I spent all day Saturday helping Chloe deliver girl scout cookies. Would you believe that she sold 150 boxes?! That was mostly going door-to-door with me about six weeks ago. Liz bought a bunch to put in the freezer and Chloe spent an hour outside the local grocery store handing out cookies - which is really what it is. They pretty much sell themselves. Hardly anyone says “no thanks”. Its a nice change from trying to talk people in to buying Cub Scout Popcorn. They’re just not the same.
The deliveries went well, if a little slowly. We managed to account for every box, which made me feel good. I’m always afraid that something is going to happen even though it never does. Whew!
On Sunday we ran errands mostly. I had planned on spending some time working on one of my three electronics projects, but that fell apart when my printer configuration got wiped out. oddly, when I accidentally cleared the configuration on the printer it reset the firmware to what was originally stored in the ROM. And suddenly it wouldn’t connect to the network any more and I was having exactly the same problems as I had when I initially set it up. So now I have to reload the new firmware and everything.
Chloe has a new web page. Its all about Fairies. Its called http://www.fairyfacts.org. Hmmm… I showed her MS Publisher and tried to give her some pointers, but she kept pushing me away telling me that she wanted to do it. Still, now that I look at it there’s a lot of stuff she could do to clean it up. Maybe I’ll push back and encourage her to make some changes.
Grace is still an adorable kid. She fell asleep on the way home from our errands yesterday with her thumb stuck in her mouth and she looked like she was only 3 years old. She turns six a week from Saturday. She’s having a birthday party at a local indoor playground. We managed to avoid birthday parties altogether for her first … I think it was three birthdays, but after that she realized how much fun birthday parties were and she started wanting one.
I know, it makes us terrible parents for depriving her of a birthday party.
For Liz’s birthday I am taking her to a sold-out Bon Jovi concert at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut. That’s happening this weekend. The kids will be looked after by a family friend and we will go and stay over at the casino. Maybe I’ll play some blackjack. That’s the only game that I ever play at places like that. I can’t stand slot machines. The 100% luck factor of craps makes me uncomfortable. Roulette… well, I’ve never played roulette. Maybe I’ll try it this time. Anyway, I am taking Liz there for her birthday so I don’t want to run off and do something else entirely, you know?
Bon Jovi? I know, I’m not crazy about Bon Jovi, but I am crazy about Liz. I figure that its stuff like spending all day Saturday with Chloe delivering cookies and taking Liz to a concert by a band I dislike that they’ll love the most. I think that when Chloe is big and she looks back on her childhood things like the cookie-delivery-bit will stand out. And when Liz is feeling down she’ll be able to look back on this memorable event and know that I did something I didn’t want to do because I love her.
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