This Weekend
May. 23rd, 2016 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckro- On Friday, Emily came and watched ARR and Jethrien and I went to the HPMS “Spring Fling” fundraiser (which was shades of the old boy scout Spaghetti Dinner/Chinese Auction). We had a lovely talk with the school’s computer teacher (who obviously had to put in an appearance but this “wasn’t her thing”) and several other sets of parents. We won the auction for a basket of art supplies which Alex spent the rest of the weekend enjoying, and also for a gift certificate to 9th & Coles Tavern, which we haven’t actually been to yet. (We also ended up in an amusing back-and-forth with the parents of ARR’s friend JS. They ended up with the “beach fun” basket.)
- On Saturday, Jethrien’s parents came up with a dozen flats of plants and much gardening occurred. (ARR was actually helpful this year!) Then Jethrien went to Circe du Soleil with Ivy and Mithras (which was apparently very disappointing because they spent too much time on a crappy faux-musical and not nearly enough on aerialist stunts) and I grilled pork chops.
- Jethrien’s parents left on Sunday morning, I took ARR to his My Gym class, and he did a gazillion art projects as we attempted to consolidate the existing art supplies, the new ones from the auction, and the box o’ fun that arrived in the mail from my sister. Then I went to see Captain America and get burgers with a group of our friends, and Jethrien took the evening with ARR. (Apparently playtime was great but bedtime was stressful because he keeps coming up with new and interesting ways to stall.)
- The movie trip also involved an attempt to go to Black Tap, but they have a line like a nightclub, so we ended up at Bareburger instead, and I was very happy with that choice. I had the Blue Elk burger, which was a lovely combination of things I don’t usually have at home (elk meat, bleu cheese, bacon and a sweet/spicy tomato relish).
- A conversation from My Gym. Girl: “I’ll be the princess!” ARR: “I’ll be the king!” Boy: “I’ll be Darth Vader!”
- My weight topped 195 following the cruise, so I broke down and installed a calorie counter app on my phone and I’ve been tracking for the past week. It occurred to me that among the things that triggered my initial weight gain back in the fall were both the daily Zyrtec and the fact that I switched from pushing ARR’s stroller on my commute to biking every day. The latter burns far fewer calories.
- On Saturday, Jethrien’s parents came up with a dozen flats of plants and much gardening occurred. (ARR was actually helpful this year!) Then Jethrien went to Circe du Soleil with Ivy and Mithras (which was apparently very disappointing because they spent too much time on a crappy faux-musical and not nearly enough on aerialist stunts) and I grilled pork chops.
- Jethrien’s parents left on Sunday morning, I took ARR to his My Gym class, and he did a gazillion art projects as we attempted to consolidate the existing art supplies, the new ones from the auction, and the box o’ fun that arrived in the mail from my sister. Then I went to see Captain America and get burgers with a group of our friends, and Jethrien took the evening with ARR. (Apparently playtime was great but bedtime was stressful because he keeps coming up with new and interesting ways to stall.)
- The movie trip also involved an attempt to go to Black Tap, but they have a line like a nightclub, so we ended up at Bareburger instead, and I was very happy with that choice. I had the Blue Elk burger, which was a lovely combination of things I don’t usually have at home (elk meat, bleu cheese, bacon and a sweet/spicy tomato relish).
- A conversation from My Gym. Girl: “I’ll be the princess!” ARR: “I’ll be the king!” Boy: “I’ll be Darth Vader!”
- My weight topped 195 following the cruise, so I broke down and installed a calorie counter app on my phone and I’ve been tracking for the past week. It occurred to me that among the things that triggered my initial weight gain back in the fall were both the daily Zyrtec and the fact that I switched from pushing ARR’s stroller on my commute to biking every day. The latter burns far fewer calories.
