Obligatory Thankful Rant

So I went to dictionary.com to make sure I spelled obligatory correctly, but I mispelled dictionary, apparently there is a dictionaryy.com also, seems wrong to mispell some words on purpose, dictionary, educated, schooling, intelligence, you get the idea.

I confess to have mocked the blogging world while Greydon was in the hospital. I would get home, create a post about the daily happenings and medical status, add in a few of the 20 photos taken that day, then check out other blogs. I couldn't understand how nobody could post more than every few days at most.... it has been over a week now since I posted. Now that he is home I'd rather sit and stare at him than decide which picture to share.... So I apologize to the spirtis of the blog, I am now one of the happhazard posters.

One reason for not having a ton of time and energy to post is I'm pretty confident the education system is highly flawed, and yes I have a solution. It is ridiculous that all of your courses at the university or high school or wherever all start at the same time. This means that all of your classes are easy at the same time, all of them hand out mid-term exams at the same time, and all of them require big huge crazy intricate final projects at the same time.. who came up with this system?

Here is my solution. Let's just visualize a two hour school day to make my point easier to layout. At the beginning of the year let's say biology meets for both of those hours. A third of the way through the year Biology only meets the first hour and let's say math starts and takes up the second hour. Two thirds of the way through the year Biology gets over, and for the remainder of the year Math takes up both hours. Now, both classes have had the exact same amount of instuction time available to them, but being off-sett biology end of term exams do not happen at the same time as the math exams. Yes I am a genius, and if I ever get a degree and am stupid enough to go back for more schooling, I'll use this as my master's thesis..... assuming of course that in the year 2030 we still have universities, or electricity.

Hey, I havn't posted for over a week, there's bound to be some rambling!

OK, thankful thankful thankful

I am thankful for oxygen tubes and monitor wires, although they are quite the tripping hazard.... I am also thankful that I only watched my mom spin in circles trying not to fall over with tubes wrapped around her ankle and didn't have to watch her actually hit the ground.

I am thankful that baby poo currently comes off into the diaper pretty easy, I'm guessing that this may not be on my list by next Thanksgiving.

I am thankful for fashionable little baby brown plaid pants, they make me so happy I could just spit.

I am thankful for diaper technology, you can re-adjust diaper tabbs when you don't like the first placement! That's so cool, and handy. I can't imagine using cloth diapers, sorry Mr. Environment, I'm wrapping my baby's butt in plastic. I'd be perfectly willing to use plutonium, the last drop of a non-renewable resource, or baby seal flippers coated in bald eagle feathers if it helped make diaper changing at 3 am go even a little smoother.

I am thankful for cups of hot water. It is amazing that I can pull a lever in my kitchen and have instant hot water to warm up baby bottles in. I don't have to light a fire and dangle something over an open flame. There is a limited range of temperatures of milk Greydon apprecates, I am thankful they are so easy to acheive.

I am thankful for digital photography and magical little pieces of plastic that store 400 pictures. I used to be a darkroom snob, but not anymore, I love pulling up oodles and oodles of pictures by a click and a clack.

I am thankful to be able to walk, stand, run or sway, move both of my legs and both of my arms and have them do what my mind asks of them.

I am thankful to be able to hear music, and be able to glide and move to it. I am thankful to work with teenagers bursting with life, radiant with energy and optimism. I am thankful for so many students who I get to help learn how to sway and glide to the music. I am thankful for all they teach me.

I am thankful to have a voice, be it through my mouth or through my typing fingers. I am thankful for inspired music, the opportunity to have it touch my heart and the opportunity to help it touch the hearts of others. I am thankful to choir members who are thankful for their voices and take the opportunity to share them.

I am thakful for blogs. I have truly enjoyed feeling reconnected, or just connected in the first place, to so many people. It amazes me that anyone not legally required to care about my well being would take the time to follow the progress of my son, and by default myself and Kristen. Thank you for that. A thoughtful word goes straight to my heart and plants a little flower. Since the birth of Greydon my heart has become a veritable garden of gratitude.

I am thankful for having ten years to learn how to now appreciate my new found bundle of miracles. I am thankful everytime he breaths in and breaths out and then breaths in again, I am thankful every time my hand rests on his rising and lowering chest and alarms don't sound. I am thankful for his little heart and that the extra holes weren't big enough to cause problems. I am thanful that someone went through enough midterms, final projects and new classes to earn the degree of doctor and learn how to push my son's little intestines back to where they are supposed to be and sew up his hernias. I am thankful that there is always a pediatrician on call, even late on a Sunday night to take him to go see, even when it ends up he was just a little backed up. I am thankful everytime he fills his diaper and his little intestines aren't blocked and work without any assistance. I love everytime my boy looks at my face, and just looks, and then just looks. I am thankful everytime he looks and for the vessels that are continuing to develop to give him the vision, perripheral or other, that lets him look at me, my weird hair, his favorite mobile or the little glowing and flashing star or his mom. I am thankful for my chest hair that gets ripped out by his strong little hands that work so perfect. I am thankful for his ugly little old man hair that is so soft and smells just like him. I am thankful for a wife who loves to be a mom. I am thankful for my mom who is such a good gradmother. I am thankful for a father who asks how everything is going and then listens to how everything is going. I am thankful for far away sisters who keep us in their thoughts, look up the blog with co-workers and keep us in their prayers amongst house moves, horses, and relationships. I am thankful for a brother who is happy for our happiness as he looks for new jobs, safe apartments and takes care of his own babies. I am thankful for in-laws who are in love with my little boy and can't wait to spoil the heck out of him. I am thankful I get a little tear as I think of all of things I have to be thankful for. I am thankful to have friends and family and friends who are like family. I am truly blessed.