Celebrate Again
My kitchen suddenly became Main Street late on a Saturday morning. Puck had collected neighbor friends, two brother-and-sister sets to explore fun times at his home. Crackers immediately attracted attention:
“She might not like you at first,” Anna told the new boy, Rocko.
Eddie added, “And she doesn’t have a very good memory so if you come to Calvin’s, wait a week and then you can see if she likes you.”
Old pros already.
But Rocko had already moved on to the next attraction. “Oh cool! A gong!”
I think it was around this time that Eddie asked me, “Is this house usually a more peaceful house?”
Meanwhile, Rocko’s little sister, Rosie, ran into our bathroom to change into a purple dress she bought at the garage sale down the street. When she emerged wearing it, she walked over to Puck. Clearly trying to impress him with that purple dress.
“See?”
Puck tried to feign polite interest as he shouldered Crackers. “Oh. Yeah.”
Sometimes I can see him as a teenager already.
Little girls can be baffling sometimes. My own sisters weren’t typical little sisters; it was all cowboys, turtles, and tree-climbing. So my experience with sparkles-and-tea-party girls is limited. This time, however, Anna and Rosie wanted to play with Puck’s lab set. Only we were out of food coloring. Rosie insisted that her mom had some, only I had to walk them back to her house so they wouldn’t “be kidnapped.” They stopped by two garage sales on the way back. Traded shoes. Poked soft tar. And of course Rosie’s mom didn’t actually have food coloring. Then Rosie gave me a shocking yellow silk lei. And Anna almost gave me a painting of a barn that she had picked out of a “free box” at the first garage sale. What do you know, despite my lack of ability to relate to six year-old girls, I guess they liked me.
Theodore was napping at the Silverspoon’s while Gloria and Izzy attended wedding number one of the day. Mountains of blueberries and strawberries on the counter lured Puck into feasting. Probably ate his weight in blueberries by the time I noticed.
Theodore received a box of soapstone drinking stones as an early Father’s Day present. For his 30th, El Oso was given a bottle of scotch and an app gift card, which he immediately used on a set of goofy little games.
And in celebration of El Oso’s birthday, we visited Mario’s Cafe & Donuts: good gyros and baklava. Izzy joined us after wedding number two. And Gloria showed us pictures/video of jellyfish and “alien” seaweed from their trip to California.