Did you know that letters and numbers are people too?

"O is a boy," Apollo said last night while I was helping him write his report on Alligators.
"What?" Who is O and what has this got to do with alligators?
"O is a boy," he repeated, and then pointed to his paper, "and A is a girl."
And immediately I knew what he was talking about. I couldn't help but get a little excited. All my life numbers have lived a secret life inside my head--5's were jolly fat men with top hats and 4's were their cranky, skinny wives; 3's were their precocious naked toddlers and they lived in the number 20; 1 was a skinny old wrinkly man; 0 was a magician; 7 was a rebellious teenager that grew up to be the wise and noble 49; 8 was a sexy lady of course, though 64 smelled like lipstick and carried a patent leather handbag...well, you get the idea.
However, I have never anthromorphized letters. So I was very interested.
"Why is O a boy?"
"Because he's just plain, and a has a ponytail."
Makes sense to me.
He went on...S's are snakes (of course), B's are butterflies....
t's are dads, standing with their arms out...e's are talking with their mouths open....y's are swimmers--straight body with one arm out doing a stroke...p's are swimming too, but they are just bobbing in the water...and my favorite, k's are kissing with the < being the lips doing the kissing.
I think there were more but I can't remember them all. I was just excited that someone finally gets my way of thinking. Or at least admits it out loud.

Roots Up, Roots Down

So, glory hallelulah, our house in Jersey sold!

We were sweating it when, days after the inspection, a tree fell down on the property and tore up the gas line and killed our air conditioning. The whole culdesac had to be evacuated. All I could think was, "Really? Really?!?" But after about a week of mulling it over, the buyers decided that they would still buy the house, after we got the landscaping and air conditioning fixed.

It wasn't easy to coordinate a clean up from NC, but the deal went through last Thurs. and we celebrated all weekend. Mainly by shopping at IKEA.

We know we are really lucky and blessed to have sold the house already. In Alabama, it took us almost a year. So now we are ready to really settle in here.

Dig me a hole and call me a tree. I'm not going anywhere else for a long time.