Wednesday May 7th, 2008 @ 9:58 pm by Melissa
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Tuesday May 6th, 2008 @ 11:09 pm by Melissa
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Tuesday May 6th, 2008 @ 9:49 pm by Melissa
Owen was much better today, so he went (fairly) happily back to school. Suggesting he wear his new Iron Man t-shirt and shorts helped.
After he was off to school I got a haircut, worked, played with 4 - make that 5 - cats while working on my friend Laura’s computer. Bijoux, the fifth, suddenly appeared on a rocking chair behind me as I was writing a note to Laura asking where the darn fifth cat was.

I decided to bring her computer back home with me, as we have a video card here that might better fix her problem and suit her well. Hopefully she didn’t mind me running off with her computer. She’ll have it back Thursday, fixed. (hopefully!)
After Laura’s I went to Trader Joe’s and picked up some great hummus (with tahini; I can’t believe they actually make tahini-free hummus!) and some shortbread cookies with a blob of chocolate on top of each one. My God was it all good. Not together, of course.
I ran home, dropped off the Trader Joe’s stuff and let Layne out. Then I picked Owen up at school. He told me excitedly of a book he got at school in the library, Airman, by Eoin Colfer. Proudly, he told me he’s almost finished with the Prologue already, even though it’s 17 pages long. He’s also still reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4); he seems to have no problem reading multiple books at once.
We came back home and read a different book, Escape from the Carnival of Horrors (Give Yourself Goosebumps), together under the patio umbrella, eating snacks I’d made. It’s like a Choose-Your-Own Adventure book, so I read while he chose the different ways for us to go through the story.
Awhile after that, I went inside to make dinner while Owen played an imaginary game in and outside. He was ‘destroying zombies’ and other such creatures with the help of ‘army men and police officers.’ The way he explained it, it was sort-of tied in to the book we’d been reading, although there were no zombies, army men or police officers in the book. Regardless, he was running all over the place defeating them. There were many casualties.
Michael came home and we all ate dinner. Afterwards we went to the Y to exercise — Owen played in Prime Time. We went back up to get him and found him playing DDR while 3 kids watched him. Too cute and funny. We got home just before Owen’s bedtime.
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Monday May 5th, 2008 @ 10:26 pm by Melissa
Owen’s had a cold and cough since last week Wednesday or Thursday. Yesterday it was worsening, and when he woke up this morning, you could hear the cough deep in his lungs. He appeared to feel miserable, and between thinking about that and how his big rattly cough would be infecting kids in his class, I decided he’d stay home from school today. Besides a short trip out for some cough medicine, he spent most of the day snuggled up on the couch.
Michael and I had to do some juggling to allow Owen to spend the day at home, but it worked out well. Michael got back here at lunch and worked from home the rest of the day. When he got here, I left to work at the four different places I was scheduled for today. I called them a few times to check up on Owen, and Owen would say, “I’m doing great! I mean, I’m doing sort-of okay” (followed by a round of fierce hacking).
I couldn’t tell if he got any better during the day or not; near bedtime sounded like his voice might be going, and he was still coughing quite a bit. Hopefully he’ll be well enough to go to school tomorrow, but if not I can fit my work schedule around his, this time without so much help from Michael, for another day.
One other thing - I got to talk to my brother Mike, who’s back from a 3-week work trip to Uganda and Ethiopia, and his wife Eleanor tonight, which was super cool. Hi guys!
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Sunday May 4th, 2008 @ 7:39 pm by Melissa
This morning we did the usual - played, ate breakfast, brushed teeth, got dressed, and those that had homework, got it done.
Next it was time to break out the bikes: The kids got coats on and headed out the door. Michael got the bikes out and ready and got each helmet fitted. I got lunch ready for our return. Then we got Layne (the dog) ready with her new prong collar to keep her from pulling so hard during walks. Then we were off. (Elapsed time: 45 minutes)
The bike ride was great. Three of the kids — two on bikes, one on a scooter — raced ahead to the end of each block, while the other stayed close to us to keep an eye on Layne. At first Layne was too perturbed with her new collar to notice much of anything, but after a little while she started relaxing and enjoying herself. The ride/walk lasted about 30 minutes. Afterwards, we came home for tacos and quesadillas. (We told the kids today was Quatro de Mayo; they looked at us like we were crazy.) Everyone was so hot after the little adventure that we ate outside.
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Saturday May 3rd, 2008 @ 10:08 pm by Melissa
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Friday May 2nd, 2008 @ 10:35 pm by Melissa
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Thursday May 1st, 2008 @ 8:57 pm by Melissa
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Thursday May 1st, 2008 @ 9:24 am by Melissa
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Thursday May 1st, 2008 @ 9:10 am by Melissa
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