Staring at the page....

Doesn't seem to be inspiring me.

I am guessing it's time for one of 'those' posts.
Where I ramble. And say stuff that makes you go 'huh?'

Yes, I know. The smart assy among you are wondering how that's different from my usual.

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Got things taken to work Monday morning for our spy/detective week.
Put them in the back room. With other stuff in the back room. The back room is pretty full already.

What was I thinking????

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I took a nap on Monday. I needed it, I think I woke up at the wrong stage of sleep at 5. Hate when that happens, seems to color the whole rest of the day.

But even with the lack of sleep and the nap that was over before I was done because I REALLY had to pee, I think I had a better day than the deer my parents hit with their car on Friday night.

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Mom had the injections in her spine, and they were heading home from the appointment. She sees a doctor in Central Oregon and they have to drive about three hours to get there.

So after a day of needles and pain and all, my dad was driving.

He wasn't going very fast, maybe about 35 he said, since it was dark and that's when the deer are out, and the deer just jumped right out in front of them.

About 2 grand worth of damage to the front of their Explorer. Airbags did NOT deploy. Neither of my parents were harmed. It wasn't a horrible jolt, Mom said.

I'm sure the dead deer would disagree.
Deader than a shitbug as my grandma used to say.
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Reese* got a haircut over the weekend.
Makes him look like he's 12.
He hates it.

Or he DID hate it, until I told him that he looked about 12. Then, he preened. And I heard him ask several other kids, "Doesn't my haircut make me look older?"

Kids are funny.

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Eddie*, age 6, is having some social issues. He has a hard time making friends because he's impulsive, jumps into stuff that other people are doing, and sometimes he thinks it's a good way to join in by doing little impish things to get the attention of the other kids.

He's a neat little kid, he just isn't great with social skills yet.

He's been working on it.

On Monday morning, some of the other kids were building a marble run. He walked over, watched a minute, then said politely, "Can I play, too?"

The other kids said sure, and he joined them.

Elizabeth* (also age 6) came and sat next to me a little later.

"I think someone is teaching Eddie manners," she said, thoughtfully.

:-D

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I have to go buy more peroxide today. I played with the science experiment a little too much, but I wanted to make sure it would all work according to plan.

We tried several different bottle sizes and shapes. And different colors. And once I tried it, I had to do it again. Because it's sort of cool and I still really haven't grown up.

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I helped Joe* (another of my 6 year olds) make a mustache out of yarn on Monday.

Part of our spy week stuff is for them to make a disguise and get their photos taken. He used white boucle yarn. It is hysterical to see it on him, I wish I could show you.

When I offered him a piece of masking tape to attach it he said, "Well YEAH... I wasn't gonna STAPLE it on!!"

A lot of my kids have become sort of smart assy.

I'm a professional bad influence.

I'm also ready to brush, flush and wash. Because I get up at 5.
Have I mentioned that?