Alesia took particular care in getting her
food last night at dinner, I noticed. We always help our plates from the stove
because our kitchen table is really small. I asked her what was up.
“I am trying
to cut down,” she
answered primly.
“She’s on a diet!” Michael said.
“Alesia, are
you trying to lose weight?” I asked, somewhat alarmed, as she’s not fat.
“No, I am
just trying to cut down. I am trying not to eat every hour,” she answered. I couldn’t laugh, of course.
“Sweetie,
your low blood sugar means you need to eat pretty often. You don’t have to eat every hour, but if
you eat 3 meals and 2 or 3 small snacks a day, you’ll be fine,” I reassured her.
I have never told her to eat every hour, but she has done it at school. Her school performance has improved a lot since she started eating more.
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I should have probably waited, but I decided
to go ahead and plant my new garden. I went to Home Depot at lunch and bought 3
more tomato plants, a flat of marigolds [they discourage insects], and seed for
green beans, corn [Silver Queen! The best], and sunflowers. I’m putting in the tomatoes just
so there will be something in there that’s up already. I don’t know how long it will take the seeds to germinate. My
kids love sunflower seeds. I also bought 2 bags of expensive potting soil. I
will plant each seed with its own potting soil hole, and work in the rest of
the soil into the dirt, and that should help. This winter I can put compost out
there and really enrich the soil.
When Mike saw me walk in the door with the new supplies he made a face and said "NO! NO MORE! Are you crazy??!!"
Well, yes, we've discussed that before, remember?!
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I came home early tonight to go to a meeting
at school about girls’ softball, but Alesia said she really didn’t want to do
softball. She agreed to take tennis lessons instead. I am pleased about the
tennis, but I wish she would do a team sport. Every kid needs to be on a team
at some time in their growing up years. I won’t push her beyond her comfort
level, though, not now anyway.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Every once in a while I see something that
really moves me. My friend at work sent me a clipping about a paralegal who
took on the case of a man wrongly accused of a crime, and eventually got him
exonerated. It’s
going to be a Lifetime TV movie in November. It's rare to see something in the news about a paralegal, even more rare to see something about an unusually brave paralegal. This lady is an ordinary person who saw a terrible injustice and took responsibility to help. Wouldn't the world be a better place if we all did that?
