My Week

I haven't been blogging so much lately. I just haven't had anything to say. But here's how my week has been going. It's been unusually eventful.

We saw a ballet, which the boys' almost-sister had a nice part in. She danced beautifully! The boys helped for a couple of days with sets. My contribution was that I tried to keep Miss M out of the way. On the big day, I dressed Miss M in a pretty lace dress and pink buckled shoes. She loved the dancing and the costumes! But she got blisters on both ankles from her pretty pink buckled shoes. She never complained about it, I didn't even know until I took the shoes off against her will. She loves shoes. So, to avoid anything rubbing against her ankles, I bought her a pair of rainboots just like her best friend's. I'd been meaning to get her a pair anyway. These don't rub her ankles, and she LOVES them! She's put them on and taken them off repeatedly for two days! Now she has something to put on her feet while her ankles heal. So she went out today with a pink twirly dress, pink pants and black rainboots. At two years old, you can get away with that. ;-)

We went to the library. I was looking for a Ruth Beechick book but it had been checked out already. But there was a display of new books in the computer section that you have to pass through to get to the education section, and Positive Discipline for Preschoolers (by Jane Nelsen) caught my eye. So I took it home instead.

We were also looking for A Winter's Tale video (Shakespeare; they didn't have it) but we came home with a video about Hawaii instead. So, we didn't have to watch the second installment of Texas Ranch House on PBS. We saw the first part of that last night. It seemed like they hand-picked educated, modern-thinking, equality-minded people and stuck them in a ranch house without electricity, then arbitrarily assigned them roles of superior positions and servitude positions. And then strategically placed cameras to catch the fireworks.

We took J to his violin lesson and, while sitting in front of his teacher's house waiting during his lesson, we saw a dog get hit by a car right in front of us. I heard a snap, then saw the dog crawl out from under the wheel of the car and limp off on three legs. The snap was his leg breaking under the wheel. The driver stopped and waited, but, not knowing what to do, I guess, finally drove off after sitting still in the middle of the road for about five minutes. We finally traced the dog to a front screened-in porch. He'd made his way there and pushed the door open, and was inside on the porch growling when anyone approached the porch. We hope it's his own house. The violin teacher said she'd contact the people who lived there.

For the first time, I spent my wedding anniversary apart from dh, who's away tending to a family emergency. I spent our anniversary taking the kids to the pool. Really, it wasn't a bad day at all. Just momentous as our first anniversary apart. We'll make it up next week.

I fixed a slow leak in the kitchen sink. My dishwasher is chipping and cracking glasses again. The van transmission, which has been going for a year but does okay as long as it doesn't go up any long hills, is starting to slip even on level land. We've been more or less limited to staying in town, since going anywhere out of town means going uphill.

I got bit by a tick and got an allergic rash around the site. Of course, my first thought was Lyme disease, but it isn't. The tick wasn't even a deer tick, it was a dog tick. I looked it up online.

I put Miss M on a raisin ban this morning after removing a raisin from each of her nostrils.