Happy Birthday Nellie

Small had to vote on a trip for Band today. There will be an overnight trip for all band members. Did they want to go to British Columbia at a cost of $2,000 each (eeeeeeeeek) or to Kingston Elementary Schools (nearly 3 hour coach ride) plus a stay in Quebec City (6 hours on from Kingston) for $1,000 each? Small said he chose the latter because although he wants to go to BC, he knows the cost is just much. What a sweetie. To be honest, I'm not sure how I am going to tell Huffle about the $1,000 either, plus there is no guarantee that it won't be the BC trip either. It depends on how the students voted. I'm guessing not too many students would think of their parents bank accounts like Small has. We are thinking it might be time to get Small a job.

Smallest played football at every recess and had a lunchtime practice. He was tired when he got home and then this evening he had another try-out for his rep team. Poor little Bear ended up wearing Small's old boots because at the last moment he realised he had left his football boots at school! Then he injured his ankle, possibly because of the poor fitting boots, possibly because he was so tired!! He is still so sensitive and looks constantly close to tears. We told him he needed to rest properly and put him in an Epsom Salt bath when we got home from tryouts. Huffle and I had to piggyback him to and from the car!

Huffle worked hard as usual, in fact I only saw him at lunchtime. He is tired and just a little grumpy.

I had an opticians appointment this morning and told her all about my weepy right eye. She checked my tear ducts by putting a dye in my eye and watching where it went. My ducts are not blocked, well the bits she can see. She did say she would prescribe drops and it if they didn't sort it, I may have to see a lid specialist who will stick a syringe down the corner of my eye (under a local anaesthetic). OUCH that doesn't sound nice, no thank you! I now have drops that I have to put in my eyes four times a day for two weeks. My eyes are dry and they produce tears to try to relieve them which sounds crazy. I also need to drink more water. The optician also put in gunky yellow drops to check for other things. This made me blurry but wasn't supposed to and I looked jaundiced and a bit alien-like. So I popped into Walmart to see if I could scare some people while I picked up some milk and wool. Of course, this is the time I bump into someone I haven't seen for ages and have to stop and chat to, though I did explain.

I came home for lunch and then Suffolk came by and sewed her quilt while I knitted. We had a nice hour or so before she rushed off to get her kids and mine came home. Smallest and I FaceTimed Grandma and Grandad briefly and made pizza for dinner. Small did homework and stayed behind and cleared up while we took Smallest to his try-out.

Our cosmos has finally bloomed

 

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