We had a playdate at our house with one of K's preschool friends. The parents asked how we managed to keep our living room so uncluttered and toy-free, and we told them the answer was ten minutes of running around before they arrived + a large box.
I baked corn muffins, but I made the rookie mistake of dumping cold milk into warm butter. They turned out OK despite the giant butter lumps. I greased the pan with bacon grease. Everything tastes good with bacon grease.
We had brunch at a friend's house, followed by playground time for all 4 kids. At the playground, they had a lot of fun running "obstacle courses," like "Run to the tree, run around it three times, roll down the hill, run to the swings and swing as high as you can, then hop over the see-saw and come back." Our friends' idea. I thought that was brilliant.
The boys got haircuts.
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We went to the library and got some new Elephant and Piggie books. We also read another cute Mo Willems book, "Hooray for Amanda and her Alligator!" And I read a book called "How to Raise Successful Children" or something that talked about how we're too focused on our kids' accomplishments and need to focus more on encouraging them to be self-motivated, independent, curious, kind, and respectful of themselves and others.
We went out to dinner and the boys got balloon animals, a bear for X and a snail for K. JW and I ate the most delicious thing ever -- bacon horseradish cream. (With oyster and leek fritters to dip into it, but that was beside the point.) I found this Rachael Ray recipe for cauliflower mac and cheese with bacon horseradish sauce that in theory, every member of our family might actually eat. I think we need to try it.
I crammed work into every spare minute.
JW printed out the envelopes for all the Christmas cards. (We were a few short. We need to order more next year, or cull our list. If you're expecting one and don't get one... sorry, we'll do better next year!)
I tried to clean out the basement, but I don't know what to do with all the miscellaneous items down there. We need to have a yard sale... but that won't be for six months. I need to figure out a place to put the stuff temporarily so I can make it into a room. We're generally good about not having lots of excess stuff, but these are either things we definitely want to keep but only need on rare occasions, or things that I would rather sell than give away.
X requested "E-I-E-I-O," over and over. He always wants the animal to be a duck. Also, when you ask X what a frog says, he replies, "RABBIT, RABBIT." (So I told him a rabbit says, "FROG, FROG.")
I read in Carolyn Hax's Hootenanny of Holiday Horrors a story about a woman who keeps drawing her SIL in their annual gift exchange, but they hate each other. Last year she got her SIL an XL T-shirt with a picture of a panda punching a guy in the face. That cracks me up every single time I think about it.
I had a dream that JW started dating someone who ran a hotel gift shop. Her name was Winter. I said, "But I thought we were going to be together forever," and he replied, "This is my chance to be happy. Don't you want me to be happy?"
K drew an Electric Octopus and explained, "It looks like he has a black penis, but that's really where he shoots electricity out."
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