Summer: Sun., 8/11
Much better day today. We didn't have any plans at all, so both girls slept in and then played with a variety of things for most of the morning. Good Luck Minis, American Girls, Mailegs, Chistmas Tsum Tsums from an Advent calendar two years ago, all in a big mix in the upstairs hallway. The game was punctuated by long, loud spells of them singing songs from The Greatest Showman (Lucia told me later the AG doll Tenney was performing). They did some large floor puzzles in the basement. They were their old selves. WTF happened the two days prior?
They went with Andrew to Whole Foods in the afternoon. They played outside, drawing stuff on the driveway and riding their bikes and scooters. I took them to Dollar Tree to get new supplies for the tinkerspace. Andrew made gazpacho, grilled chicken legs, and chili-lime Mexican street corn for dinner. All delicious.
Other activities: Lucia worked on a friendship bracelet, Greta read a Fox Trot comic strip collection. In other words, they were fully channeling my childhood. We FaceTimed with Mom and Dad. Lucia and Andrew played bocce. It was one of those days when they couldn't even fit in everything they wanted to do, when they were trying to play up to the very moment we made them go to bed.
Tomorrow it's back to Fiber Arts Camp, and at the end of the week we'll go to NH. So the summer keeps tripping along. Hopefully whatever dark demons the kids were wrestling with have exited their systems for the duration of the summer. Oh: we also cancelled our planned trip to Ocean City for Labor Day. We've decided to pick up our puppy instead, since the litter will be ready to go to their new homes on 8/31. We don't want to wait an extra week, to make our puppy feel left behind and unwanted while its litter mates go to their new homes. (This is 100% my own projection, obvs.) I really feel eager to have our new puppy NOW. Our family suddenly feels incomplete without a dog. I guess this is how I would've felt if I'd wanted a third child (cue hysterical laughter).
Unrelated: We have a mouse. I saw it run under the kitchen table twice last night while I was reading in the living room. There's always something.
They went with Andrew to Whole Foods in the afternoon. They played outside, drawing stuff on the driveway and riding their bikes and scooters. I took them to Dollar Tree to get new supplies for the tinkerspace. Andrew made gazpacho, grilled chicken legs, and chili-lime Mexican street corn for dinner. All delicious.
Other activities: Lucia worked on a friendship bracelet, Greta read a Fox Trot comic strip collection. In other words, they were fully channeling my childhood. We FaceTimed with Mom and Dad. Lucia and Andrew played bocce. It was one of those days when they couldn't even fit in everything they wanted to do, when they were trying to play up to the very moment we made them go to bed.
Tomorrow it's back to Fiber Arts Camp, and at the end of the week we'll go to NH. So the summer keeps tripping along. Hopefully whatever dark demons the kids were wrestling with have exited their systems for the duration of the summer. Oh: we also cancelled our planned trip to Ocean City for Labor Day. We've decided to pick up our puppy instead, since the litter will be ready to go to their new homes on 8/31. We don't want to wait an extra week, to make our puppy feel left behind and unwanted while its litter mates go to their new homes. (This is 100% my own projection, obvs.) I really feel eager to have our new puppy NOW. Our family suddenly feels incomplete without a dog. I guess this is how I would've felt if I'd wanted a third child (cue hysterical laughter).
Unrelated: We have a mouse. I saw it run under the kitchen table twice last night while I was reading in the living room. There's always something.
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