Summer Excitement!
Ahhhh, Summer! We’ve started it off with a bang, Yoda and I both getting wretched viruses which I am still suffering from, and also I got a sweet bonus of Pink Eye in my left eye and this morning it looks like it has moved over to join it’s neighbor, the very sad right eye. F. So painful, oh my god. I can’t even believe it. Poor Yoda stayed home from work on Friday but feels better today and yesterday was Father’s day so he got himself and Goosey out of the house to avoid the freaking Pinkeye situation - they went South on Hwy One and it was a gorgeous day! First they stopped in Bonny Doon (a little town on Hwy One) to drop off the bedside tables we sold on Craigslist, then they continued to Santa Cruz to go the Marine Science Center there. Dads got in free and they had a great time. Then they came home and I had made Father’s Day dinner - spinach and mushroom lasagna with a puree of Winter Squash sauce . Yum-o! Then Yoda gave her a bath and she started crying about her OTHER ear hurting (we all recall last week’s ear infection) so I took her to the emergency room and got her another prescription for her NEW ear infection! Good times. Then home and bed. I have a new new routine, thanks to the Pinkeye, of barely touching poor Goose and of washing all the towels, sheets and pillow cases I touch every day. Yoda and Goose sleep in the big bed, I’m in her little one…this could go on for weeks! It’s a Viral type which does not respond to Anti-Biotics, so….yeah. Just have to wait it out. Misery. Goosey’s ear is better every day at least, poor thing. My eyes look hideous, and feel even worse. Every morning I have to pry them open with a wet warm cloth, my lashes are cemented shut from the dried disgusting ooze. God. Gross.
But in more fun news, Goosey’s end of the Kindy year was fun, they had a bug day with games and activities and a little party, and we’re so glad to be done for the year! I think overall she really loved being in the class as long as the teacher was there, and she loved doing the work, but - we’ll see. We’re going to try another teacher who is more on top of the kids’ behavior and see if that helps. If, by December, it is still lame, then we’ll home school. Today was day one of our Summer School wherein we do pages from a fun 1st grade math workbook which she oddly really enjoys, then we do the handwriting workbook her teacher sent home, and in the afternoons we dance and she reads ten pages to me from our Mo Willems books. Then we do bug-hunting and other science stuff throughout the day, cooking, going to the beach, and then our weekly or bi-weekly San Francisco museum or park field trips. Also, our Sunday Stern Grove symphony and Opera and Ballet picnic concerts. So fun! Good times for sure! Oh, and tomorrow she starts a week of Ballet Camp, which ends on Friday with a little production of The Little Mermaid. Holymoly that will be fun, she is all about the mermaids - and ballet! So happy for her, she will have a blast. As long as I don’t give her f-ing pink-eye…
Here is her final Kindy report card message from her teacher:
“Cordelia has worked very hard this quarter and is ready for first grade. Cordelia has a kind heart and is empathetic towards others. She wants to do the right thing and feels sad when others are hurting, when things aren’t fair, or when someone is not acting humane. Cordelia continues to enjoy creative activities, especially messy ones! She also likes entertaining the teachers with song and dance.”
Awesome. And now here we go with Summer, while I wait on the TEN agents I have queried, and on the two who are currently reading my entire book! If, in eight weeks, I have not heard from those ten then I send out ten more, and then ten more, etc. etc. until someone offers to represent me. Along the way I get advice from them (the ones who have the time and inclination to give it) to further revise and make the book better, and in the meantime - off to work on book number two, every night. Litquake in September, SF marathon in July, Nike women’s marathon in September….good times.
We are so sad we didn’t get to see Pop-Pop on Father’s Day, since he was helping Nana Jo all day - we love you so much, Pop. We’ll see you soon. You are the best dad (and son) in the world. (And so is your son!)
We got Goosey’s glasses on Friday, and she LOVES them! They are so cute, she looks amazing, I’ll put up photos as soon as I can. She’s wearing them all the time and being so good about it.
Love you all, happy Summer!