhat difficult experience at the Walgreen’s Take Care clinic, an ambulance had been called. But in the end, Carrie protested the ambulance ride in favor of the nearby Urgent Care center where she was prescribed an inhaler.
By the time all this news had been confirmed, it was one o’clock. Puck had been picked up and deposited by a car-ful of Curly, Lulu, Gloria, and Elvis. Worked through a quick lunch of Saltines and mozzarella for lunch, and gone again to pick up the Puckster.
The Magic House had been a success. Puck told me tales of grilled cheese and popsicles, Lego packs from the gift shop and a polished quartz rock dyed green. Although as we were checking out at the library about twenty minutes later, he informed the librarian that he was positive the stone in question was a real emerald.
Dinner already.
Puck engorged on chicken breast, sweet potato slathered in butter, and banana and clementines for dessert while watching another installment of the old Herbie films. This time set in Monte Carlo. Crackers watched grumpily from her latest “couch”, one of Puck’s old dresser drawers he had lined with a baby bee Halloween costume from early childhood.
Cold night out, warm and fun times in.