>Question: What happens when you forget to bring diapers, repeatedly, to the daycare?
Answer: They use the spare diapers, and when your baby has a blowout, they send him home in floral leggings.

Sound familiar? This has happened before.

>Oh look, my family is so good at fishing, people are lining up to watch them and to take pictures.

From Yellowstone

Coincidentally, there were some elk.

From Yellowstone

Hello, bison with geyser, aka quintessential Yellowstone photo!

From Yellowstone

>We had soccer practice today. I’m a soccer mom, and the wife of the coach, so I had to bring the balls. Jack wasn’t too happy about it!

In continued Luke/bookworm news, Luke turned down a play date today to read instead. And last’s nights homework was to find all the compound words in a book about maps. Luke thought compass was a compound word. I said, “What? Comp and ass?” He said, “No, com and pass.” I said, “Com isn’t a word, use it in a sentence.” He replied, “Dot com.” Then between the two of us, we couldn’t figure out if highway was a compound word or not. So we went to bed and finished the homework in the morning. Yes, I am already stumped by first grade homework!

>I can’t just talk about Sparkly Vampires all the time, especially when I am reading a lot of other good stuff too… I did seriously read The Color Purple in between Sparkly I and Sparkly II. So I updated my list of books that I can remember reading in 2009. And by “remember” I mean “look up on my library record, and see on my bookshelf, and maybe remember lending out/giving away.”

I didn’t rank the books this time because I am lazy, but I can make recommendations. Also, I have this to say about Sparkly IV: It is 700 pages. I finished it about 27 hours after it arrived at my house in the mail. Before I opened the cover, I said, “Good bye family.” When I was done, I said, “I just finished my book.” And Dave said, “I can tell because you are talking to me.”

Once I got the new list posted, I noticed that my recent series of videos is sort of blobbing over into that side panel. Then I thought about trying to fix that, but then I realized that it’s 1:29 am and if the technology gods had been smiling on me, I would have been in bed a few hours ago.

>I’ve been trying to work closer to 40 hours than 60, so this week I haven’t opened my laptop after work. Yea me! Of course that means I am still way way way behind on all the witty and hilarious blog posts that I owe my loyal readers. (Hi Cindy!)

I also tried to do a post for William’s blog, and then accidentally posted it here. (William is doing well, but this month he starts the next round of chemo and it is going to be a really intense month.) When I realized what happened with the blog, I tried to fix it, but google wouldn’t let me log in for about 5 hours. Coincidentally, I got a lot of work done that day. (I almost never post from work – but that was a quicky and then I screwed it up and then I ended up being really productive for the rest of the day so I think it’s OK.)

In other news, a few weeks ago, I realized that some of Jack’s friends know their colors and I was like, “OMG! Jack doesn’t know his colors! He’ll never get into Harvard now!” OK, it was more like, “Oh yeah. Colors. Maybe we should talk about colors.” And talking about colors is really fun. It always goes like this:

Me: What colors is this? (Points to something.)
Jack: Bee-you?
Me: Nope. (Unless it is blue, which it rarely is.)

Other colors that Jack will sometimes guess if bee-you is not the right answer: Goo-een? Yea-yo? Wed?

Also cute, but tragic: When I dropped Jack off this morning I asked for a kiss and he said “No.” Actually, it was not just, “No.” It was, “No. No tiss. No tiss. No.” But then he gave me a tiss anyway.

Glasses Update: I tried on 50 pairs of glasses. They can be viewed here. But I think I am just going to get prescription sunglasses and wear the glasses I already have for a while and continue to shop for glasses and then never buy them. But feel free to vote for your favorite pair!

Health Update: It hasn’t been exactly a month since my last monthly tragedy, so it’s a little early to have something else going on, but yesterday an email went out that we have our first potential case of H1N1 flu in our building. And I had spent the entire day before in this guys office working with him so I think we can guess where this is going to end up. Maybe if I get too sick to blog, (again) instead of taking another extended absence, (again) I’ll just sign up for twitter and tweet my swine flu experience. Keep your fingers crossed, readers!

>Light The Night Walk is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s evening walk and fund raising event. It is the nation’s night to pay tribute and bring hope to thousands of people battling blood cancers and to commemorate loved ones lost.

This year there will be teams in two cities walking to support William!

• On Oct 1st, 2009 Team Will OHIO is participating in Light the Night walk. . We will leave Fraze Pavilion in Dayton and walk 2 miles starting at 7:30pm.
• On Oct 10th, 2009 Team Will California is participating in Light the Night walk. We will leave Palo Alto High School and walk 2 miles starting at 7:30pm.
  

To support Team Will, please go to http://www.giveforward.org/TeamWill/!

Thank you for your continued support!

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From June

This is the face of a poor little boy who wants his mommy to pick him up.

>This is Sweet Jack today after dinner in his swim shirt, covered with ice cream and pretty much everything else he encountered today. His swim shirt, of course is the one thing I know he will need on our vacation. Thank God for Dave! He hand washed it, and it is drying as we both sit here working and watching a movie. Sometime soon (midnight) we may start packing. Yea! Soon we will be on vacation!

P.S. I was just going to pull an Uncle John and pack the dirty shirt. Then, when we got to Grandma and Grandpa’s house I could say, “Mom, be a dove and wash this for me.” JUST KIDDING!

P.P.S. New Camera! Yea!

>It’s possible that I could come up with a very moving and thoughtful post about life, death, denial, acceptance, optimism, regret, sorrow. But instead, I have this thought to share: Doesn’t that seem like a really big straw to go with an iced coffee?

>The 19th of July is only one short day away. In case you needed a reminder. And I think I am going to do my comments contest again. Comment on any post between today and the end of July and you’ll be entered into my comments contest. I’ll pick one random commenter to win, and the prize is to be determined. Probably something lame. Maybe not though! Last year, commenter JEJ won a gift certificate to her local independent book store.

A few weeks ago, my friend Laura and I were discussing the merits of sending your children back to daycare as soon as they had been on antibiotics for 24 hours. I’m for it, but she was feeling guilty for not indulging her sick children more. I said, “As someone who was babied as a sick child, I can tell you it doesn’t work out well in adulthood. Once your mom has left you with a little china bell to ring whenever you need something, you can expect that any sickness you suffer as an adult is going to be that much worse since no one is waiting on you,” Laura said, “A CHINA BELL??? I feel like I have the rosetta stone to MetaMegan. And a great idea for a 19th of July present.”

And little did she know how appropriate a present it would turn out to be! Of course, I take back everything I said about no one waiting on me, Dave has been the best, he is taking great care of me. And with the combination of 19th of July presents and care packages, I might have a very nice 19th of July after all.

In other news, the tooth fairy forgot to come last night. I hope the tooth fairy didn’t also have emergency laproscopic surgery last week! That would be awful. I think, if I can put Twilight down, that I might try to sew a tooth pillow today as I convalesce. We’ll see.