It occurred to me, now that Elise is finished with her sucky, that I never wrote about her relationship with the sucky. Erin and I always found it very endearing that Elise wanted not one but two suckies most of the time. She would suck one and hold the other in her hand. Suck for a while, then switch. Suck for a while, then switch. Meanwhile, she would occasionally spin the sucky that was in her mouth. So it would go: Sucksucksuck, spin. Sucksucksuck spin. Switch. Sucksucksuck spin....

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Today, at age three years and four months, Elise decided to give up her sucky. I made a deal with her that we would go to Build a Bear (well, a knock-off at Walmart) when she was too big for her sucky. Today was the big day. Last time we were at WM buying groceries, she went into the stuffy shop and a dragon caught her eye. Today she said she was ready to go get the dragon.

The anti-sucky campaign was aided by a neat book I got out of the library, quite by accident I might add, called...

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One of the upsides of owning a house from 1983 is the renovation possibilities. One of the downsides of owning a house from 1983 is everything that needs to be done. Sigh.

Everywhere we turn, there is something else I want to replace. First the light switches were in the wrong spot, so we had that fixed. Then the florescent light in the kitchen went out and we hated the fixture, so I replaced that. The kitchen faucet was lousy (leaked water and the sprayer didn't work) so I was simply...

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"To live each day as if it were your last, you would be trying to remedy all the mistakes you had made, all the regrets, all the things unsaid. If you live each day as if it were your first, you are freed from all obligations, all guilt, all regret."

from Breathing Space: Twelve Lessons for the Modern Woman by Katrina Repka and Alan Finger

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