"i'm bored"

i'm not sure why my kids think i'm responsible for their boredom.  haven't i given them enough things to occupy themselves?  i think so, but they still tell me their bored.  sam had a friend over and they were occupied for a time, but then decided they wanted to build a plastic cup tower.  i was against it.  didn't want germs on my plastic cups when they tumbled to the floor, which they did.  i have to say, the tower was impressive when it was complete.  probably worth a few germs.

sometimes i wish that medical problems could be spread around a little amongst people.  it seems like isaac has more than he really needs.  today we were working on eyes.  one of isaac's eyes is defective.  he gets chronic sties.  in fact, he almost always has one and often more than one and it's a big pain.  i thought they could do a surgery that would fix him all up because he had surgery on a sty about six years ago.  but it turns out they can only operate on glands that become clogged and will not unclog, not glands that have sties develop, go away and then return.  boo.  so now we just have to use hot washrags and antibiotic ointment (which makes it really hard to see).  it's doesn't really seem like a solution to me.

jake and caroline went to the bountiful high basketball game tonight.