Third Child
Virgil starts school tomorrow. It was supposed to be last week, but the snow canceled it.
I have photos of Galen and I the first day I took him to work with me. I have first day of school photos for Galen and Perry for every year of school. I make sure to get honey straws (sorry I'm not smearing honey on an actual book. I don't get that tradition. Were books so cheap you could smear honey on them? Did they just live with so many bugs in their houses that the trail of ants to follow wouldn't have been noticed? Do they not have ants in Germany/Poland/Russia?). Some years we have chocolate.
Today it occurred to me this is Virgil's first day of school ever!. Maybe it's because we're just paying for the one day as a trial. Or that it's the middle of the year. Or that my life is so full of stuff that it leaves me drained of extra energy? I worry about that. I use to be an overachiever. Now I feel so lazy. I have ideas that never even find a starting point because the due date comes before I can even get the idea on the to do list. I talked to Brian about that tonight. I got through college in 3 years. In my Junior year of vet school I took Hebrew at night because apparently the hardest academic year ever didn't keep me busy enough. I did take it Pass/Fail but still it went on my Vet School transcript and one F was an automatic unappealable expulsion. No pressure, especially after failing completely to learn Hebrew the first two times I took it. Brian says our kids just take that much energy. He's probably right but sometimes I still feel like an underachiever.
Anyway I didn't charge the camera battery. The idea of photos just came to me this evening as I get ready for bed. I didn't buy anything special. I did make GF, vegan nearly Paleo brownies Sat morning (okay, maybe not so underachieving after all - Vegan/Paleo thats just like such a narrow window) so I tossed those on the table for breakfast. It just reminds me of the Pickles strip where the seventh child, an adult with kids of his own, is going through his oldest siblings very complete baby book and asks his mom where his book is and she says, "Let me go get the camera." Ouch!
In other news Virgil seems to be able to eat moderate amounts of chicken and possibly beef. Something turned him a bit red around the lips. I'm worried about peanuts but he loves them. He doesn't act itchy. I'm thinking we could try a rotation diet type of thing. Chicken once a week and beef if we are eating out where they don't have Bison or Lamb. I'm not sure how much is clearing the allergy v. Time since exposure.
Late thought. Virgil keeps asking when he can, "ride the bumpy bus?" So that's been a good sign that he thinks the idea of going to school is exciting. Or at least the idea of riding a school bus on rutted gravel/dirt roads.
PPS He called another Jaguar, "a bug car" today.