Author: Doris

Everyone is sick today.  Well not everyone, just Vince and Edda.  I knew that on Sunday during the day when both children were sound asleep on the couch in the living room that there was going to be no real first day of school.

Here’s Edda in slightly healthier times:

Tomorrow is the first day of school – first day of middle school for Vince, but neither child is going to make it to school tomorrow. They both are running fevers and spent the whole day asleep under covers and moaning at the closest adult around. I’m thankful that Vince has learned to swallow pills and Edda can manage the chewable pills so now there is no sticky children liquid medicine in the house. It’s been such a wonderful summer that maybe the kids are protesting that it shouldn’t really end, that school shouldn’t really start. I’m not that worried about Edda’s schedule, she has the same teacher and the same paraeducators – but Vince! He missed orientation last week when he was in NY with Jeremy’s parents (and the kids all got their schedules then) and now he’s going to miss the first day of class – he’s going to be totally clueless when he shows up on the 2nd or 3rd day of class. I hope he’s not too lost when he shows up.

It has been a beautiful weekend, we got to spend part of it in the Catoctin Mountains with our pal, Carla.  Edda hiked about 0.4 miles with us on her own two feet, but then she got tired and we put her in her stroller and went on a wheelchair accessible trail – you can see it in the 2nd photo below.  They made a path with rubberized wood chips in a brown color so you can’t really tell that it’s made with space age polymer technology.

We were originally not going to take any dogs on this trip as they can be trouble, but Ruby somehow sensed we were going someplace fun and hopped into the minivan and pretty much refused to get out.  And she was right, it was a lot of fun – streams and mud galore.

At the Billy Goat Trail!

Jeremy’s college roommate, Alan, just moved with his family to Long Island. So on the way to Bard we stopped by and said hello. They live so close to the beach – it was fun to dip our feet into the water.  A few of us (Vince and Ruby) might have dipped in a little too much. 

Sometimes Edda can really enjoy the beach and love it a million and one times over.  But this was not one of those times, she was OK with it, but not entirely thrilled.

We drove up to Bard College this weekend to drop Vince off at Kiki and Kappa’s house for a week of Kiki Camp. Both Jeremy and I took Friday and Monday off for travel – so it meant that we spent 2 full days with Jeremy’s family which made for a very nice weekend.  We didn’t do much – cooked, walked, found some cows and ate some farm-stand fruit.  Oh – mainly we played with Jeremy’s parent’s new puppy!  Pip (short for Phillip) pretty much stole the show.