Random Fun

Greetings y'all :

It's been a fun couple of days since last we commiserated. Friday was a day off for students but Junior Mint came in with me. We had to pop out to run an errand and decided to grab a pair of pizzas at Little Caesars on the way back to work. We entered a dark building, power was obviously out. My little man sherpa'd the pizzas to my classroom. He then went back through the hall inviting everyone to his party.

It was pretty cool. His teachers and counselor, and other staff joined us. It was nice having a friendly organic gathering of folk. We all interacted on a human level . I think some walls came down. Ironically it reminded me of the old days when the neighborhood knew where to go in case of loss of power. The adults would gather on our side porch and the kids would congregate in my room. I also learned my son is a good little host. He got anxious with all the people around but was in his element, surrounded by adults. The lad really is more comfortable with grown folk, they can match his experiences and interests and are more patient and understanding.

Saturday we ventured down to the Walters Art Gallery for the Family Rennasaince Festival. Good times I tell you ! They had a multitude of crafts relating to period people. Such as make your own telescope ( Gallileo) . Naturally Junior Mint announced his was for the meteor shower that night. Some how we ran into DaVinci, Gallileo ,saw period dancers, heard period singers, stopped at most of the stations and saw most of the permanent collection. At one of the stations the volunteer asked if we came for the Festival or lived in the area. Junior Mint replied non-chalantly "We're the Robinsons, we just do random fun things" One of life's simple pleasures is allowing children to answer questions from others with out editing their answers. I couldn't have argued with his response anyway. Our belly buttons were touching our back bones so we followed a friends advice and grabbed two huge slices at "Never on a Sunday" on our way to the metro.

The last two weeks I've been exhausted and in desperate need of "I" time. We were chaffing against each other and stayed inside. Hmm imagine water molecules trapped inside a container that is being heated. The molecules rub together rather fiercely,which of course leads to boiling. Imagine those same molecules given a release and the heat turned down. We are left with flowing water able to move freely.

Ok back to yesterday. We decided to push through the evening and stay up for the meteor shower. My first instinct was to drive north and get out of the lights and into the country. I followed my ADD mind and last minute thought to drive to a pull over near Soldiers Delight. We saw a magnificent moon set then faced east to watch Orion and the scattered meteor showers. Twas a chilly evening so we had blankets and were bundled up. We spied a few , roughly thirty between us, meteors. Junior Mint decided to bury himself in the blanket. Poor chilly man cub . I told him we would go home at midnight. He fell asleep and I enjoyed the showers and the quiet of nature. Blissful I tell you. Midnight came and I tried to rouse my little man. No dice. I had just put our things away and was about to get out the car to physically pick up man cub and put him in his car seat but was interrupted by bright lights, flashing lights and a man in a uniform carrying a badge and a side arm. Sure it's all fun and games until the police arrive. He was inquisitive as to why I sitting in the car. I said we are watching the meteor showers. He looked in the car and only saw me. I removed the blanket and said " it's my eight year old son, I told him we'd leave at midnight." The officer laughed and said " it's 12:10 and technically you're trespassing, park closes at sunset. I D please " I apologized. He came back complimenting my car and parenting but suggested twas time to move on. I concurred. We exchanged some pleasantries. After securing my lad in his seat we drove off. On the way home I managed to miss a key turn and went a tad out of our way. I don't get lost , I am just not always where I think I should be.

Our life is still far from perfect. We've celebrated our one year here after a tumultuous move last year. The wolf is camped comfortably at our door and still howling. We have love though. The last two weeks were difficult but we are learning and growing. It's a vicious cycle - the events set the mood while the mood sets the events. Yesterday was a good day - I'll take it.

Thanks for reading again today folks.