All of us here had a 3-day weekend (MLK day). It was... mostly nice, but I have a tight angry knot inside. Because one of the kids is just infuriating. Nothing new - just same old screaming during our weekend hike (she is 11), just same old doing things without asking, just same old bickering and fighting with the siblings, just same old talking-back to the parents, just same old demanding (but kind and caring deep inside) little tyrant.
Good stuff:
- Kids made lunch on Monday. Salad, mac-and-cheese (from a box), and chicken soup (from a can). It was all good. Especially the salad!
- Baking bread
- Baking cookies with our youngest
- Hike in a chilly wintery forest, with semi-frozen streams and crunchy mud (we were able to tune out H's screaming and complaining, most of the time).
- Kids played with neighbors outside
- Trip to the library
- Brief walk with my oldest in a muddy trail (it warmed up and crunchy trails turned into, well, mud soup).
- Solo walk in the neighborhood.
- Reading (a lot!!!)
- Finished a project for work
- The whole family playing Apples-to-Apples together, in front of the fire place.
- Husband and I are watching Grantchester - I really like the stories and the characters.
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