Challenge Me

Tuesdays spin by fast now.

After recording immunization records and administering chewable Tylenol for a rolled ankle in the office, I was gone again by 11:30.

My noon check-in at Ditto left me for two hours, with mostly my own thoughts for companions, in the back room sorting stacks of clothes and…

“Want a book on bear attacks?” another volunteer held up the donation for inspection.

I declined. Although in retrospect, it sounded like a perfect Christmas gift for Rose.

Eventually the store manager walked back with a thermos of – presumably – coffee.

“You doing okay back here? If you get bored or lonely, come up front and we’ll find something else for you to do.”

I had to smile at myself.

Puck marched down the hall with his class for pick-up, pausing only to give me the latest scoops on Mary and her antics.

“Mary almost choked me today. Seriously.”

I told him we’d talk later.

In the car on the drive home while Puck finished some clementines, he posed his own riddle for me.

“I have an important question for you, Mom. What’s between the Earf (Earth) and the sun?”

“Planets?”

“No.”

“Asteroids?”

“No.”

“I give up. What?”

“Space.”

I had to high-five him on stumping ole Mom.

Back home, Puck worked on spelling. When I looked up at the white board, I read his progress:

“I fnod fo you?”

“No, Mom! I am FOND of you!”

Then when I told him he should take off his stocks because they stunk like nothing else, he had this observation for me…

“My socks smell … sincerely scrumptious.”