What a lovely way to spend the evening. One of the nicest things, I found, about raising a daughter (instead of, say, pets or houseplants) was that at some point she could and would feed herself. About a year thereafter, she was willing and able to feed me on occasion.
I told the girls to make their own dinner. I ate a few Tortilla chips but managed to stop myself before the damage was too great. Then I made homemade butterscotch pudding for my dinner and retired to the bathtub. Got to bed at 9:30 p.m.
I was SO TIRED last night after not sleeping well, and I took a bath, and it was really nice....and then I went to Starbucks with Lindsay and stayed up reading the last Darcy book. Staying up late when I know I should go to bed always feels like rebellion to me, but it's always the rebellion that just kills me the next day.
Which Darcy book? These Three Remain? I just literally THIRTY SECONDS AGO added it to my Amazon wish list, before I saw your comment. What do you think of it?
Umm, well, I read over 200 pages yesterday. have you read the others in the trilogy? Having spent a lot of time reading AWFUL Jane Austen knockoffs this year, Pamela Aiden's trilogy is my number one recommended book of the year. I have had every P&P fan I know read it. My friend in France read it on the train to Lourdes, and then re-read it on the train back. Everyone who I have given it to or persuaded to buy it really liked it. The first one is called "An Assembly Such As This" the second is called "Duty and Desire" and then the third is (obviously) "These Three Remain".
Yes, I like it extremely well too: I read most of the trilogy on the net before it was published, up to the point she wasn't updating it anymore and I was rather ticked when she didn't finish it--until I realized that was because she was getting it published. I just need to get around to purchasing my copy (it was one of the few fanfic novels I had actually printed out). I am curious to see how she handles the ending.
I drink Merry's; it's much cheaper than Bailey's, and to me it tastes as good. Remember, we can drink either one only because we're the grown-up. It has its rewards.
I congratulate you! Sounds like an excellent way to spend the evening. Your needs deserve to be catered to, too. Just curious - when left to fend for themselves, what do your girls cook?
Fiona put butter and parmesan on hers, Delia used Alfredo sauce. I told them they had to have either a fruit or vegetable. I believe they resorted to carrot sticks.
Hey, a vegetable is a vegetable. :) And that was something I took with me, btw, as a continuation of your "independence" post. When I went to college, I took with me my mother's repeated admonitions that lunch/dinner needed a protein, a fruit and/or a vegetable, and that breakfast shouldn't generally be too sugary (she taught me to read labels and be aware of what was okay and what wasn't). Didn't matter WHAT provided those nutrients, as long as they were in there. If it meant supplementing pasta with peanut butter and crackers, and carrot sticks, so be it.
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And did the world end?
Well done, you.
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And yeah. [Grownup] rank hath its privileges.
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Fiona put butter and parmesan on hers, Delia used Alfredo sauce. I told them they had to have either a fruit or vegetable. I believe they resorted to carrot sticks.
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Btw, that Bento box the other day looked yummy.
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