Jumble of Thoughts
In Ecclesiastes 11:1 it says roughly “Cast your bread upon the waters and you will find it after many days.” I keep being astonished at how kind and wonderful people are to our family. Everywhere I turn someone is doing something kind for us. The thought keeps coming to me that this is our bread from past years coming back to us. Only I’m fairly certain that we didn’t throw out this much bread. It seems odd, and somehow backwards, that we should be so greatly blessed for living a lifestyle that so many people only dream of having. I won’t pretend there aren’t hard bits and stressful bits, but it seems like every time we run up against one of them, a friend is right there to help us over.
In semi-related news, I’m going to get to go to a segment of LTUE. Thursday morning a friend/neighbor has volunteered to watch my kids so that I can go watch Howard sit on a panel with all sorts of famous people. The headliner there is Jerry Pournelle. I may actually get a chance to meet him. If nothing else I’ll get to be with Howard for an hour or so sans kids. Maybe lunch will even be involved. The only problem is that, like Cinderella, my time will be limited. I will almost certainly have to dash out in the middle of something very interesting. Oh well. At least I get to go.
Completely unrelated to the prior two thoughts is the fact that we watched Monsters Incorporated today. When that movie hit the theaters Link was a toddler and I found the character Boo to be impossibly advanced for a toddler. It seemed like no toddler could be that alert/aware/verbal so young. I watched it again when gleek was 2 and realized that Boo was actually fairly realistic. Today I watched Boo and thought “she ought to be able to talk better than that.” Patches is “Boo-aged” and he is the chattiest of my kids. Not only is he chatty, but he is very determined to prounouce things correctly. I love it. I love talking with him and watching him get smarter every day.
That’s the end of my thoughts for today. I’ve been too busy dealing with sick and messy house and tired to post regularly. I guess I was saving up.