Summer: Sun. 7/12 (NH)
Pancakes for breakfast, a hike in the woods, a tick on Andrew's ankle. There was some swimming/floating in the pond after the hot walk, and then Andrew went up to the house and brought a picnic down so we could eat lunch by the pond. The kids continued to swim after that.
At some point in the afternoon, Lucia asked if we could eat Fudge Stripe cookies and read Harry Potter in our hammocks. OBVIOUSLY the answer to that insane request was a hard no. Ha ha just kidding. We did that immediately. Then we all read our own books in our hammocks while Andrew toiled away inside the hot, stuffy house, scraping a toxic layer of paint/drywall/skimcoat/lead/asbestos off the kitchen ceiling, because We All Have Our Own Ways of Relaxing.
Later, there was another round of pond swimming. Tonight, we had a family reunion via Zoom, with four generations signing in from all over the U.S., including Hawaii. There were 31 relatives in attendance. I know it makes me sound like I'm a hundred years old and probably like I'm not married to a person working for the biggest tech company in the world, but how crazy is technology, you know? Even three years ago this couldn't have happened.
The unthinkable has happened: Lucia has finished every book she brought. And Greta's nearly there. We may have to make a stop at the Books A Million in a nearby town to see what we can find to get us through till we get home.
What We're Reading
Margo: My Kind of People by Lisa Duffy
Andrew: White Fragility
Lucia: finished the last in the Fairy Tale Reform School Series today, and also read Fourteen Goldfish by Jennifer Holm
Greta: finished School for Good and Evil #6 right at bedtime
At some point in the afternoon, Lucia asked if we could eat Fudge Stripe cookies and read Harry Potter in our hammocks. OBVIOUSLY the answer to that insane request was a hard no. Ha ha just kidding. We did that immediately. Then we all read our own books in our hammocks while Andrew toiled away inside the hot, stuffy house, scraping a toxic layer of paint/drywall/skimcoat/lead/asbestos off the kitchen ceiling, because We All Have Our Own Ways of Relaxing.
Later, there was another round of pond swimming. Tonight, we had a family reunion via Zoom, with four generations signing in from all over the U.S., including Hawaii. There were 31 relatives in attendance. I know it makes me sound like I'm a hundred years old and probably like I'm not married to a person working for the biggest tech company in the world, but how crazy is technology, you know? Even three years ago this couldn't have happened.
The unthinkable has happened: Lucia has finished every book she brought. And Greta's nearly there. We may have to make a stop at the Books A Million in a nearby town to see what we can find to get us through till we get home.
What We're Reading
Margo: My Kind of People by Lisa Duffy
Andrew: White Fragility
Lucia: finished the last in the Fairy Tale Reform School Series today, and also read Fourteen Goldfish by Jennifer Holm
Greta: finished School for Good and Evil #6 right at bedtime
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