May 2
Sunday, May 2, 2010
After the first service, Puck presented a special gift for Baby Hesed to ‘Mr. Judah’. Judah opened it to find a used copy of Rain (as the book was no longer in print). And they looked through the pictures together.
At the house, Joe was talking to Puck about ‘The Hamburger Monster’. So when Collette was reading Bible stories to him shortly later, she asked about the picture of Moses looking up to the sky.
“What does he see up there?” she asked him.
“He sees dah Hamburger Monster,” said Puck seriously.
Shortly after noon, while Collette picked up OLeif from the second service, and Joe fed the Puckster lunch, the rest of the family returned from Kansas City.
It had been a good trip. They had seen Great Uncle Roger, who was surprised by their visit, and so happy to see them again. He was doing well, already in his mid-80’s. Then Brit, Lilli, Liselotte, and Mary had joined them at Great Aunt Rebecca’s for fried chicken.
“I drew a tattoo on Carrie,” said Rose, when asked for further details of the trip. “Aw, she washed it off. It had hearts on it and everything.”
There might also have been something about a pillow fight as well…
“Pillow fights don’t work on me,” said Rose. “I just go to sleep.”
Meanwhile, Rose was talking about visiting a certain town on the East Coast that had been abandoned after a coal mine caught fire beneath it.
“I think they said there’s enough fuel down there to keep it burning for a thousand years,” she said.
Lunch was a fancy sort of salad that OLeif volunteered to make. Collette even ate a few mouthfuls while the kids sat around the table and watched the first clips of Andy’s new Planet Earth. Penguins.
“Can you imagine Rose out there in that huddle of penguins?” Joe asked with a laugh. “’Move over! Move over! I’m cold!’”
“They should just put a giant cardboard box out there so they can all stay inside it out of the wind,” said Francis.
“Where would they get the box?” OLeif asked him.
“They should just build a cardboard factory out there. And then they’d have something to burn too.”
Not long later, Collette and Rose left for some necessary grocery shopping, which also included a stop by Target. In the parking lot, they saw Magnus (the second time that week), who was busy purchasing a new iPod.
And then to Dierberg’s where Rose stocked up for lunch items for the week, including honey roasted peanuts, which she and Collette later prematurely snacked on while looking over various paperwork.
Meanwhile, OLeif had ripped his pants playing frisbee with Joe, Rose, Puck, and Francis playing ‘monkey in the middle’, and spent the following hour sewing them up in the basement.
That night, OLeif arranged all of Puck’s blankets while Collette brushed his teeth. When Puck came in to see his bed, he got a huge grin on his face and said, ‘It looks so beautiful!’