Every morning for the past week I have found myself dropping Meredith off at school at 8:30, returning home with Harper, cleaning up the kitchen a bit, putting a sweet potato in the oven at 9:30, figuring out laundry, etc., and then eating the sweet potato at 11:00 (with one tablespoon of butter and light on the salt, if you’re wondering). And, yes. My mornings are bland at best. Aren’t you excited about NaBloPoMo? I need to come up with thirty new and exciting ways to report that I have a sweet potato in my oven!
What else is happening, you ask? Harper and I just assembled twelve bags of potato chips and bubbles for her pre-K’s fall party. Meredith’s class has won a pajama/stuffed animal/cupcake party for this afternoon, and her fall party is tomorrow. (It is NOT a Halloween party, people. It is a celebration of the harvest tide! Nothing spooky about that!)
Harper turned 4.5 yesterday, and Meredith turned 6.5 today. I will be 39.5 in a few weeks.
Meredith has a computer class at school, and yesterday she created this:
I love it for so many reasons, but I especially love that she put an owl in the tree and it’s saying “hoo hoo”.
This is completely unrelated to anything that has to do with Hoo Hoo: Tonight I am going all by myself to see the Michael Jackson movie. I never really considered myself to be a huge Michael Jackson fan, but for some reason I’m drawn to the idea of this film. And it better be good, Michael Jackson, because I don’t get out much.
Oh! One more thing! Yesterday afternoon Meredith told me that she had lunch with a new friend at school. When I asked what the new friend had brought in her lunch, Meredith answered, “She eats The Lonely Sandwiches.”
Me: What is a lonely sandwich?
Meredith: The Lonely Sandwiches! You know, with the round pink stuff inside. And cheese and mustard.
Me: Baloney sandwiches?
Meredith: No. The Lonely Sandwiches.
I kind of like the idea of sharing lunch with the lonely sandwiches. ‘ ‘ ‘text/javascript’>