March 22, 2007

• Thursday Ramblings

  Rissy woke us up today at 4:45am crying and telling Jesse she couldn’t find Annamarie.  Jesse told her to go back to bed.  She came back a few minutes later, still crying, saying someone had taken Annamarie and she wanted her sister back because she couldn’t sleep without her in their bed.  Jesse told her Annamarie was probably in the guest room.  Rissy argued and told him Annamarie’s pillow was in bed, but Annamarie was gone (gently crying during the entire conversation).  He told her not to worry and to go back to bed because it was still dark outside.  I haven’t heard a peep from Rissy since then and it’s 8:30!  HOWEVER, that was all *I* needed to give my insomnia problem a jump start.  It readily kicked in!

  I tried desperately to go back to sleep, but thoughts of Elizabeth Smart’s disappearance began to haunt me.  I tried to comfort myself by thinking, “OUR windows were all closed and the burglar alarm was set last night.  There’s no way anyone could have taken Annamarie from her bed like that guy took Elizabeth Smart.”  After 45 minutes, I gave up trying to sleep or convince myself Annamarie was fine.  I got up to turn on the coffee pot AND to look for Annamarie.  I found her in the den sleeping with Rissy’s new pink, fuzzy, b-day blanket tucked into the sofa cushions around her.  It looked to me like she had been there all night.  Maybe Rissy was hogging the blankets and Annamarie couldn’t fall asleep in bed, so she moved to the sofa?  Who really knows?  She does odd things that are never easily explained!!!  I woke her up and told her to go sleep in the guest room and off she went.

  I watched Fox & Friends and was completely bored.  There was nothing I was interested in learning about, I guess!  Eventually Jesse came to the den and we had a nice chat (especially me since I was on my 2nd cup of coffee!) until he had to get ready to load up his mowers and leave for work.

  Let’s see what has happened the last couple of days since my last entry. 

  Rissy saw the pediatrician 2 days ago for a recheck of her bronchial problems.  She was put on all types of new allergy & asthma managing medications to squelch her wheezing, etc.  It will be a while before we know if it will truly help her condition.

  Yesterday afternoon, Jesse & I met one of the pawn shop partners at the bank to sign the partnership dissolution paper, have it notarized, and get paid most of the buy-out money from the remaining partners.  Things are almost completely over with except for some cash, here and there, that will be given to us over the next month.

  Prior to meeting everyone at the bank, I had taken the girls to Barnes and Noble so I could check out their inexpensive, classic novel section for myself.  The girls went to the children’s area to look at books.  As we walked back to the children’s department, Rissy asked me, “Is this a library, like we’ve seen on tv, or what?”  Several people (the kind who are in there all the time browsing & buying books and espresso) looked down their nose at me because it appeared I have deprived and disadvantaged my children by not allowing them the privilege of knowing the difference between a library and a bookstore!  *I* know they read all the time because I order *good* books for them online; but, these other people didn’t know and I felt intimidated.  I explained this was like a library except you bought these books rather than borrow them.  “SO YOU CAN ADD THEM TO YOUR LIBRARY AT HOME,” I added, in a stage whisper!

  My own search for books proved to be successful and caused me to remember WHY I don’t go into bookstores more frequently . . . $100+ later!!!!!!  I can justify the total bill because I DID buy a b-day gift for my friend, Lori, and a small box of ephemeral cards from the turn of the century (reminds me of stuff my Grandma Murche had in her card collection) for myself.

  I came home with six children’s classics, rewritten for younger children (Black Beauty, Treasure Island, Robin Hood, etc.), and I bought some THICK classics for myself:  Common Sense & Other Writings by Thomas Paine; The Country of The Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett (a new author to me); The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Daisy Miller & Washington Square by Henry James; and The Portable Edith Wharton a selection of her short stories, travel and personal memoirs, etc. 

  I’m waiting for my book order from Amazon.com to arrive at the end of March.  It contains several books for the me AND for the girls’ “home library.”  Some titles of what I ordered: Little Women and Little Men.  I figured it’s time for me to start reading meatier books to our children to help build their vocabulary.  I also want  to pave the way for making the world of literature more interesting.  Hopefully, they will someday learn to enjoy reading.

   

   

   

   

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