Around 7:30 p.m., when I was eating dinner in my office, a partner knocked on my closed door and then, as partners are wont to do, pushed it open. "I know you're really swamped," he said, "and I don't want to stress you out. Do you have any time?" I shook my head and shrugged apologetically, with a mouth full of tortellini.
And, miracle of miracles, he LEFT.---
While I'm here, here's a weekend recap. The weekend turned out to be unexpectedly beautiful. Saturday was a laundry and grocery shopping day, with lots of playing on the porch. X's new Dora play kitchen, a freecycle find, was a hit. In the evening X noticed a FIRE TRUCK pull up outside our next door neighbor's house. We went out to see, along with several other neighbors and their dogs. It was just a malfunctioning carbon monoxide detector. Everybody was fine and the kids were all excited to see the fire truck and the dogs.
Sunday morning X and I made chocolate chip muffins. I didn't really need to use the stand mixer, but X loves it so much that I did anyway. I discovered after mixing up the dough that the giant bag of chocolate chips only had a few sad chips scattered at the bottom, so I took the kids out for a pajama walk to 7-11 and we took a long detour to the playground. After the muffins were eventually cooked and eaten, K and I delivered the leftovers around the neighborhood.
K set up a booth on the sidewalk: "Psychiatric help, 5 cents. The doctor is in." X had to have a booth too. Some of the neighbor kids came over to play in the driveway. They wanted to sit in the booths and K got mad and went inside. X rode the tricycle, and the scooter, and pushed the toy lawnmower. I chased him down the street to the neighbor's house. They were all still at our house.
K has been begging for months for a light saber to replace the one he got for his fifth birthday that mysteriously disappeared shortly afterwards, never to be seen again. I told him if he did three extra good things, he could get a new one. He enlisted X to help him pick up all the Legos without my asking, went canvassing for Ed Markey with Daddy, and cleaned up his entire room and the playroom. I told him I preferred him doing nice things for other people, but since I didn't entirely think the parameters through at the beginning, I deemed his light saber earned. Target was all out so he got a ninja mask and a promise that we'd order the light saber on Amazon.
Sunday morning X and I made chocolate chip muffins. I didn't really need to use the stand mixer, but X loves it so much that I did anyway. I discovered after mixing up the dough that the giant bag of chocolate chips only had a few sad chips scattered at the bottom, so I took the kids out for a pajama walk to 7-11 and we took a long detour to the playground. After the muffins were eventually cooked and eaten, K and I delivered the leftovers around the neighborhood.
K set up a booth on the sidewalk: "Psychiatric help, 5 cents. The doctor is in." X had to have a booth too. Some of the neighbor kids came over to play in the driveway. They wanted to sit in the booths and K got mad and went inside. X rode the tricycle, and the scooter, and pushed the toy lawnmower. I chased him down the street to the neighbor's house. They were all still at our house.
K has been begging for months for a light saber to replace the one he got for his fifth birthday that mysteriously disappeared shortly afterwards, never to be seen again. I told him if he did three extra good things, he could get a new one. He enlisted X to help him pick up all the Legos without my asking, went canvassing for Ed Markey with Daddy, and cleaned up his entire room and the playroom. I told him I preferred him doing nice things for other people, but since I didn't entirely think the parameters through at the beginning, I deemed his light saber earned. Target was all out so he got a ninja mask and a promise that we'd order the light saber on Amazon.
Saturday I spent X's entire naptime cutting fabric panels. Sunday night I ironed and hemmed. I'm finally making those curtains that I bought the fabric for months ago. I am DIY-challenged, so this is a big step for me.
And I didn't do any work all weekend. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. So here I am.
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