a no library day
it was supposed to be a library day! we were supposed to go to mulberry street! instead i vacuumed korrina's room in preparation for her friend's visit (while she was at the comic con and m and c did their usual work on their own: handwriting, instruments, theory and languages). korrina and greg were supposed to vacuum last night after she straightened up (a very major and scary undertaking), but that didn't happen. (sigh.) cleaning up always takes longer than i think it will. well. it looks nice now, doesn't it? the blankets weren't finished until this evening. they make everything look so much cozier. my mom made the quilt for me ages ago . . . probably when i was around 15, about the same time i received the botany book.
so . . chanda and i dropped morgana off at her dance class since i wanted to go to fairway and get a few things for lunch over the weekend . . and we hit a major traffic jam coming home. typical downtown traffic between 53rd street and 42nd street. we got through it. it wasn't so bad. but for a moment there when i was sitting, tapping my fingers on the steering wheel, i really felt like my day was . . stuck. no library. no main lesson history block. no craft hour . . all my plans awash in laundry (again? wasn't that yesterday's chore?) and vacuuming and shopping and cooking.
somehow chanda and i saved the day. we managed to find a parking spot, switch over the laundry from washer to dryer, unload the groceries, and hightail it to the park for some fresh air. the night was so beautiful, and we tried to fly a small kite we had found yesterday when cleaning out some bins (we had seen one in the sky when parking the car).
we weren't successful with the kite (the wind was too sporadic), but we enjoyed our run along the pier and the view of the river at high tide.
back in the apartment, we made red bean and quinoa chili from feeding the whole family, by cynthia lair. it's one of our favorite meals, and a nice way to end the day. (oh! i just remembered. morgana and i did find time to read more of twelfth night together before her dance class. i think we're up to act III.)
it was supposed to be a library day! we were supposed to go to mulberry street! instead i vacuumed korrina's room in preparation for her friend's visit (while she was at the comic con and m and c did their usual work on their own: handwriting, instruments, theory and languages). korrina and greg were supposed to vacuum last night after she straightened up (a very major and scary undertaking), but that didn't happen. (sigh.) cleaning up always takes longer than i think it will. well. it looks nice now, doesn't it? the blankets weren't finished until this evening. they make everything look so much cozier. my mom made the quilt for me ages ago . . . probably when i was around 15, about the same time i received the botany book.
so . . chanda and i dropped morgana off at her dance class since i wanted to go to fairway and get a few things for lunch over the weekend . . and we hit a major traffic jam coming home. typical downtown traffic between 53rd street and 42nd street. we got through it. it wasn't so bad. but for a moment there when i was sitting, tapping my fingers on the steering wheel, i really felt like my day was . . stuck. no library. no main lesson history block. no craft hour . . all my plans awash in laundry (again? wasn't that yesterday's chore?) and vacuuming and shopping and cooking.
somehow chanda and i saved the day. we managed to find a parking spot, switch over the laundry from washer to dryer, unload the groceries, and hightail it to the park for some fresh air. the night was so beautiful, and we tried to fly a small kite we had found yesterday when cleaning out some bins (we had seen one in the sky when parking the car).
we weren't successful with the kite (the wind was too sporadic), but we enjoyed our run along the pier and the view of the river at high tide.
back in the apartment, we made red bean and quinoa chili from feeding the whole family, by cynthia lair. it's one of our favorite meals, and a nice way to end the day. (oh! i just remembered. morgana and i did find time to read more of twelfth night together before her dance class. i think we're up to act III.)
"Feeding the Whole Family" is also on our bookshelf. I'm always torn between a more vegetarian diet and a more or less Paleo diet. We also have some problems with gluten and dairy which eliminates some of Cynthia Lair's recipes. I guesss I'll never find out what the best diet is.
ReplyDeleteThe room does look nice, and I'm sorry about the traffic jam. That's one problem we never have out here. There are more cows in our county than people.
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