The best and the Worst

When Kate was a little girl I used to ask her to tell me about the best part of her day and the worst part of her day. Those answers could range all over the map and yesterday was just one of those days when i revisited that format. Because it was a hell of a day for me too.

The worst part of the day was having to talk to Alice about cutting back her hours to 3 days a week. everybody knew this was coming including Alice but we all pretended that it wouldn't. Alice has been with us for 10 years and is very much a part our daily routines. But her most important contribution is her on going and very steady relationship with Kate. Kate reads out loud to Alice, they laugh, Alice taught her how to play a killer game of Monopoly and they go everywhere together. It does sound like Alice is going away and that is not the case. But this represents change and neither Kate nor I do well with change and especially separation of this kind. I'm older therefore I can do a really good dog and pony about how great change is and how important it is. I don't always beleive it but as for seperation -- this is Kate's great bug a boo. Separation is a real mine field.

Ok so the best part of the day was a surprise gift from a good friend of her gently used Mac. Hooray. I smiled a whole lot and Kate did a war dance of pleasure. The Mac just has a different feel and looks amazing. I also always see people walking around holding their Macs and so that was the first thing I did too. Walk around with the Mac in one hand. Sold america. We have the worst lap tops in the world and they are mostly second hand. Arnie has a work computer and Kate can use it for homework and then we have one that is awful and SLOW and a mini that has never been a very successful addition to our electronics arsenal. And we also have a pretty old computer in Kate's room that Kate's friend quiz her about. What could it be? A computer? No way.

Way.