Miscellaney and thoughts

The rug Esme wanted for in front of her bed.. it is very small, but at least it is a use.

I made a skirt today, as well - and it was quite nice for cleaning up the house in.  I attacked some parts that had really needed scrubbing in the house, did laundry.. finished this rug and then when it was time to get Esme from the school bus the Kitty goat was missing.  We went out and looked all over the property, the neighbors.. down the road and to the lake.. and we did not find her.  Our small dog crew was missing, too.. which was actually a good sign, as they were likely with her and not leaving her alone out there.  I was a little short with Esme during the initial search - she had hit a girl on the bus as well.  I got some bad news on my student loan and I have to try for some more help there - applying for another program.  We'll see.  It was all looking like just more rain in our tea sort of thing so much I was just wondering what if anything we could do to help with it... not much, make dinner, bathe the little girl and wash her hair, get her ready for bed...  and the dogs brought the goat home to the doorstep six hours after we noticed her missing.  It feels good to have something come back right.  I told each of them they were good dogs, and Sweetie ran around the house upset because she was still wet and she hates to be wet.  The really weird thing I keep thinking is that for several days on a week now that goat has been trying to chew a blue plastic bag that is separated from her tie string by a window - she keeps trying, even though it is on the other side of the window (in the house).  She was doing that at about noon today, still... so one track mind and then suddenly we have no idea where she went *facepalm*...

Tomorrow off, too... hope it is on the good side.

Other things Esme blew me away with today:  'Meteorites are controlled by the Universe.'  ok.. do you know what meteorites are? 'They are big rocks, (that) go from planets and get on them (explosion sign).  yes, they are.. and where do they come from when they go on to the planets? (The universe place... it is BIG, and we are tiny.'  We were eating grilled cheese sandwiches while sitting in her empty kiddie pool in the yard (see above, we usually sit in the back of the truck for 'picnics' but Daddy was out searching the neighboring roads again for the goat) and I pointed to a tiny tiny crumb on my finger.  I said yes, we are smaller than this, and the Universe - the outer space between the planets, is bigger than the sky up there.  We don't even know how big it is, we haven't found out how big it is yet - it goes on and on and on..'  Esme looked up.. and really thought about it.  It was a nice expression to see.

She also told me today was a hard day (when I was telling her it was a hard day for us because of all the work we had done and all of the searching for the goat after that) for HER today - because she had lots of work tests, and C at school tried to copy from her, but their hearts were different numbers on the papers, so C couldn't copy, and she colored hers black because C only likes pink and she wouldn't copy that.  *Ha*

For me: I had a good dream the other night.  I always have this one recurring 'night mare', that there is a math class I am going to get an 'F' in because I can never find it to attend it, but I also can't cancel it.... and I can't even remember where to go or what time until it is always too late.  That night I dreamt the teacher went through my scores and even though they were all bad (and decreasing as they went to zeroes) she said if I brought her lunch from the cafeteria I could get the key to the workroom and do makeup tests as I could get there, over time, and catch up.  That was a simple, but good dream - except I couldn't find the cafeteria... still better than before.  Maybe I'll magically have a sandwich next time I get there ;)

Happy birthday to Esme's Grandma and mad scientist tendencies

Happy birthday Irene! Sorry I have to work today, but hope you have a wonderful day and maybe a visit from a little girl who likes to see her Grandma and Grandpa.

//last day of six today, tomorrow off. I've been invited to a baby shower tomorrow but I highly doubt I will go. I have five more days on after that - and I really don't want to have to go anywhere as I'm wearing a little thin after this six!

Yesterday Esme took a chair from one part of the room, and a broken table from another part of the room and put them together in the middle of the floor. I had to do a double-take, because the chair under the broken table made it stand up straight again... she seemed proud of that and wandered off again. Later she set up a tea set for her horse figurines and playmobils - and gave the horse two blocks to stand on, because he has four feet.. and all of the people figures had one block to sit on.

I have had this idea for more than a year now that she is going to grow up to be a mad scientist! Or a mechanic, or maybe both. She just has this sense of spatial logic that is innate. She would balance huge towers and sometimes put things in there that had no sense being in block towers - a random horse toy or plastic egg used fully to its mass and inertia to balance a structural load just so. She would find one thing and dig all over the house to find a mate she remembered existed, or just 'something' she thought would go with it to complete an idea. Like a little Emmett Brown in her workshop. She would seem frustrated and then have a 'Eureka' type moment and go put two pieces together that seemed random - until she told you what she was thinking - and then it was some mixture between laughter and surprise. I remember the plastic fork at the bottom of the slide, placed tines toward the slide at an angle on a block. She then rolled a plastic come-apart Easter egg down the slide, into the fork and pretended that made the egg come apart, while pulling a duck toy out from behind her back and saying 'I crack an egg!' It makes the mind spin a little, but not in a bad way ;)

Her other activity lately is 'Chef' cooking us 'meals' in her toy cooking pans - cheese pizza seems to consist of cat figurines and footballs lightly stirred. 'Snow white pies' are a washcloth draped on top of a tupperware with water slowly poured into the tupperware from a 'porkchop with ketchup' toy bird. ?? I don't know why either, it just is!