Weekend Report

• We visited friends and had an outdoor dinner at their place. Kids had fun playing together with their friends! We had some good conversations among the grown-ups.

• We went to the Farmer’s Market and got some amazing local produce (sweet peppers are unbelievable – so full of flavour!)

• We cleaned the dining room floor and moved part of a new desk we recently acquired for free (it’s pretty old – like early 20th century, I think, and needs a bit of help).

• We watched 2 movies with kids! Rear Window (the old one, with Jimmy Stewart) and Les Choristes (with English subtitles). Kids and I really enjoyed both and my husband sort of drifted in and out but was mostly there for the Rear Window. He is not big on foreign films with subtitles.

I remember the first time I watched Les Choristes with friends from the lab – Chicago film festival, back in the early 2000’s. One of the friends was originally from France, and she ended up sending me the CD of the soundtrack. My kids love listening to that CD!

• We did a few load of laundry, baked bread, made cabbage soup and meat loaf that should last us at least part of the week.

• We took kids to the pool Friday afternoon and then had sushi takeout dinner (our kids have been begging for sushi for weeks!).

• I made “Dutch baby” for Saturday morning breakfast and sour dough pancakes on Sunday. 

• My husband and son went on a 3 mile run around the neighborhood.

• Other chores included sporadic dusting and a tiny bit of tidying up.

• The kids and I started reading “Unplugged” by Gordon Korman. So far, we love it and it is so much fun to read it aloud!

I don’t know if I love it quite as much as “Unteachables” or “Schooled”, but we’ll see! We only read the first couple of chapters.

• Our middle daughter cut my husband’s hair (while I was away buying food). He says he is happy with the outcome.

• Then, she attempted to cut her big brother’s hair. I am not sure exactly what happened there (I believe they fought for control of the buzzer?) but he now has some spectacular bold spots on the back of his head. Just in time for the beginning of the school year next week!

• There was a lot of screaming (my screaming, mostly) when I returned from the store.

• Yes, hair grows back… but I really want my kids to look NICE when they go back to in-person school, first time since March 2019!!!!!

• We may have to make a trip to a fancy hair salon in the near future…