Those of you who pray - Kendall and I are driving to Atlanta this afternoon to help some dear friends of ours whose family is being torn apart. Will you pray for Kendall’s and my health - the household where we are heading all came down with the flu but has been fever free since last night - and pray for healing for this family? I’ll be gone until Sunday or Monday. They have a very long road ahead of them.

Those in Atlanta - please don’t be offended that I don’t call to hang out. I’m going to be focusing all of my efforts and attention on this family.

Thank you!

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We’ve had a cold for a week. Yesterday Kendall’s eyes started getting red and crusty. I tried breast milk in her eyes (I’ve heard it’s great for pink eye), I tried some homeopathic drops. Her eyes only got worse. I called the pediatrician’s office (closed as it was Saturday) and the nurse on duty told me to give her Benadryl and then if she gets worse, runs a fever, or is not better by Sunday afternoon, head to the emergency room.

I tried to give Kendall her second dose of Benadryl at 2am and she wouldn’t open her eyes. I applied a wet warm washcloth in case they were crusted shut from all the goo. She screamed and cried but wouldn’t open them and both were looking quite pink on the outside and one was a little puffy. If the morning would have brought Monday and an open pediatrician’s office, I would have waited, but our appointment was thirty hours away and I was worried that my baby’s eyeballs were going to sink into her head never to be seen again. So I woke up Tom and we headed to the children’s ER. I knew I was probably overreacting, but the eyes seem like such tender organs.

Total time in and out was two hours. There was one family ahead of us and one behind us in the waiting room. The MD gave us ointment - which I gotta say is a bear to get in Kendall’s eyes. One person holds her down while the other pries her eyes open to squeeze in the ointment as Kendall moves her head.

Oh - and Kendall opened her eyes as soon as we were signed in at the ER and wanted to look at all of the pictures on the wall. I guess she takes after her father in how well she wakes up. (although when I want her to sleep so that I can get something done, she’ll wake right up.)

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The washer broke last week and so I seized the opportunity to get what I had really wanted while living in Decatur - a stackable front-loading washer and dryer. The dryer door opens from the opposite end of the dryer and so I removed the dryer door to move the hinges and reverse the direction that it opens. I was remounting the door, whose top edge is about even with my head, and as I held the door with one arm and started a screw with the other hand, I dropped a screw onto the floor. Kendall was busy next to me dumping out a box of Uncle Joe’s stuff (he clears off his area in the kitchen everyone in a while into a box.) nearby and I was able to attract her attention to the screw - she picked it up and handed it to me.

I think it was pretty cool.

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It’s hot.

Mom has a pool.

Shula and Zolan came over and we went swimming.

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Jay and Chrystal recruited me to play Ultimate Frisbee on Fridays this season. I had run out of excuses for not playing sports with them, so I got sucked in. It was great.

We finally played the season finale, a 3-game tourney for all the marbles. Florida, however, had other ideas (see weather report about five posts down). We made it though game one and won. We made it through halftime of game two after a lightning delay (a surprising number of ultimate players die in lightning strikes. Either they’re an incredibly godless group or they just don’t have the sense to come in out of the rain.). After the second lightning delay and in steadily worsening weather, I bailed for the day. I doubt they’ll be able to finish the tournament.

But it was a great season. We went .500 for the season, it got me in better shape, and I had a good time. They ramp up again in October. I plan to sign up.

Update: Games were finished after all, our team came in third, and Jay and Chrystal are now recruiting me for hockey.

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Nah, I was probably already on those lists after signing petitions against GMO crops. But ANYWAY…

Uncle Bud gave money to lots of charities and lots of right-wing political organizations. The political organizations sent him books. I just posted one box of them on Paperbackswap.com.

Five of them are already spoken for. I better haul up the next box and enter them in.

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(a month plus ago)

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I have just finished unpacking from Tom’s Dad wedding.

The wedding was May 9.

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Kendall awoke from her nap this afternoon with a fever.

I put her in the nursery at church for the first time this morning.

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My godson Tristan created this sign and stuck it to a pillow fort at his house. Note that Tristan is 6, and his brothers Jack and Lucius are 3 and 1, respectively.

I love it.

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