Half Time

Now that Wuggie Norple and I are both half-time (him at camp, me at work) we are having to make our own adventures.

Last week we completed the Summer Reading Club for the local library, Applebees and Barnes and Noble. Then yesterday we got a call explaining that Nick had won a prize in the library drawing! "Do you want to go now to pick it up?" I asked. He was out the door and on his bike before I even got my shoes on. He got his pick of books and chose a volume from the Jedi Apprentice Series.


Most importantly, we finally lived out a year-long dream of walking the Carl Sagan Planet Walk that runs from the Science Center all the way to the commons. We had Dad drive us to the science center, our backpack loaded with a variety of snacks suitable for travelers. The walk happily wanders by many of my favorite parks and streams and gardens, and has many benches and steps where we could sit and rest. It was like a mom's dream come true to be sitting on a park bench with Wuggie sharing a dish of blueberries between Neptune and Uranus. He even agreed to let me take his picture at each planet! We walked the whole way home, arriving weary and triumphant. It was a proud day.

Today we didn't have any special plans, and it was cold and rainy off and on. Poor Dog was out of biscuits, and moved by her plight, we made her some ourselves. (They are Cheese Biscuits in case your dog is feeling left out.) Wuggie Norple is getting to be quite a cook. Dog seems to agree.