Saturday, August 27, 2016

Allergic To Life

My brain is made up of chicken feet today, scaly, scratchy and scratching, befitting the ends of dinosaur legs.
Sometimes I can calm it with doing stuff and I did stuff and it was too hot, really, for the stuff I was doing so I finally came inside and Lily texted and asked if maybe the boys could come have a sleep-over and so of course I said yes and they came over and here is what Maggie looked like, wearing one of her brothers' hats from Cuba.


Pretty girl and her pretty mommy. 

Boppy set up the pool and the boys got in where they tussled like puppies and when they got out, Gibson was covered in itchy red welts and is the child allergic to water? Lily was my hivey child. Gibson is hers. 


I gave him half a Benadryl and he's fine now. They are putting a puzzle together with their grandfather, drinking hot cocoa and wearing their Christmas pajamas. 
"I'm a pajama guy now," Owen informed me. And so he is. 


Suddenly, it looks like rain and it smells like rain, that sharp ionic tang, the ozone that comes with it, but I don't think we're going to get anything here. Maybe next week when the storm that's trying to make up its mind as to what it wants to be when it grows up travels our way. 



If it travels our way.

The radar right now just shows bits and blobs, moving from east to west, not unlike the welts on Gibson's body, but green rather than red. It makes me feel itchy. 
Scratchy. 

I need a Benadryl for the brain. 

I want rain. 




13 comments:

  1. Oh, those boys, that baby and pretty, pretty Lily. A sweet world of love there at Maw Maw and Bopie's.

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    1. It's a grandparent house here for sure. Lots of magic for little ones to get into.

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  2. How is school for Gibson? Still "bad"? Also, maybe your meds should come back into the picture??

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    1. Some things are less bad at school for Gibson. I think he likes it, he just doesn't want to admit it.
      Nope. Not ready to go back on meds. Still feeling better now than I did on them.

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    2. Good to hear both of those things!

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  3. I was thinking of you and came to leave another comment on your last post.

    Lily is looking radiant. And I always love the pictures of your beautiful grandkids. I hope it is easier for you to breathe tomorrow.

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    1. I feel pretty okay today. Isn't Lily beautiful? The peach didn't fall far from that tree.

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  4. Same here, waiting for rain, throats itching from too high ozone levels. I watered the garden late last night, sweat pouring down my back, cursing under my breath.

    Your grandkids are gorgeous!

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    1. Everyone keeps saying, "It'll be cool again soon."
      It's hard to believe even though it must be true.
      Thank you for saying that about my grands.

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  5. We had cool cool air and today a promise of rain. I'm sending it all toward you dear Mary.

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    1. Thank you, dear Rebecca. May we all get some rain, some break in this swelter.

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  6. I do get tired of rain day after day in England sometimes but like you I miss it when it doesn't come.

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  7. Maybe Gibson has a latex allergy? Some people do. Is there latex in an inflatable swimming pool? I have no idea!

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