Tonight I am contemplating Angelina Jolie. Actually, you will have to forgive me because I am writing this while watching Tomb Raider 2. Hence why I am contemplating Angelina Jolie. I feel enormous sympathy for her. I think it must be so hard to live in the public life so completely. She gets attacked no matter what she does. I think that if I had $50 billion dollars as my net worth (and frankly I actually don't!) I would likely do exactly what she is doing; trying to save the world at a UN level and at the same time trying to save the world one child at a time. I just feel sorry for her. I see Levi have so naturally that her children will never have, the freedom to run around without judgement.
She is so completely in the public eye it would be hard to find a way of being yourself. She is so completely torn apart and glorified at the same time, finding yourself in the middle would be just impossible. Her kids can't run around getting into trouble, falling into creeks (Yes, yes they did) and scraping themselves on deadwood. I just wish for her sake and theirs that they have a place like the creek. Somewhere far from prying eyes, far from nannies and cameras. I would hope that for their summer holidays they could find a place to run and be wild a little as our kids so easily do. I can imagine them here, but without anyone else, just being kids. It is so not fair on both sides of the spectrum. Being in the middle makes for a great life for these boys. They can be explorers with just enough fear to make it exciting. Well her family would be welcome here but I suspect that I won't have to get organized any time soon. I suspect that they will all be poorer for that fact!
The boys were so sweet together today, forging new paths and trying new ways. They both had a very different outlook to problem solving. Ty's theory was to never take a backward step. Levi's was to stand back and decide which direction, even if backward was the most sensible to get around an obstacle. They both got where they were going, but one was cleaner. I think that Levi was more wary partially because, contrary to my last post, he is, in fact, sick again.
He cooked again last night and was 103 something when he woke up. I put him in his soccer gear but we never left. He also said that he couldn't hear through one ear, so I suspect that it was blocked or sore as well. Today he did well, but again was 104.3 just now. I tested him as he fell asleep against me watching TV and well before his bedtime. I am pretty over this illness and I think that Levi definitely is. He is just getting so tired and we are only a few weeks into term.
I think if it continues over the next week or so, I will have to crack and go to the doctor, to see if I can get it sorted for him. I'm afraid that I'll just take him and it will be the whole 7 to 10 day virus thing. It has been nearly three weeks this fever. I hope that it is just a bunch of illnesses back to back. I can hear him snoring from here, two rooms away. I wish that he hadn't fallen asleep before I could give him meds.
Tomorrow we are supposed to have swimming but likely he will be too sick for that in the morning and I am certainly not waking him if he does by some miracle sleep in!
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