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altarflame) wrote2009-04-13 09:11 pm
altarflame) wrote2009-04-13 09:11 pm
Today, so far...
I've:
-slept in
-saw that my devotional journal is on target as per usual, wondered why I don't go to it more regularly as per usual
-said goodbye to my mother, with more bafflement at her thinness and some worry that she could potentially wreck on the highway...but also relief that she looks better than she did
-recommitted to Weight Watchers, with a weigh in and entering my strawberry chocolate chip muffin recipe so I could calculate my breakfast points...
-cut up about 10 crates of strawberries; and then coated them in raw turbinado sugar, stirred and left them to soak again about 3 times now (I'm making pie filling...)
-made a huge wok of green beans and whole garlic cloves in olive oil and sea salt, for lunch
-researched gluten-free baking
-talked with all the kids about my cuban grandfather, Pa, and how we're going to go visit Grandpa Arthur (my Dad) sometime soon and see Pa, too...and talked in general about how great he was with Laura and I as kids and how lonely it can be when you're old and people don't visit and how fun he still is. We sat down and I had all five of them make him cards I'm going to send. HONEST cards that say things like, "My mom says you're a great cook. I cook too!" and "This is a picture of me, my name is Isaac". I think Ananda, Aaron and Isaac are the only three who have ever MET Pa, and none of them remember :/ It's hard because he lives by himself in a *tiny* efficiency-style apartment in Key West's Senior Citizen building and chain smokes around the clock in it, so it's just a really smoky toxic mess where I cough and my sister has an asthma attack just walking in the door. He's willing to come outside to talk to us, but how long does a visit on the landing really last? I was thinking we can take sidewalk chalk for the landing or a picnic if we have to. Make it work.
-accidentally took a nap with Elise, when I went to nurse her down to sleep (she still naps in our bed)
-took all the chickens out to the backyard and sat on the deck with the kids watching them, and smart balance and honey'ing more of our Knaus bread
-went on a bike ride with Aaron
-talked theology of Mary with Orthodox people online
-was SHOCKED as I washed my hands at one point to see that all of my finger nails are bitten down to the smallest nubs of nothing with bloody mangled cuticles around them...apparently I got through yesterday with my mother by chewing my hands off? It worked, I suppose.
-made pizza for the kids for dinner...we had some of everything needed leftover so it was easy to throw together on the fly
So now they'll be getting to bed while G and I try to decide what's for OUR (late) dinner and if we have a movie we'd like to watch. He owes me a 10 minute massage for a poopy diaper I took care of earlier when it was his turn ;)
-slept in
-saw that my devotional journal is on target as per usual, wondered why I don't go to it more regularly as per usual
-said goodbye to my mother, with more bafflement at her thinness and some worry that she could potentially wreck on the highway...but also relief that she looks better than she did
-recommitted to Weight Watchers, with a weigh in and entering my strawberry chocolate chip muffin recipe so I could calculate my breakfast points...
-cut up about 10 crates of strawberries; and then coated them in raw turbinado sugar, stirred and left them to soak again about 3 times now (I'm making pie filling...)
-made a huge wok of green beans and whole garlic cloves in olive oil and sea salt, for lunch
-researched gluten-free baking
-talked with all the kids about my cuban grandfather, Pa, and how we're going to go visit Grandpa Arthur (my Dad) sometime soon and see Pa, too...and talked in general about how great he was with Laura and I as kids and how lonely it can be when you're old and people don't visit and how fun he still is. We sat down and I had all five of them make him cards I'm going to send. HONEST cards that say things like, "My mom says you're a great cook. I cook too!" and "This is a picture of me, my name is Isaac". I think Ananda, Aaron and Isaac are the only three who have ever MET Pa, and none of them remember :/ It's hard because he lives by himself in a *tiny* efficiency-style apartment in Key West's Senior Citizen building and chain smokes around the clock in it, so it's just a really smoky toxic mess where I cough and my sister has an asthma attack just walking in the door. He's willing to come outside to talk to us, but how long does a visit on the landing really last? I was thinking we can take sidewalk chalk for the landing or a picnic if we have to. Make it work.
-accidentally took a nap with Elise, when I went to nurse her down to sleep (she still naps in our bed)
-took all the chickens out to the backyard and sat on the deck with the kids watching them, and smart balance and honey'ing more of our Knaus bread
-went on a bike ride with Aaron
-talked theology of Mary with Orthodox people online
-was SHOCKED as I washed my hands at one point to see that all of my finger nails are bitten down to the smallest nubs of nothing with bloody mangled cuticles around them...apparently I got through yesterday with my mother by chewing my hands off? It worked, I suppose.
-made pizza for the kids for dinner...we had some of everything needed leftover so it was easy to throw together on the fly
So now they'll be getting to bed while G and I try to decide what's for OUR (late) dinner and if we have a movie we'd like to watch. He owes me a 10 minute massage for a poopy diaper I took care of earlier when it was his turn ;)