Moot Thoughts & Musings

Today Ellis lost his first helium balloon to the great vacuous sky.

It's so stinkin' hot. Our food supply took a big hit with the death of the refrigerator. The kitchen is a royal wreck, with frig parts and jars and garbage bags all over, cleaning efforts currently put on hold until the mad toddler is put to rest. So Ellis and I walked over to Friendly's for some dinner. (Friendly's is a Northeast chain, kind of like Denney's, but specializing in ice cream.) We got to wave "hi!" to our train along the way.

Well, dinner was uneventful if you discount the toddler that climbed all over me and the booth.

Afterwards he got a lovely green helium balloon with a curly ribbon. I attached it to his stroller, but didn't knot it too tightly because I wanted to be able to take it off once we got home. As we were crossing an intersection all of a sudden I looked up and saw the great green orb floating off into the heavenlies.

My poor boy!! The look of confusion and sadness in his eyes. When we got to the other side of the road, I tried to help him say goodbye to the swiftly disappearing green dot. "It's like an airplane now!" We got a gallon of milk at the convenience store. When we walked out on the sidewalk, he looked up again and signed "Balloon?" Poor kid. Guess we'll have to go to Trader Joe's tomorrow. We manage to keep ahold of their balloons.