New and Improved
We have advanced through the stages of illness. Gleek is no longer lying limply on the couch watching movie after movie. Now she is wandering listlessly through the house saying “I’m booooored!” Alternately, she curls up into a little ball of sadness and sniffles “I really want to go to a friend’s house.” At least today actually included food consumption by both Gleek and Patches. Patches is still in the lying on the couch and sleeping lots phase of this illness. Gleek won’t be going back to school tomorrow. This means she’ll be missing the valentine’s day kindergarten hoopla. I’m not too worried about it though because her teacher assures me that they’ll collect all her valentines and send them home with a neighbor child. So tomorrow we’ll have boredom mixed with a sugar high. Won’t that be fun?
Fortunately this particular bout with illness was greatly relieved by the arrival by mail of a dvd full of Zobomafoo episodes. Many thanks to the kind Schlock fan who sent that to us. The kids have already watched them all. Three times each. Zobomafoo can make lying on the couch with a fever bearable.
Another wonderful thing which arrived yesterday were some concept sketches for the children’s book that I wrote. They are beautiful. I know that the final pictures will look somewhat different from these sketches, but the sketches are so perfect, so true to the spirit of the story, that they make me cry. The words by themselves accomplished what I needed them to, they told a story that Gleek needed to hear. But with these pictures the book is going to be amazing and better than I could have hoped. I’m so grateful that this artist is willing to devote so much time and effort to the project. Waiting three months for all the pictures to be done is going to be hard. I want to see them all now.
At least Nancy and I have hammered out a probable schedule for LTUE which allows both of us to be at the panels we want to attend while never leaving kids unattended. I’m looking forward to getting out of the house after being cooped up with a pair of sick children for 4 days. Thus far no one else seems to be catching it. Hopefully things will stay that way.