Tuesday, July 8

I went into the office all day then came home and went to Trader Joe's with the kids. Coming home from NH and then immediately going back to work as well as being a solo parent has left me exhausted. At least now we actually have groceries, if not the time to cook anything. We had a quick "dinner" of frozen Trader Joe's dumplings as soon as we got home from the store, and then went to Frick Park for Lucia's cross-country run. Her team summer runs have begun, and she is beyond excited. She says XC is her favorite time of the year. 

Greta didn't want to run tonight so she walked two miles with me. I am very tired and stiff, so she had to make an active effort to keep pace with me, which she kindly did. It's a lesson for me: in NH, I moved around all the time, walking down the road, walking down the hill to the pond, and I felt great. It's the best I've felt all summer. Now, after a ten-hour car ride and back to sitting for most of the day, I can feel the difference, and it's not good. I'll go to the park to walk while Lucia runs for the rest of the summer, which I think will help a lot. 

We watched one episode of This Is Us to finish off the day.

Andrew, on his own journey, left for the airport early yesterday morning, flew to Newark, and then got stuck there until 6:00 p.m. today. Weather, mechanical issues, crew timing out--everything that could go wrong did go wrong. He boarded and de-boarded four times. The delay was 13 hours until finally the flight was cancelled and the airline sent everyone to a hotel. Then another round of insanity today. He finally did make it to Peru.

What We're Reading

I have no idea! I'm at work all day, Andrew is living at the airport, and the kids are back to being teens with their bedroom doors closed. A thousand sighs. I myself am in a reading rut. We have thousands of books and I don't want to read any of them. A post-vacation slump. So I'm catching up on the pile of New Yorkers and New Yorks that awaited me when we got home on Sunday, and I requested a lot of books from the library.