Thursday, December 23, 2010

Christmas Card!

Yesterday, when the mail came, there was what was obviously a Christmas card - red envelope and all.

This one was different. The address took up the whole envelope, which was about 5" x 7". It was printed in pencil, and on three lines - literally. Three lines drawn - probably using  a ruler - across the envelope itself.

The stamp covered part of the adressee information. It was addressed to "Grandma Donna & [this part covered] Grandpa Marc." My heart skipped a beat.

The back had the return address of Mikey's school - 

Over the message on the inside were two more lines: "To Grandma Donna & Grandpa Marc." And under the message, two more ruler-drawn lines:

Love

Mikey

I cried.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

A couple of random ....

Mikey continues to eat. For a snack, he ate: popcorn, pretzels (more on this), a mandarin orange, and pecans.

The pretzels were in a wooden bowl. There was also a new jar of peanut butter on the table. Turned my back for a few minutes, to find that Mikey had:
  • Opened the peanut butter (I buy "natural" which separates)
  • Poured the peanut oil onto the pretzels
  • Was eating the pretzels (and peanut oil - yuck) with a spoon!!
(FYI he later had an enchilada plate AND a bean and cheese burrito, plus some cheese quesadilla I made, and an ice cream drumstick, for dinner.)

The boys help us with recycling. We take glass bottles, plastic containers and cans to a recycle center. They have to help us separate the cans and plastic into large bins, and the glass has to be sorted further into colors. The sorted materials are taken to the scale and weighed; our id is checked and we get a voucher for the material. We go to the cashier to get the cash. The boys then get a share.

Both boys have banks at our house; David has spent a lot of his (and Mikey almost none). Today David asked to go to the Japanese marketplace (indoors; we've had rain for days now). Grandpa asked if he planned to buy anything. He decided to take his money with him. I have it on good authority that he bought something for Mom. (Can't say what - she reads the blog ;-).