No such thing as an average day.

So I woke up and it was a looking like the beginnings of a blah average day.  Then Zach grabbed my face to give me a kiss goodbye at school and complemented my new haircut.  He’s been telling me how much he likes it since Adam told him I had it done.  That one thing from Zach was enough to make the day better already. 

Then I got home and was flipping through the newest Woman’s Day (September issue) and my day got even better.  I came across an article about a mom whose kid had neuroblastoma and she started a non profit that raises money for research.  I did a double take.  This kind of article isn’t something you come across often unfortunately.  Great job Woman’s Day for highlighting a disease that is rare, but takes the lives of more kids each year than more than asthma, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and pediatric AIDS combined.  It is a start.  More advertising/articles need to be written to inform the public of childhood cancer. 

In fact, I’ve convinced the local paper back home to do an article each week in September featuring a different local family that has been affected by childhood cancer.  Another small victory for the bald kids. 

Zach is getting to be a regular comedian these days too.  He was showing me his ‘magic wands’ from school (which are un-sharpened pencils) and how he could do this and that with them.  I asked what was on them and he told me dinosaurs and dogs – but not cats ‘cause cats are weird.  This observation is based on him seeing the cats at the pet store jump around in the cages and fall on their heads.  He doesn’t see why any animal would do that – so they are indeed weird. 

He’s also been really into reading his Bible.  We were in Walmart about a 2 years ago and this man came up to Zach and offered him a small pocket Bible and $5.  Ever since then he carries it around with him and will ‘read’ out of it.  What’s really funny is when he’s trying to sell you on something he’ll go and get the Bible and flip it open to a page and point to a spot and say, “See right here?  It says ….whatever he wants it to say to prove his point.”  We’ve been reading stories out of his kids Bible and he’s really into pointing out things God made while we ride anywhere. 

So God made the trees, the clouds, the rain, the sky, those swans and mean gooses and …..Smurfs!  That’s a new one.  The little blue people have been a collection item at his school for the last 2 weeks.  There was a competition between his class and another class of which class could collect the most Smurfs.  The other class won – but only because that pre-k teacher cheated.  Seriously.  She went to McDonald’s and just bought all the different Smurfs they had.  So now the losing class, aka Zach’s class, gets to be painted blue.  Thanks a lot lady.  All the parents should send the kids to her to clean up all that paint – that will teach her to not cheat pre-k’ers again.

There hasn’t been any blue paint yet.  Maybe they will forget about that part of the competition.  If not, I promise to take pictures of my blue child.  Turned out not to be such an average day after all.