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No Comments It’s Been a WEEK
To be fair, though, I kind of knew it would be–my oldest had appointments on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and on Tuesday I helped with the elementary school’s vision screening from 8:45-ish to almost noon. Plus I spent Saturday morning at Instacare with my oldest, whose hands wouldn’t stop shaking. (This turned out to be a blessing, because both the nurse and the doctor were almost shockingly wonderful–they listened, considered, and gave us ideas for directions in which to go.) That oldest now has an ADHD diagnosis and a new medication to try, plus blood work that we’re hoping to get the results of today. We’ll see, right?
In the meantime, we also spent last Friday afternoon pulling out the garden, since it was going to get down to a low enough temperature over the weekend to threaten the tomatoes. We therefore have a dining room table half covered in produce and I’ve frozen 5 plus quart bags of tomatoes so far; I also made two more batches of pear freezer jam this week, since the pears were starting to get iffy. Thank heavens we didn’t have dance in the evenings! (It was our dance teacher’s school district’s fall break.)
Alrighty. Today is my first day this week of nothing but usual commitments–picking up my elementary schooler, taking kids to piano lessons, etc.–and I am over the moon. I also finished listening to Flying Lessons & Other Stories last night, and I’m excited to review it and get it out of my room. (It’ll probably just head downstairs to my girls’ room, but that’s okay.) It’s the second ‘We Need Diverse Books’ anthology that I’ve read, although I believe it was published first, and while I’m not sure I loved it as much as I loved The Hero Next Door, it was still completely enjoyable and totally worth your time. It’s got stories about athletes–one in a wheelchair–and nerds and outcasts and pirates PLUS people of different colors and backgrounds, and features at least six Newbery authors. What’s not to appreciate, right? Oddly enough, the two basketball stories were among my favorites–not that basketball’s odd, you understand, but I was an unathletic band geek in high school–but I enjoyed pretty much all of them, and the concept behind both WNDB and this anthology matters.
You should definitely give it a try.