random musings

1. I had lunch with an old Moncks Corner friend who visited us in Mozambique when she was in the Peace Corps in Cape Verde. Mac was a young 6 month-old baby when Liz and her Peace Corps friend visited. We reminisced about that visit (I'd totally forgotten that she learned how to drive stick shift in our big Land Rover while we were in Kruger National Park so I could get in the back seat to tend to a fussy baby) and caught up on life in general, but the real highlight for me was meeting Liz's very own perfect baby who turned 8 weeks old today. This kid is destined to be an NBA star. He was born over 22 inches long and I can tell you that I've never seen an 8 week-old baby who takes up so much length in a carseat. He's going to have to work on his bad-boy image if he intends to make it big in the NBA, though. During our 2 hours together, he never made a peep!

2. I hear and believe all these great stories of heroism and bravery and sacrifice on the part of the soldiers Jimmy's working with in Afghanistan. But somebody stole Jimmy's camera today. Clearly these soldiers need to make more money if they're stealing $200 cameras.

3. Mac drank the Kool-Aid tonight and is now officially a Tiger Cub Scout. His largest concerns at the moment? When do we go to the Scout store to buy the uniform and does he have to eat the fish they catch when they go fishing? When I answered "soon" and "no", he was happy as a clam.

4. The second piano lesson was today. Mac announced at dinner that he thought he needed to give up piano lessons because they're "boring". He's still stuck on black keys but he learned half and quarter notes today, so we're moving forward. And no, he's not quitting piano lessons after the second lesson. We just got the piano tuned, so he's got to take for a bunch longer than that to justify that poor piano tuner's time for so little money doing such HARD work. You have no idea how bad that piano sounded before!!