The first day of summer break started bright and early with Esther's two year wellness check. I really don't like going to the doctor when my child is well and visit the building where all the sick people go but here we are. She's around 28 pounds (she was deathly afraid of the scale and would leap off every time I tried to put her on!) and...she's perfect. Everything is going well. Except she doesn't sleep through the night and she's still addicted to her milkies made by mommy and I'm tired. Our peditration is great tho and besides one tired mama who needed coffee and to not leave her house at 8am (why did I schedule it so early??) everything went fine.
We all made it home in one piece.
Reuben has been playing through the Portal games and at nap time he asked me if he could play a co-op portal game while I put Esther down. He had never tried the two player option before and I didn't think that it would be an issue. Uh, okay? I don't know anything about Portal. Anyway I come down from getting Esther asleep and hear him talking to someone in his room. He knows he isn't supposed to play games where he is chatting with strangers on the internet, but he said he didn't know that would happen. He finishes the game with an ultra level of parental hovering-over-the-shoulder watchfulness and then I gave him a lecture about internet safety. Nine is too old to be live chatting with strangers on the internet. I should know, I grew up in AOL chatrooms. I then told him he could not play portal co-op. He was not excited about this new rule.
Well, we did some free reading after Esther woke and had a tea party with chocolate chip cookies and I put away three loads of laundry and there is two more loads to sort after I finish this post plus one more drying...the laundry seems never ending around here for some reason...and then Becky and I sewed a tote bag and she is embroidering it for a friend (her idea). Reuben and I will sew tomorrow--one kid is needed to keep the baby from grabbing everything and I don't know why I tried to teach a sewing lesson with a two year old but here we are. No one got hurt except Esther had two meltdowns that she couldn't touch everything while Becky was sewing and I don't think she understands why I can't always be a lap when she wants one. She's so cute. She needed a longer nap, today's was 45 minutes instead of her usual 1.5 hours.
Daddy actually made it home at 6. He seemed stressed and sometimes when he comes home stressed it disrupts the flow of our day. He crabbed at the kids for going outside (he was worried they would get dirty, a irrational fear of his that he is working on) and then he snapped at Becky to help Esther off a chair and then the soup I made turned out to be too spicy the kids cried and all I really had to eat besides the fiery hot lava soup was sourdough...so they had that with butter for dinner. The soup was really spicy. I don't know what I did wrong. I did put jalapeño in it but it never makes it that spicy. Must be extra fresh jalapeño. Sigh. Becky had a meltdown after dinner which is what she does when daddy is stressed but I got them all rounded up on the couch and left them watching funny cat videos so I could head up to write this post and knit for a little de-stress time.
Well, I need to go down and face my loads of laundry and make some plans for tomorrow. I had wanted to start decluttering and deep cleaning the house as soon as school ended but I just didn't have the energy today. Maybe tomorrow?
And that was our first day of summer break. School is already an afterthought I don't want to look at another math book until July.
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