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Hey Mattie - did your books come? Have you read anything good?
I am struggling to finish Devil in the White City. I need to just "do it"...it is interesting and all but I'm finding it exhausting. It's on and on about the deadlines the engineers were working with to complete the Chicago World's Fair and it stresses me to read about the impending deadlines and all that happens to stand in the way. I have my own deadline issues, now I'm stressing over deadlines that were 100+ years ago....
Rugby would make me nervous. I do like protective gear when tackling is involved.
We have a family of possums living in the ravine in our yard. Every night they trot across the yard and go for a dip and a drink in our pond. Drives the dog nuts. The babies are very cute.
We are big rugby fans, DH grew up playing rugby. I think the lack of protective gear makes you a little more cautious, especially regarding tackles.
We used to have a cat that had a special possum friend. They hung out together. I put my foot down when I walked into the kitchen one night and the cat and possum were eating out of the kitty dish together. Possum had come in through the cat door. I got the broom and swept him back outside.
Possums hiss, BTW. I'll admit to being a little freaked out.
We used to have a cat that had a special possum friend. They hung out together. I put my foot down when I walked into the kitchen one night and the cat and possum were eating out of the kitty dish together. Possum had come in through the cat door. I got the broom and swept him back outside.
Possums hiss, BTW. I'll admit to being a little freaked out.
Hey MM. I have 8 books upstairs waiting for me to start on them. My book club picked "Wench", so that's next. I started reading a book highly recommended by Barnes and Noble called The Roses. I bought it after looking at it in the store, and seeing all the reviews, including one by Publishers Weekly that called it "the Texas Gone With the Wind". Ugh. Disguised chick lit, and I gave up after 150 pages.
$15.00 wasted.
We really liked the preschool we visited the other day, so we're going to go there in Sept. I knew MissFR was taller than average (in the 98th percentile) but it was astonishing to see her in an actual class of kids her age. She's way taller and just generally bigger than all of them. Yikes! She's like preschool Amazon woman.
Another day, another round of playdates. Summer is exhausting.
Fin - glad you found a school you like. Based on what you said I have a mental image of MissFR striking a Queen Boadacia-like pose leading a Pre-K revolution.
DS has always been above the 100th percentile for height, but his best friend since K is a mammoth, so I tend to forget how tall he is. At 10 DS is 5 feet, but his buddy is 5'7".
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