Viggy has been sick. That's my excuse for not updating this blog last week, falling behind in math, falling behind in Russian, the messy bedroom, and a few other things I haven't thought of yet.
He's doing better, but for a while he was really out of it. I, of course, did my best to be a good and supportive wife. Unfortunately for Viggy, my best isn't all that great when it comes to supportive.
Fortunately, after a few days of rest and lots of medicine he's doing better. He was still home today, including during the early afternoon when four of the girls' friends came over.
I think he'll be doing any further recuperation in the office.
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I've been considering a daily feature that would serve as a warning to prospective parents with no need for creativity on my part. It would be called "Why are we crying today," and would be only explanations I heard in the last 24 hours for heartbroken sobbing.
Here are four from this afternoon:
- Because Daddy opened the front door, and I wanted to be the one to open the front door.
- Because Daddy put ketchup on my plate when I asked him to, but it was only a little bit of ketchup and I wanted a lot of ketchup.
- Because I fell on my knee and it hurt - two hours ago.
- Because my best friend is leaving and I won't see her until tomorrow morning, which is like five whole waking hours away.
Maybe this does deserve its own Consider Yourself Warned, under D for Drama. But in the meantime, I'll be working on my next set of book reviews - unless the delightful miss SNAN inspires me to write about her again.
Dear Snan,
ReplyDeleteWow, really, am I delightful? I feel so honored.
I'm actually just writing to offer math help because I understand basic calculus in a comprehensive manner now and I know Dad's busy.
As for topics, what about how Snan and snan see various world situations? Glass half full? 90% full? Waking up in the morning?
Love(!),
snan
Aww, what a good stistar-snan!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I don't think the math that they're trying to make me learn can really be considered Calculus. I honestly don't know what to call it, or what darkest depths of math hell they summoned it from, but basically it's just using epsilon and delta to prove things over and over and over (another unfortunate reality - that explanation I just gave pretty much exhausted my grasp of the material).
I'm just finishing book 5 (of... 10? ish. I think) and we still haven't gotten to the derivative of x^2 being 2x or anything along those lines. I only wish I were kidding.
If epsilon and delta sound familiar, maybe you can help me even though it's non-calculus. But call me either way - if you can't help, you can still laugh at me as my attempts to figure it out turn me into a frustrated, drooling wreck. And you can remind me of our differences for SNAN and ALIRSNAN brainstorming.