Just got back from dropping #1 GS off at school after his weekly night at grandma’s house.   I have forgotten what a seventh grader is like—and 7^th graders today are so much more worldly than I was, and the world has changed dramatically.  Gotta watch every site he visits on the internet, listen to the music he listens to.  

Anyway, I love having him spend the night.  I still read to him until he falls asleep, though the books I read are now young adult lit.  Right now, he is reading “Monster” by Walter Dean Myers.   Good book, great author!    Having him spend the night keeps me current on teenagers today, gives me a refresher course on YA lit, AND it forces me out of bed early.  If I don’t have something that gets me up early, I roll out at 10 something.   This way, I can get things done that need to be done.

I stopped at the pet store on the way home to get food for my cats, mice, and fish.  Of those three species, the only ones that seemed eager and even grateful to me were the cats.  I even bought special treats for the mice, and only two of the three even bothered to come out of their ‘den’ to check things out.  The other two seem to be not getting along right now.  Maybe they need me to rearrange their house so they have something else to pay attention to besides each other.  The fish are kind of deep in the pond and slowing down due to the weather, so they were not exactly rushing to nibble on the pond sticks like they were two weeks ago.

Besides cleaning the house and my car today, I don’t have a lot to do.  Writing my blogs seems to be not as exciting anymore—maybe because my life isn’t as dramatic as it was a few years ago.  A blog about my pets seems a bit ho-hum, but it what it is.

Gotta go clean my car.  I’ll try to write tomorrow.