2007
i am the girl with the velveteen pearl
maura @ 3:36 pm
Hi internets! Sorry to have been ignoring you recently. As usual I’ve got no real good reasons, just a pile of semi-lame ones. I’m nearly at the end of my first summer session and schoolwork has been intense. Gus is nearly at the end of kindergarten (!!!) which means lots of half days and field trips. I’ve got my typical things-will-change-soon malaise, anticipating the real start of summer when Gus will go to camp for the first time and I will have the very last class of my whole degree.
Today Gus is home sick from school — he’s been spiking fevers off and on since yesterday afternoon. But I think he’s feeling better: right now he + Jonathan are using the computer’s camera to take pictures of Gus’s head using weird effects. I have to admit that I don’t mind the fever illnesses nearly as much as others.* Having a fever completely takes the piss out of him, and there are worse ways to spend time than snuggling on the sofa watching the Complete Works of Pixar with your 5 1/2 yr old.
* Barfing. There’s nothing good about barfing. And pinkeye is just awful: he can’t be around other kids but usually isn’t sick enough to want to lie around on the sofa all day.
And that’s about all I have to say. I’m still ruminating on a post about grades and competition, but I’m too tired after last night’s fever watch to do it now.
I leave you with the state of things in our house.
