Happy Everything

Saturday, June 18, 2011
In which various celebrations are celebrated…

5:02am.
Perfect silence.
Then…
That unearthly wailing whirr.
Even before the thunder.
Elsewhere, Judah was probably grumbling, while people like Babe Ruth and Collette’s brothers were likely standing in the front lawn, searching for rotation.
Down to the basement.
The Channel 5 Weather Man opened Pandora’s Box when he gave out the office number to encourage civilian weather updates. Somehow, Collette couldn’t wonder if he hadn’t just set himself up for trouble.
Poor Allison Pi; an unexpected early wake-up call for her wedding day.

Over at the Silverspoon’s…
OLeif was given a shoe shine kit for his birthday.
Izzy, who was to be 18 on Tuesday, was given his choice of music or games from OLeif.
And Theodore was given a selection of short-sleeved collared shirts. He obliged with a brief fashion show. After option number three…
“It makes your eyes pop!” OLeif joked.
“That’s the thyroid,” Gloria teased.
And Puck got his full share of being swung around in an old comforter by Izzy…
“That was crazy! Let’s do it again!” he squealed.
After grass-fed beef, chicken, pork steaks, fajitas, etc., for lunch, the boys went to the movies to see The Green Lantern.
Gloria, Collette, and Puck left to pick up Aldi supplies for dirt cake and to drop off several of the graduation photo CDs.
After pork steaks, potatoes, and some quick singing and candles around the cake, they departed at six o’clock, as Puck had been awake since five that morning.
And Theodore, Gloria, and Izzy left for Izzy to be awarded his Ambassadors of Harmony academic scholarship.

“A number of years ago when our children were young, they were exposed to measles. Our family physician suggested that they be given inoculations to protect them. As he was administering the ‘shots’, I asked him how the medication would act, and he replied, ‘This will give them a light case of measles, so mild that no one will be able to detect it, but enough so they will not contract the real thing.’… Satan’s tactic is to give some people so light a case of Christianity that they will never get the real thing. Hence it is imperative for us to discern true fruit from artificial fruit, and thus deliver ourselves and others from the judgment, ‘I never knew you.’”
– John W. Sanderson, The Fruit of the Spirit