For those of us who live hundreds of miles away from the nearest family members, the internet (and particularly, the blog) has been an indispensable way to keep up with one another. Now, even though I see them twice a year at most, they can all chuckle with me when Isaac says funny stuff, and they can all pray for me when there's job upheaval or sick kids.
On the "sick kids" front, Alice still experiences visual disturbances that bother her, but this morning they were bad enough to give her a headache. She's better now; I suggested she rest and close her eyes for a while to make them go away. Martha is doing much, much better attitudinally. I asked her the other night if she could tell the difference when she was taking her medicine and when she wasn't, and she agreed that she wasn't so angry all the time anymore. It's been a remarkable transformation. She still has learning disabilities and difficulties keeping up with things, but those things are bearable when she's at least pleasant and funny and part of the family.
On the "Isaac funny stuff" front, yesterday I took the three of them to Chuck E. Cheese after school just to blow some $$ and have some fun. Isaac has always had the hardest time with the name of that place; I guess he always heard us call it "Chuck E. Cheese's" and mistakenly thought the name was "Chuck E. Jesus." He still calls it that, and then conks his head and corrects himself. He said it in the school office yesterday when I came to pick him up, and another mom was coming in right when he said it. She grinned and said, "I'm going to laugh about that one all weekend. Thanks!"
At ChuckE's I gave them a bunch of tokens, and took some for myself and played SkeeBall. Then I found this little unassuming game in an uninhabited corner of the restaurant; if you clicked the button and the light was in the "bonus" circle, you got 50 tickets. So I started draining the thing; usually you only got 1 or 2 or 5 tickets, but every so often you score a bonus and get 50. I ended up with nearly 600 tickets when I had gone through all my tokens. I split the tickets evenly between the three of them when we were done so they could get better prizes. "You're the awesomest Mom ever!" he declared. On the way home, he was recounting the evening's events to Alice (even though she was there, she doesn't mind hearing about it again because she probably has trouble remembering it otherwise). "I had 79 tickets, but Mom gave me an upgrade," he said solemnly.
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