Tim had the car today. Not that I have been out much on my own with the girls but today was definitely a home day. We had a quiet, uneventful day and now I feel like doing something besides watching tv before bed.
After waking surprisingly refreshed at 8:30, I spent most of the late morning trying to get Eliza down for a nap. At lunchtime she had only dozed on and off, waking when I left her side, and was unhappy while I made sandwiches which needs two hands. I asked Sara Ellen to bounce her seat and the sweet girl was so unhappy herself listening to her sister cry. Eliza finally slept for longer stretches of time so that I was able to go through photos from the last six months for Sara Ellen’s album. I have Christmas, nothing for January then they trickle in until April. This was at least an hour of going through photos and listening to Sara Ellen ask me to “go back to the photo I wanted to see!”
Tim has tons of photos he hasn’t done anything with, at least not online. So I had great photos to check out, some for the first time but there were lots of gaps because he was missing most of mine from my camera and even more since I tend to photograph more with my phone so I added those from my camera and then went to our gallery to get those I’d uploaded from my phone. I went through all these, starring some, trying to compile a balanced amount for each month.
Eliza woke during this project and when I felt I’d done enough we played Carcassone (with river and Inns and Cathedrals expansions) which Sara Ellen had taken out and been pretty happily playing with on her own. It’s a tile game I suppose, not board or card, which means that you can kind of place them willy nilly as long as the sides match up. This usually leads to gaps but since I have to direct a bit anyway, and we have new expansion cards, we had only one gap at the end. And I think we almost tied. I had 151 points and Sara Ellen less than 150 but then I discovered she had two unfinished cloisters but only after removing our scoring pieces.
Then I walked into the kitchen and was amazed to find it was 6:00. The late sunsets mess with my time perception, and Sara Ellen’s too as you can imagine. It’s hard to get ready for bed at 8:30 when it isn’t really dark yet. Dinner was totally unsatisfying: frozen, thawed, baked (and eaten yesterday), and reheated macaroni and cheese casserole. Plus a piece of left over pizza from Amici’s. I got a pretty fancy pizza and it was good at first but each bite was less yummy and reheated… it somehow tasted minty, not good for three kinds of cheese, Italian bacon, spinach, and red onions.
While writing all this reminds me I did do something, the writing itself feels more productive. Both girls are out for the night (though Eliza gets awfully noisy at some point) and I need to do something, besides continue watching season 7 of Gilmore Girls. Honestly, the outlook isn’t too promising.
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Attention All Nursing Mothers [To-Be]:
I have several shirts and maybe even a dress to sell. *Please* consider my offer. Most shirts (from Motherwear) cost about $30 and I’ll sell them for maybe $15.
I have, in small & medium:
1 short sleeve shirt – white embroidered w/ empire opening
4 …
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