The other day Hans was going through a folder in his backpack and came across a little first-grade math test of his. "36 out of 36?!" he exclaimed. "Mom! Do you see this? Look at your boy! He's learning so much!"
He is! He is learning so much. And he is my boy. 💙
Anders makes me laugh often. We occasionally turn on music for after-dinner chores. And I occasionally ... find a new song I like and replay it several times. I had done just that the other day when Anders took over the next song choice. "All right! All right! Let me choose one now! ... Oh! Here's a song you might like." And then ... on comes the same song I'd clearly overplayed. Haha. We all chuckled and heard it through again. Then Anders said, "OK. This one is actually by the same artist that sang that song." And then ... he played the same song again.
Three days ago I began noticing that every time I knelt down to do something--tie a shoe for a kid, put laundry away in a low drawer, tuck in Hans's trundle bed--it would feel like my right knee had knelt right on a pebble or small shard of glass. At first I thought I actually had done that. But after awhile you start to realize you just don't have that many small pebbles or glass shards in your house (nor stuck in the knee of your pants--I checked). My google search pulled up all sorts of things, but I didn't even have to read anything about it to know which of the many things it might be. My eyes immediately saw, "Housemaid's Knee". Ha! Of course that's it. How could it not be?
(And you've all seen the hummingbird pillow Shannon embroidered for us before I think?)
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Well! Funny you should mention savings bonds. They really are the most disappointing things. but JUST THIS VERY MONTH I found some savings bonds from FOREVER ago in my little box of important papers. I think they were, in fact, reflections contest winnings or essay contest or some such thing. So I looked up if they were mature, and they were, and I went into the bank and got $200! $207.13 to be precise (or something like that…to be less precise. So. All those years of waiting PAYING OFF at last. I'm rich! I'm rich! (And a little sad for Abe that he won't learn the value of PATIENCE like I have.)
Also, I LOVE those storm pictures! Scary! But so beautiful! I'm glad you got rescued by Mike.
Also, in "Three Men in a Boat," the main character reads a medical dictionary and one by one determines that he has EVERY ailment in it…_except_ for Housemaid's Knee. I feel very pleased to learn that it's a real thing! And that…you may have it. Haha. Just joking. Not pleased about that. :(
What?!!! $400 dollars?! Well I never. I know I disappointedly received saving’s bonds on probably more than one occasion, but I must have cashed them in or simply thrown them away?! When all along I might have had several hundred dollars at age 47 when our blasted house wasn’t selling! Oh the foolishness of youth.
And every ailment except Housemaid’s Knee. Hahaha! I will say that you really have no clue how often you kneel before kneeling sends a sharp stabbing sensation up your knee! It turns out I am kneeling all day long to clean up spilled milk or get something stuck under a bed or tie a kid’s shoe, etc etc etc.
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