nothing to write about

WARNING: this is going to be one of those posts where I ramble...wait, that's EVERY post...  HAHAHA

It's Friday night, we're 30 minutes from leaving for some FOOTBALL.  I know I usually talk about soccer (the game I'm sure Jesus would want to play) but tonight I'm going to talk about the wonderful magic that happens during FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.

The thrill of the drumline, the way the Kittens sparkle, the perky little cheerleaders and increasingly growing to love all things about the Temple WILDCATS.  The fans, the stadium, all of it. 

I can't wait!  Let's go CATS!

Silent Tribute

As the scenes of 9/11 are re-lived through television and web news/documentaries and as I take media inquiries on how we are beginning to include lessons about 9/11 into our curriculum, I stop to remember those horrible days 10 years ago. 

How can we objectively present an event that scarred our collective psyche just 10 years ago?  I remember the moment it happened.  I know what I smelled, what I heard, who I was with, where we were going...I remember crying until my eyes were red and swollen.  I remember not being able to get through on the phone to the folks back in Texas (we were on the East Coast), I remember the sick feeling when I realized we should have been in the World Trade Center tower 2 when the plane hit but changed our plans that morning.

Munchkin just turned 9.  Last weekend, there was a host of shows about 9/11 on tv and, naturally, she asked about it.  I got out the newspapers and Time magazine I kept and looked through some of the pictures with her.  I told her about Flight 93 and the courageous passengers who fought to the end.  I told her about driving past the Pentagon just 24 hours before and having no idea what was coming. 

How can I really explain what that day did to us as a nation? 
How can I tell her in a way that honors those who died that day? 

I imagine our grandparents pondering the same things about Pearl Harbor. 

Idiot dog

We have a horse. He's a moron. I love him. Dangit.

Oh, and he smells.

wordle.net

So I found a website today that I am in LURVE with!  www.wordle.net.  You can enter a string of words and it will create a "wordle" for you.  Like this one:

Isn't that the COOLEST thing you've ever seen?  Yes, I think so too. 

This is where you nod your head and agree with me (or you shake your head because I'm a hopeless dork.). 

OOF!

2nd Day of school and my feet and legs are KILLING me! 

That being said, I've been to 8 campuses so far.  Tomorrow, I'll go to the southside campuses and snap pictures and video.  It's been a good start.  I'm ready to settle down a little bit, though, and get into some kind of routine. 

I'm tired too.  Did I mention that?  I went home yesterday and sweetpea sat in my living room while I napped.  I felt awful for falling asleep when I was so eager to visit but I could. not. keep. my. eyes. open. 

I found two new projects.  I'm excited too.  A pair of sisters with sparks in their eyes.  There is something special there that, I think, just hasn't been discovered yet.  It's going to be a good year. 

circus job wanted

I'm ready for a job herding elephants.  I'm just sayin'. 

Spotty

Princess Crybaby had a spotty week. It started out well enough. Sunday, we went to Summer Fun with about half our church. By Wednesday, she was running a fever. Thinking it was teething, we started advil to keep her comfortable. Going into Thursday, she started refusing food, preferring an occasional bottle. Still going with the teething theory, I figured her gums were sore. I knew she wasn't getting dehydrated and I wasn't all that worried about the not eating.

Friday, the fever was gone but we noticed a small number of bumps on her legs and a runny nose. Now I knew we had something other than teething. Saturday morning, (Matt's birthday) the rash had spread all over her legs, onto her arms and her palms and soles of her feet. She was amazingly grumpy and had a really gross diaper, despite ating very little in the past few days. Have I mentioned how much I love google? I put in all her symptoms and came up with roseola; a virus. The symptoms matched. I wasn't alarmed, it's pretty minor and passes quickly, but I knew we needed to go to the doctor. The daycare would take one look at those bumps and freak out.

Fortunately, our pediatrician was working the walk-in clinic. He took one look at her and said it was Hand, Foot and Mouth. Same type of illness as roseola, so I was close. He said she was already on the back-end of it and would be fine for school Monday.

Apparently, if roseola is the harmless cousin of measles, hand-foot-mouth is the harmless cousin of chicken pox. It is called a "summer disease" and is easily spread in swimming pools. It is harmless and passes quickly.

Thank goodness.