Tonight I had an evening that was just so nice, I wanted to record it for posterity.

First of all, just like the homeopath said would happen, Curious J’s fever was gone today.  I took her temp this morning, and it was exactly 37 degrees Celsius, which is exactly 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.  Totally normal.  J was back to her usual cheery self today.  I am definitely going to be learning more about homeopathy.

Secondly, after Lyd lost it emotionally during afternoon recess today (I was outside on the playground with Curious J, who likes to see all the schoolkids, and I noticed that Lyd was not playing with the other kids and was melting down about something not going her way), I took her home a little early and declared today a nap day.  She couldn’t seem to stop crying, however.  Everything in her life was wrong!  So, since Pulsatilla is a remedy for illnesses characterized by weepiness (and because I also know that a homeopathic remedy won’t cause any side effects if it’s not the right remedy), I gave her a small dose of Pulsatilla.  She still couldn’t seem to pull it together enough to stop whining and crying, so I also gave her a Bach Rescue Remedy pastille for the first time.  I told her it was candy with some medicine in it that would help her calm down and stop crying.  And after that, she took a 2.5 hour nap!

But, what I really wanted to say was that after waking up from this much-needed nap, she was SO cheerful!  She was making silly jokes and laughing and pleasant to be around and just a delight.  She’s almost always a happy, cheerful girl, but tonight she was especially so.  It was just lovely.

At supper tonight, Curious J did not hardly fuss at all during the meal.  I tend to get the food on too late, when J’s already getting quite tired.  But, I do the best I can.  Also, the food I’ve been making lately is not stuff that she can eat, so she’s been getting more jarred baby food, which she seems to be liking less and less.  But tonight, I had supper on the table slightly after 6pm, and I made baked salmon, plain steamed carrots, and noodles out of a box.  I didn’t give her those noodles, but I made some small shell noodles for her and shredded some cheddar cheese on top, and she ate that.  She loved the salmon and gobbled up the carrots like nobody’s business!  I think she enjoyed feeding herself; I’ll have to find more meals where she can do that.  Anyway, she’s been so fussy at mealtimes for at least the past week, so to have her smiling and pleasant and giggly tonight was a treat.

But BEST OF ALL was the fact that my husband’s laptop turned on tonight!!!  He’s known for a long time that his laptop doesn’t turn back on easily once it’s turned off.  So, he didn’t turn it off often.  Last week, he decided to try and get it fixed.  It turned out that the cure is almost as much as buying a new laptop.  But, neither he nor the computer repair guys could get his computer to turn back on.  It was off for over a week, and JJ had to use our family computer in the toy room to do his work on, which was NOT FUN for any of us.

But tonight!  Tonight he tried One More Time, and it turned on!!!  Joy and bliss!!!  He can now access his Libronix computer program, the one that compares Greek or Hebrew texts with any Bible translation he chooses, and it has a whole host of other features useful in writing sermons.  He had to do his sermon text exegesis by hand last week, and he was not amused to have to go back to the “old-fashioned” way of doing things.  But now his computer is back on!  He can access his files!  He doesn’t have to use our family’s computer anymore!  I can’t tell you what a change that made in his mood, and his good mood spilled over onto our whole family.

So, we had a lovely family supper hour together tonight, filled with laughter and silliness, delicious, healthy food (Alaskan salmon – $15 a pound, but so worth it!) and happiness all around.  Lyd told me more than once, and I quote, “Thank you, Momma, for making salmon – it’s my favorite!”  How many 5 year olds say that?

(Well, yes, I trained my child to thank me for making supper for her.  But it was nice to hear her say it of her own volition and with such enthusiasm tonight!)

Hee hee.  And now I have my own computer back!  It’s wonderful!