I forget if I posted this yet

A few weeks ago, we were at the Y and Eva was waiting for the clock to hit 4 so she could go and change. I refuse to let her go into the locker room when Ana does and then sit around 45 minutes. Technically, kids aren't supposed to use the women's locker room unless they're really very small, but nobody minds so long as they don't cause trouble, and if she's limited in how long she can hang out there she won't start playing with the hair dryers, as she is wont to do. (I don't want to sit there with her. The smell of chlorine wafts through, and gives me a headache. Forget it!) The two of them hate the girls' locker room, probably because it has too many boys, but I'm not very clear on that.

So at 3:45, Eva gets up to walk to the locker room and I haul her back down. So she turns to me and says, very seriously "Connie. If you love something, you let it go. Then, if it's really yours, it might come back to you someday."

"Interesting. But you forgot something."
"What?"
"I won't love you that much until 4pm."

Since then, I've tried that line on her every time she hug tackles me. She now insists that it runs "If you love something, you rip it apart limb from limb". These children are scary!

Also: It was still light out when we left Eva's swim class. I'd told Ana that I don't want her traveling home after dark alone, but if it's still light out when Eva leaves class then Ana has time to get home after her own class before the sun goes down. I'm acting like I don't love the idea, but I do. If Ana gets herself home, she can start something easy for dinner for us, like potatoes or pasta, and then dinner isn't late once a week.

***********************************************************

Western Spy Agencies Secretly Rely on Hackers for Intel and Expertise

A World Overflowing With Debt

TurboTax Temporarily Halts E-Filing In All States Amid Fraud Concerns

Yemen crisis: Houthi rebels 'announce takeover'

Yes, ISIS Burned a Man Alive: White Americans Did the Same Thing to Black People by the Thousands

Supreme Court of Canada strikes down ban on doctor-assisted suicide

The Brazilian Town Where the American Confederacy Lives On

New algorithms allow autonomous systems to deal with uncertainty

New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers

‘A Line in the Sand’ in Fight to Release Thousands of Prisoner Abuse Photos

Mushroom kills with cookie cutter trick

U.S. pressing Cuba to restore diplomatic ties before April - officials

Gotcha: Satellites Help Strip Seafood Pirates Of Their Booty

Among New York Subway’s Millions of Riders, a Study Finds Many Mystery Microbes

Ukraine crisis: Russia tests new weapons

Cute Killers? Gray Seals Maul, Suffocate Seals and Porpoises, Studies Say

Full-color moving holograms in high resolution

Isolated Greece wants no more bailout money with strings

Islamic State says Jordanian air strike kills US hostage

Wow. Autism Speaks has finally said something we can all agree with.

The end times must be nearing. They think you ought to get your kids vaccinated. I wonder what it feels for them to finally have their foot extracted from their collective mouth, however brief this moment may be?

******************************************

New ISIS video shows children in class, men at 'Sharia institute'

Syria's Bloody Civil War Taking Back Seat to IS Horrors

Syria death toll now exceeds 210,000: rights group

Cheap and abundant chemical outperforms precious metals as a catalyst

Undersea Volcanoes Could Affect Climate Change

Measles cases at Chicago-area day care center rise to 5

Germany is battling a measles outbreak that is 10 times worse than the one in the U.S.

Woman's stool transplant leads to 'tremendous weight gain'

Cyber-Attacks Rising in Utah, Likely Due to NSA Facility

Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko Saturday brandished in front of world leaders several passports taken from Russian soldiers in what he said was proof of Moscow's "presence" in his country

Shivering, Hungry and Tearful in Rebel-Held Eastern Ukraine

Ukraine’s currency just collapsed 50 percent in two days

Ukrainian government troops are being outgunned by pro-Russian rebels because they lack new anti-tank weapons and radars, a military expert says.

HIV deaths among African Americans drops 18%

African Union forces may exacerbate Boko Haram threat

Russia Sends Nuclear Submarine Troops on Arctic Exercise

McCain to Pentagon: Don’t let your aircraft carriers visit China

Gulf countries, opposition say Houthi takeover in Yemen a 'coup'

Floating wind turbines bring electricity where it's needed

In Bedbugs, Scientists See a Model of Evolution

Top UN Official Says 'Global War on Terror' Is Laying Waste to Human Rights

Chimps still stuck in research labs despite promise of retirement

Birth of a shadow doctrine: How a small group of lawyers launched a war against international law

IRS rehired hundreds of ex-employees with troubled records

US to Destroy Its Largest Remaining Chemical Weapons Cache

Among young Christians, moral discomfort with birth control grows

Octopus robot makes waves with ultra-fast propulsion