It Strikes Again
Saturday, March 3, 2012
The weather had taken a shine to Collette’s throat once again and dull aches, fatigue.
But mothers of four year-olds don’t take sick days.
So Collette wrote Carrie in the earlier part of the morning to check on Puck, who had spent the night at the house…
“How’s it going over there?”
“Good. I’m trying to convince Puck to start a cheek pinching business with me where people pay me to pinch his cheeks.”
“Sounds like a lucrative business to me.”
“Well he just told me to email you back and tell you to pick him up because he is NOT starting the business with me.”
“Ha ha!”
“Don’t say ‘ha ha ha’, and bring me home!” – Puck
Saturdays were somehow always the coldest day of the week.
So out into the coldest day they went to OLeif’s 10:30 eye appointment. It had been a few years… He emerged from the little building with a “retro” pair of shades on the order.
Puck was waiting for them in the parking lot outside the supplement super store where he was exchanged for a trip to Target: black track pants, skinny jeans – to accent his belly, two short-sleeved polos, one in navy and the other in sky blue. On the way out, two boxes of Girl Scout cookies: Thin Mints and peanut buttery Tag-Alongs.
For his services during tax season, Theodore was gifted a Dalwhinnie scotch older than Linnea, originating in the “bleak, windswept Highland pastures”.
“Oh, you could have bought Turbo Tax for that!” Gloria laughed.
“But it wouldn’t have been nearly as much fun,” Theodore chuckled.
The Legos were out. Collette built a ball bearing obstacle course for Puck, who was busy building his own version for a marble.
Following lunch, Puck was given his first experience with The Black Stallion, during which he made block towers from scrap pieces of wood that Theodore had given him from his shop. Collette nursed her aching neck/head with the patched red cloth rice bag, and an ibuprofen, while Theodore napped, Gloria ran errands, and OLeif completed further studies.
In the early part of the evening, Gloria returned with two books from a book signing with Dr. Stephen Manoj Thompson at a nearby consignment shop, and two Papa Murphy’s Pizza.