1.

Tonight is supposed to be Mr. R’s first sleepover ~BUT~ four male family members were down with the stomach bug yesterday and I’m still waiting for the little girls to get it. It hit Mr. S and husband dear pretty hard, and so we have to postpone the party until next week.

2.

Except two boys – friends of his that I’ve never met – haven’t RSVPed so I have no phone number to get ahold of them to tell them that we have to postpone.

Dear Moms. Please RSVP to party invites!

3.

Mr. P finally has his neurology appointment on Tuesday. I hope they’ll be able to see him – through a series of mishaps, mistakes, and a federal holiday I won’t have a current Medicaid card for him (they expire on the last day of the month, and I can’t get one for June until June 1. But his appointment is ON June 1 and I don’t have time to wait a few hours for it before the appt.)

Trying not to be too nervous about it, even though I suspect this is a gatekeeper appointment before getting the rubber stamp to see other specialists or have more testing done.

4.

Salad spinner + 3 year old = happy kitchen helper. And thoroughly dry lettuce.

5.

Drawstring pants + grabby toddler = disaster. And that goes for elastic band skirts when the baby’s learning to pull up, too.

6.

I FINALLY got around to watching the LOST finale. It was so good – until it sucked. SO much left unanswered! What happened to Walt and Michael? And the comic book and the Polar Bear and all the other season 1 mysteries? And why couldn’t anyone have a baby on the island? And what was the DEAL with Ben Linus making Kate dress up all special and have dinner with him? And why did the statue have 4 toes? No explanation of the island, why it was the way it was, why Dharma wanted it so bad, why Widmore needed it? And why did they show hours of footage of people wandering around the church happy? Oh, it wasn’t hours? Just felt like it.

Jin and Sun had the best story, though.

7.

Just read a YA fantasy novel that was great. It’s a Bluebonnet award winner: The Cabinet of Wonders, by Marie Rutkowski.

It’s about a girl, Petra, whose father can work metal magic. He makes tin pets and inventions and makes a special clock for the Prince. The prince repays his work by stealing his eyes (reminiscent of the original Oz series from L. Frank Baum, where the the villainess tries to steal Dorothy’s head).  Petra vows to get them back and ends up doing more than just looking to restore her father’s sight.  Petra has friends, old and new, who can work their own magic including glass inventions and pickpocketing (They aren’t your standard socerer-casting-spell type magicians.)

It’s quite an adventure, and it’s interesting without adult scenes or gory descriptions.  It’s set in Medieval Bohemia, which is a nice change from the usual English style fantasy landscape.