My sister made it through surgery OK, but I know little else about how she is doing right now.

My daughter had a good first day of 5th grade although her math teacher had the kids make up math problems to answer common "getting to know you" type questions with numbers - siblings, pets, etc. I sure hope she's not going to pass out their sheets to other students to solve because my daughter was writing things like "My favorite number is between 3 & 4." Her current favorite number is pi. Writing algebra equations or saying it was this number written in binary or hexadecimal or the number is the square root of some number. She is gifted & talented, and math is her best subject. She's in a dual language Spanish/English program in her school, and she has many classmates with Spanish as a first language who struggle with English already, on top of getting slammed with a bunch of math terms they never heard of. I would not be at all surprised if her math teacher sends me an email about her soon. I already told the teacher she loves math & it's her best subject, though her grades are high even in her worst subject. She reads at a 12th grade level, so I had to email the language arts teacher to ask her to assign a reading level lower than 12th grade, so my daughter can find books in the school library and so she can read fiction books dealing with things a 10 year old girl would like to read about, such as things happening to kids in middle school, not high school love stories or vampires. My daughter is a bit of a quirky one and quite the parenting challenge as she has tons of sensory issues.

Dinner was OK. I generally eat normally; it's just I overexercise and don't eat enough calories to combat that. There is also the complication that I did have to have surgery for that perforated ulcer and the surgery or the Protonix I'm supposed to take for my stomach can cause vitamin & fat malabsorption issues. So maybe that contributes, who knows?