Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

I hope everyone had a good one. We spent Sunday afternoon and evening in Clearfield with family, and Saturday was a mix of my son’s intro to flag football (we got texts about teams Sunday) and Prom for my oldest. In the meantime, I finished reading Faith Erin Hicks’ One Year at Ellsmere, which seems to have been published previously as The War at Ellsmere. It went almost shockingly fast–as in, I tucked it into the bathroom drawer but also read it in bed a bit one night and was therefore done in two days–and up until the fantastical deus ex machina (which is briefly foreshadowed early on), it’s a standard poor-kid-in-a-rich-school-with-mean-queen-bee story. That doesn’t mean it’s not a fun read, I have to say–Faith Erin Hicks has chops–but only the plot logistics really need to be discovered. Still, I imagine my graphic novel lovers will be fans, right? And there’s certainly a DON’T BE MEAN message, which is always a good thing in this world.

In other news, my son had his first flag football practice tonight, and since it’s at a totally fun local park, his siblings and three cousins came along to recreate while he was practicing. Which means people should sleep well tonight, right? Let’s hope I do, too…