weekend of wackiness
ZOMG we had such a busy weekend! I'm including Monday in the weekend because I took it off work due to Isaac's preschool being closed. They're closed all week, but one of his friends' mom agreed to take him for the day today, and my mom will have him tomorrow as usual. So I'm just taking vacation days yesterday and Thursday.
Anyway, here's the bullet-point version of our weekend:
* Saturday morning we went to the movie theater to see "Horton Hears a Who" (read: to kill a couple of hours). It was only Isaac's second movie-theater experience and Ruthie's first, and they both did great.
* Then my mom offered to take the kids at her house for a sleepover. (have I mentioned lately how great my mom is??) So I brought them over to her house and had a little dinner and went home.
* Except that first I went briefly to a concert that a cousin of ours was giving. He plays Klezmer flute, and has a trio with two other people who play Japanese and Irish flutes, so it was pretty interesting. If I hadn't been a walking zombie from sleep deprivation, I probably would have really enjoyed it. And stayed for the whole thing. But I was, so I enjoyed it as much as I could through the haze, and left at intermission.
* Then I had a lovely goofing-off evening and went to bed at 10:30 and slept till 8am (though not without a couple of wakings, alas, but still). And then mom kept the kids until noon!
* And then on Sunday we did random other stuff and it was basically all good.
* Also I baked bread using all whole-wheat flour, instead of half whole-wheat and half white flour. I used this stuff called vital wheat gluten which prevents the whole-wheat bread from being hard and dense like a rock. It came out great. I am very pleased.
* On Monday, Isaac and I went to Fenway Park to buy tickets for a game. Since my mom signed him up for Red Sox Kid Nation, he can get two tickets for a discount, but you have to go there in person to do it. So we go, which takes us like two hours to get there on several buses and subways...and then the ticket office is closed. Just for that one day, because it was the one day that I was able to actually go. ARGH. I was so pissed.
* And then I got talked into buying Isaac a $25 Manny Ramirez shirt at the official Red Sox Gear store. Even though he already has like four Sox shirts. Although admittedly his favorite one is getting too small. But still.
* Though he made up for it later when he put the shirt on and we went out and he said, "Now everyone will see the shirt and think that I'm Manny!" BWAHAHAHA. Just for reference, Manny Ramirez is a large 36-year-old Hispanic man with long black dreadlocks. And Isaac is...uh...not.
* Oh yeah, and did I mention that on Saturday morning I saw A MOUSE in my kitchen? Augh!! Just what I did NOT want to see. I was not pleased. It ran behind the stove, where I know there's a hole leading down to the basement, so after talking it over with a couple of people, I have decided to pretend it never happened and hope that the little guy just wandered in from outside, saw that we have a cat, and wandered back outside again. Ugh!!
Um...so that was the short version. Really! ;) I have more, you can believe it. ;) But that's enough for now.
Anyway, here's the bullet-point version of our weekend:
* Saturday morning we went to the movie theater to see "Horton Hears a Who" (read: to kill a couple of hours). It was only Isaac's second movie-theater experience and Ruthie's first, and they both did great.
* Then my mom offered to take the kids at her house for a sleepover. (have I mentioned lately how great my mom is??) So I brought them over to her house and had a little dinner and went home.
* Except that first I went briefly to a concert that a cousin of ours was giving. He plays Klezmer flute, and has a trio with two other people who play Japanese and Irish flutes, so it was pretty interesting. If I hadn't been a walking zombie from sleep deprivation, I probably would have really enjoyed it. And stayed for the whole thing. But I was, so I enjoyed it as much as I could through the haze, and left at intermission.
* Then I had a lovely goofing-off evening and went to bed at 10:30 and slept till 8am (though not without a couple of wakings, alas, but still). And then mom kept the kids until noon!
* And then on Sunday we did random other stuff and it was basically all good.
* Also I baked bread using all whole-wheat flour, instead of half whole-wheat and half white flour. I used this stuff called vital wheat gluten which prevents the whole-wheat bread from being hard and dense like a rock. It came out great. I am very pleased.
* On Monday, Isaac and I went to Fenway Park to buy tickets for a game. Since my mom signed him up for Red Sox Kid Nation, he can get two tickets for a discount, but you have to go there in person to do it. So we go, which takes us like two hours to get there on several buses and subways...and then the ticket office is closed. Just for that one day, because it was the one day that I was able to actually go. ARGH. I was so pissed.
* And then I got talked into buying Isaac a $25 Manny Ramirez shirt at the official Red Sox Gear store. Even though he already has like four Sox shirts. Although admittedly his favorite one is getting too small. But still.
* Though he made up for it later when he put the shirt on and we went out and he said, "Now everyone will see the shirt and think that I'm Manny!" BWAHAHAHA. Just for reference, Manny Ramirez is a large 36-year-old Hispanic man with long black dreadlocks. And Isaac is...uh...not.
* Oh yeah, and did I mention that on Saturday morning I saw A MOUSE in my kitchen? Augh!! Just what I did NOT want to see. I was not pleased. It ran behind the stove, where I know there's a hole leading down to the basement, so after talking it over with a couple of people, I have decided to pretend it never happened and hope that the little guy just wandered in from outside, saw that we have a cat, and wandered back outside again. Ugh!!
Um...so that was the short version. Really! ;) I have more, you can believe it. ;) But that's enough for now.