The Good and the Not so Good

It’s almost 9pm and I have no idea how we managed to fit so much activity into the day. But, we did it and it hasn’t killed any of us – yet. My ears are threatening to explode any moment and TW is at the laundromat where any number of odd things could happen. But for now, we are all alive and semi-well and I’m ready to share some good and not so good stuff we learned today.



Eragon the movie, not so good if you were hoping to see a film that stuck closely to the book. Good if you’re just into dragons and special effects and such. Not so good if you were expecting werecats and faeries.



Having a sister who sends children Shut the Box (a really beautiful version) and just the right sketch kits for each child and all of the solution books for Treasure Trove and The Alchemist Dar is very good. Not being able to find the original Treasure Trove book on the shelf is not so good, (it should be with the purple books and it isn’t!).


Super Snow in a Bag from Dunecraft is very good but the slippery sidewalks after snow fights, well, not so good. Luckily the postman and the Fedex guy and the UPS guy walked carefully and nobody took a fall.


Vegetarian meatballs from gardenburger, very good. Spaghetti sauce all over an eight year old who wants to hug everyone right this second, including the cats – not so good.


It’s nice when even the not so good stuff is pretty ok, isn’t it?