Fragments of today

My friend Janci loaned me Veronica Mars season 1. I’m hooked. The show features compact storytelling where past events mesh with current events to unravel a murder. Mix into that teenage angst and you’ve got a great story where all the threads twine around each other. The story is all about the people and how they are affected by past events and by the choices that they are making now. The good news is that season one is self contained. When I’m done I can stop. The bad news is that I have 5 disks to go. Or maybe that is also good news because I have hours of fun story ahead of me. I just need to make sure that I don’t watch Veronica Mars when I should be doing other things.

Today I walked home from school with Link. He asked me to walk with him. I left Kiki in charge of Gleek and Patches while I walked over to the school. Link met me with a wide smile. He was so happy to see me that he skipped along bouncing over cracks and lines and any other excuse he could have to go vertical as well as horizontal. I recognized the mood, there are times where I just feel like skipping and dancing. Sometimes I do skip and dance, sometimes fear of social censure prevents me from doing it. But Link has no such fears. He bounced. Then when he slowed down a little, he held my hand. I’m pretty sure that isn’t typical for a 9 year old boy to voluntarily walk down the street holding hands with his mother, but Link loved it. I think he remains the snuggliest of my kids. He was the one I rocked to sleep most often. The others wouldn’t sit still long enough. On the way home Link chattered about the walk. He pointed out the place he likes to cut through someone’s yard. He showed me the mailbox that looks like a birdhouse. He showed me the wobbly fence. He showed me the poles which he like to pretend to bump into. He also told me stories about events which happened with neighborhood kids along this same walk. Walking home has been good for him. I’m glad I got to share it a little today.

Today was also the day I dug through all the boxes of clothing in the garage. I sorted through to figure out what clothing I have waiting for my kids. Gleek and Patches are pretty well set for the next several years. Link and Kiki don’t have much waiting for them. Since money is looking like it is going to tighten back up for awhile, I need to keep my eyes open for good sources of clothing for these two. I probably need to be hitting the dollar days at Savers again. I haven’t been for awhile.