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I will begin by writing about milk. I have a friend who has a cow and she is bringing me fresh, raw, beautiful milk. With this milk I have been making fun milk products with my family. These products include, butter, buttermilk, mozzarella cheese and drinking milk. That's right. I'm that woman. Of course, this is all on the learning curve and there is room for improvement, but, I'm looking forward to making fresh pushki butter from the milk of the cows who have been nibbling on the fresh pushki shoots in the spring. My mom said she hates fresh milk because when she was young the cows were eating wild onions from the fields of their farm and the milk and butter tasted like onions! I told her people pay big money for that flavor now...

Marina is off at the Challenger Learning Center today on a field trip to learn about climate change and its impact on the planet. She is not seeing how this could be a fun or interesting mission or why it has anything to do with space. She can be such a mumbler! This is a new program NOAA is creating to help students understand planetary changes due to climate change. Marina doesn't understand why CLC would need to create an entire program for this as she feels it should be obvious (after our short visit to China especially). I explained that there are many people in the country who don't understand the scientific definition of 'Theory' - as in Theory of Gravity vs. 'I have a theory that my teacher will be absent from school today'. Should be interesting to see what she comes home with!

The Girl Scouts have been busy. We have taken a trip to the veterinary clinic to learn about becoming vets and we cooked Sri Lankan Food for International Thinking Day. Yes, most troops brought pizza and said they were Italian. These troops have smart and sane troop leaders. The girls loved cooking such complicated recipes and we really had a blast.

On the other side of the giftedness spectrum, Falcom is in the middle of spirit week and today is dress up like a celebrity day. Seems like it should have been a no brainer, but... As it is with genius, the more you know the less able to be decisive one becomes... Drama! He wanted to be CeLo but was afraid of getting teased for wearing an earring and that friends would pull them off. He wanted to go as Jennifer Tilly but I felt the reference was too obscure for middle school. I also didn't see how he could get teased more for CeLo than Ms. Tilly, but...this is modern middle school so who can say. He ended up going as an obscure indy rocker. And so the middle school turns.

Now that I have sufficiently worked into the blog far enough to where the non readers will have already bailed, I can talk about W. Mema and I 'borrowed' him from K after my last blog post. We had a super day together. I got a lot off my chest and I was able to see for myself how bad off he is cognitively without the structure, sleep, and nutrition necessary for kids with his disability need to have in order to be successful. It was truly a miracle of a day. Lucy happened to call from Guam and talk to him. He got to go to therapy with us so that Falcom could get the closure he needs. Marina got to slap him and hug him.

Little did I know that K would totally freak. She took to her facebook and posted how he was missing. Her sister had to cut school to help find him. I was about to bring W home to her when a young father and friend of W's showed up at Mema's and brought him a charged cell phone. Seriously. W decided to go back with K and hugged me tight and promised to call me the next day. He was so happy to know that we love him and that we are always here for him.

The next day I got a text telling me "Hey Mom, just letting you know I can't do veggie boxes with you today. I'm very sorry, I had plans with - for Valentine's day." All that formal writing! proper use of punctuation. Amazing... and he spent the day with the boys after K dropped him off with them. There is more to this sad story, but unfortunately it makes the younger parties involved look like such morons that I'm not going to bother reliving it for you. Anyway,

I continue to hold firmly to the belief that God will give me ideas about what to do and that I will carry through with my soul promise to both W and to the mother of K.

Speaking of mothers, mine had two surgery's in a week! First the leg and then 'the eye'! That is right! Mema spent a whole day with one working leg and one working eye. She doesn't believe this but she is actually doing really well and just because she doesn't feel great does not mean that she is not doing great. Good job Mema!

Falcom and I had a date to see the Air Force party band "Top Cover". Falcom had seen them play at the middle school and loved it so we decided to go together last night. Of course, the minute he gets there his friends see him and our date is over. No problem...I got to sit with Valda instead.

What else, what else? I was gifted a restaurant espresso machine. It wasn't working and Vince has been fixing it with the help of a tremendous man who works on these up in the valley. The main goal or having it is fundraisers, but the thought of having a delicious drink here at home is killer! Thank you Vince... you are an angel!

Alright! I'm off to making milk products!