Monday, January 30, 2012

The Amazing, Shrinking Mountain

What used to be a mountain of Michael's "100 Days of Gifts" has dwindled to a small pile, but that's great news around here.  He has less than a week left of his isolation.  He'll have to wait for a few days after the actual 100 marker until his next clinic visit on the 7th to officially end this loooong house arrest.  In the meantime, the gifts are still a wonderful treat each day.

For those of you keeping score at home, the recent two weeks have brought:
  • Would You Rather?, Hit the Deck, Farkle, Skipbo, I Spy, Monopoly Deal, Mad Gab, and math games
  • Andes mints, Twix, 3 Musketeers, candy corn,  Reese's, Tootsie Pops, Oreos, M&M's, Hershey's, and gum
  • Melting art kit, paper airplane making book/kit
  • Growing nutcracker figure
  • Glow sticks
  • Rubix cube
  • Slime, Flarp, Silly string
  • Slinky
  • Punch balloons
  • Wooden brain teaser
  • Water gun (the whole family thanks this anonymous and incredibly thoughtful giver!)
  • Miniature basketball
  • Cardinal's stuffed baseball character
This list alone is overwhelming and generous.  Michael is so grateful to all of you.  We'll let you know the final tally soon.  When the 100 days are over.  In less than a week.  Oh, have I already mentioned that?  About almost finishing the 100 days of isolation?   Pardon me, please.  As an English teacher, I know better than to be redundant.  It's just hard to focus on good writing on Day 95 (which is really close to Day 100)!

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