Sweet

After hearing my plight about needing to stay away from sugar including all chocolate and candy, our department assistant put out starburst at her desk this morning. This is the hardest place for me to ignore the candies, because it’s right next to the printer so I have to look at it every time I print a letter.

I’m convinced she hates me, and this is passive aggressiveness at its finest (possibly not far off, I’m sure).

I bought Spencer a watch this past weekend for an “early birthday present”. He did not really understand the point of an early birthday present, kept asking ‘what’s an early birthday present? What’s that MEAN?” until finally I was like ‘listen, kid. Is today your birthday? No. Am I getting this for you? Yes.’

Truthfully, I’ve already bought him his birthday presents, but I wanted to get him a new watch. I’ve been looking at them for a while, but all the kid ones have plastic clasps and he’ll break that in a small child’s minute (that’s quicker than a New York minute).  I finally found one that I think may be a woman’s watch, because it’s slender with a small face. But it’s Mickey, not girly, and it’s just black and white. He doesn’t think it’s girly (and he’s unfortunately very attuned to that) and seems to like it so it’s a win. The only bad thing right now is he can’t figure out how to read it, since it’s one of those where Mickey’s hands are the clock hands, and that confuses him. I have confidence – he’ll figure it out.

His other presents are: The box set of Harry Potter movies, Hidden Mickeys, and a US and World map for his bedroom wall. The boys got so many toys for Christmas and I just weeded out so many old things, I didn’t really want to get him any more toys. I know he’ll get some anyhow, but this way it’s just less. I cannot believe that he’ll be six in a few short weeks. Now I have to figure out the whole party situation. I'm thinking we're going to do the same as last year - a breakfast party with bagels and fruit and cheese and coffee at a local playground.