Black Flies, Flavor Ices and My Hearing

Here are a few random thoughts which highlight the last few days at the Snow household:

1. Black Flies - these nasty little bugs are back in full force now. They swarmed us at Benny's T Ball practice and then followed us over to Jacob's baseball game. They do bite and Benny has a good sized welt on his head. One flew right into my mouth! Yuck! I am considering getting one of those protective nets that goes over your head. Yes, I'll look like a geek, but I don't care.
These products may become the next big fashion trend in our town!

2. Flavor Ices - George loves these frozen treats. I think they are nothing more than sugar laden flavorless ice cubes. The boys love them too. I tried to convince George that they are junk and that he would be better off eating an ice cream bar. But then to my surprise George compared the labels for flavor ice vs. ice cream bars and determined that the sugar content was the same! He also told me his flavor ices are fat free whereas the ice cream bars have 11 grams of fat! Who taught him how to read these labels anyway?

3. My Hearing - I think I need to get my hearing checked. I am not always hearing George correctly. (Now perhaps this is a defense mechanism and something that I have built up over the years...) I find myself having to ask George to repeat himself several times a day and on quite a few occasions I have totally misheard what he has said. For instance, this morning George was talking about something in the kitchen and I swear that he said "My aunt said hello". Not sure which Aunt or when, but I was 100% certain he said this. Yikes!