Summer Week 4, Day 3

Brian woke up with a migraine today and still went to work, poor Brian. He said it was a little better at lunch which for him means it's still the same but he wants to be positive. Or, sometimes that he doesn't want me to worry. 

We had such a good day today. I started with breakfast of oatmeal with cranberries and coconut sugar which two of my children liked and one didn't. The one that didn't made himself eggs. I did the dishes, showered, dressed, and read books again. Reuben picked The Cookie Tree and Miss Twiggley's Tree and Becky picked The Curious Fish and The Land of Long Ago. After we read books my mom came over which was awesome and she played with the kids while I knitted for half an hour and watched YouTube videos. I felt so rested. Afterwards I hung out downstairs while the kids played some board games with her and I heated up fried rice leftovers for lunch.

I then put the baby to nap and set up the slip'n'slide for the older two while my mom went home. It was pleasant to have the house to myself for another half an hour though I didn't do much. It was a lazy sort of day. I did a bit of cleaning and read another chapter of The Mysteries of Udolpho. It's such a huge book I think it might take a month to finish! And in true gothic fashion it's already seeped in mysteries. What woman was St. Aubert looking at in his bedchamber and weeping over? What are the papers hidden under the floor that he tells Emily to burn? I'm dying to figure it all out. But its so long...I am tired of the paragraphs and paragraphs about the foggy woods and hawthorn trees! Ann didn't write for the modern audience with our 20-second video-short attention spans... But I'm going to keep going. I feel it in me that this book is going to be good if I give it a chance. It was one of the most popular novels of the time and I'm sure for good reason! But girl, why so many pages? Oh yeah, I think they were paid by the word back then. If you read Dickens you can totally see that he, at least, was paid by the word. And he knew how to milk it.

Around 2 the baby woke up and we nursed again and then I premade some meatballs for dinner. Even though it was 85f or something close to that we all went to the park and played for half an hour and then spent another half hour in the library before picking up our raw milk and heading home. I forgot to bring money to buy floss. I shall try again tomorrow. Yes, I buy floss and pick up my raw milk at the same place. It's not weird, it's convenient. 

I got the best picture ever of the kids at the park. It's perfect. 

I was exhausted when we got home. The kids watched Frozen 2 and I read another chapter from my book (and cooked the meatballs). Alas, they were too spicy! I felt awful! Good thing I had some leftover pizza in the fridge that the kids could eat! Brian loves spicy meatballs, he'll love them. Everything was great until I checked the weather. Why is there another week of rain? We had that last week! 

seriously?

Brian got home at 7 and tore out our dishwasher because we get a new one tomorrow and I'm so excited. We bought the quietest dishwasher. It's going to be amazing. And his headache was almost all better, he said. God is good!