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Happy (Slightly Belated) Spring Equinox!
Mar. 21st, 2019 09:50 amYesterday’s activities included: walking with M., walking A. home from school. I went to the grocery store to get things like American cheese and bread for A.’s lunches. I failed to get the Honest Tea Kids that T. requested, because there were several flavors and I did not know which one he wanted. Turns out he wants the fruit punch that he gets at Subway. He has also requested a trip to Acton Memorial this afternoon, so we’ll be doing that today.
I also had two guests! G. and S., who I knew through the kids’ preschool years, and have been FB friends with since the preschool years, came over to have snacks and chat. It was lovely! I’ve been meaning to do this for, oh, what, 5 years now? I am so slow! But they are so fun. Hopefully we can do this more frequently!
We received sad news about the kids horseback riding and a little of the reason why. It’s unclear whether they will continue horseback riding regularly or not — we’ll wait and see as the spring weather continues to improve what happens next.
A. continues to play Prodigy (math game) and be really difficult to blast out of that activity to do important things like eat dinner and go to bed. Which is fine. I get it. Apple. Tree. Right there.
Today’s activities include running Eufy in the upstairs hall for the second time in under a week. T. keeps tracking in dust from the construction site down the street. I may have to actually start enforcing shoes off for him. R. doesn’t really track in dust, and A. and I are both already taking our shoes off, so he’s the last one causing problems. This is the worst time of year for sand and mud, and then construction just makes it so much worse.
ETA: Last night T. started talking about how Easter was all about Jesus. I was like, okay, if you are going to be that way, then we are going to have Church. I got out Wendy Pfeffer’s _A New Beginning_ and we read that, then we read the Ostara chapter from _Rupert’s Tales: The Wheel of the Year_. T. took off pretty fast, but A. seemed to enjoy it. I really like the Ostara story, because Rupert and Roxanne are very cute and exactly what one wants in a fertility holiday for children. I don’t mind if T. adopts different holiday traditions. I do, however, object to people stomping all over my holiday, when their holiday isn’t even for another month. Of course I put the egg baskets out on the table right after St. Patrick’s Day, because eggs. That has nothing to do with Jesus. A. and I had an entertaining little chat about the whole idea of resurrection, which she refers to as reanimation, and which I find hilarious.
I also had two guests! G. and S., who I knew through the kids’ preschool years, and have been FB friends with since the preschool years, came over to have snacks and chat. It was lovely! I’ve been meaning to do this for, oh, what, 5 years now? I am so slow! But they are so fun. Hopefully we can do this more frequently!
We received sad news about the kids horseback riding and a little of the reason why. It’s unclear whether they will continue horseback riding regularly or not — we’ll wait and see as the spring weather continues to improve what happens next.
A. continues to play Prodigy (math game) and be really difficult to blast out of that activity to do important things like eat dinner and go to bed. Which is fine. I get it. Apple. Tree. Right there.
Today’s activities include running Eufy in the upstairs hall for the second time in under a week. T. keeps tracking in dust from the construction site down the street. I may have to actually start enforcing shoes off for him. R. doesn’t really track in dust, and A. and I are both already taking our shoes off, so he’s the last one causing problems. This is the worst time of year for sand and mud, and then construction just makes it so much worse.
ETA: Last night T. started talking about how Easter was all about Jesus. I was like, okay, if you are going to be that way, then we are going to have Church. I got out Wendy Pfeffer’s _A New Beginning_ and we read that, then we read the Ostara chapter from _Rupert’s Tales: The Wheel of the Year_. T. took off pretty fast, but A. seemed to enjoy it. I really like the Ostara story, because Rupert and Roxanne are very cute and exactly what one wants in a fertility holiday for children. I don’t mind if T. adopts different holiday traditions. I do, however, object to people stomping all over my holiday, when their holiday isn’t even for another month. Of course I put the egg baskets out on the table right after St. Patrick’s Day, because eggs. That has nothing to do with Jesus. A. and I had an entertaining little chat about the whole idea of resurrection, which she refers to as reanimation, and which I find hilarious.