The Week Continues
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
In which Collette bakes bread for the first time in a very long while…
An early phone call was put out to OLeif by Puck that morning. He had important notes to relay.
“I was dreaming about the Dough Monster, Daddy. I slept for a whole… whole… whole… for a whole whole day!”
The morning was spent in…
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devotions from Dad who still sent them every morning, even when abroad
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further readings of various cultures in which Puck remembered the bones from an ancient French burial they had discussed the previous afternoon… ‘Why was he
buried there with meat and tools, Mama?’ -
baking heavy rice bread, which was quite tasty after all and was pretty amazing toasted with butter
In the afternoon…
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windows open to the fresh, cool air
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an indoor walk
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Puck jumping endlessly from the piano bench to the couch to ‘practice to show [his] baby brother’
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bath for Puck
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a little Shirley Temple
OLeif returned from another long day at work, and class, after which he and Puck relaxed together with a game of Minecraft and ‘Pa’.
Theodore and Gloria arrived to pick up their case of raw organic sharp white cheddar cheese from Whole Foods, as Theodore was on an even stricter diet than Collette.
And some ridiculous SNL with OLeif over Smucker’s Natural Peanut Butter.
And Mom and Dad were at sea…
Those Who Do Not Study History Are Doomed
It is so hard to read about the glories
of growing cotton in the ante bellum
South, when my Northern teeth sit idle in
my contemporary empty mouth.
The past was last night’s double fudge
delight.
And I can almost taste the present
as my chocolate bar melts under a fading
Southern sun.
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