A few things on a Monday

I think I’ve lost the kids’ birth certificates. I kept them in my purse while we were in Colorado and I have completely misplaced the paperwork that they were with. They are NOT in my purse. I cannot find them in my house. I know they weren’t in the rental car. I was so sick then but I know I had them at the airport because I wasn’t sure if they would need them, but I can’t really remember after that. I’m thinking that I may have thrown them in the recycling and I don’t know what to do. I guess just order new copies but it’s so obnoxious! I might go through my house during my me-time today and gather up all the spare papers to look through and confirm. I don’t really need Spencer’s anytime soon, but I will need Henry’s to enroll him in VPK after the new year. Ack.

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I made this yesterday, and paired it with shrimp and bacon and it was fantastic. I was skeptical. Farro, tomatoes, onion, garlic. What’s special about that? But really, it was just delicious and even Henry liked it which is my general bar these days on if something’s really great – the pickiest eater likes it? We’ll have it for every meal! He’s always surprised when he likes things. He tells me he won’t eat it and I say “one bite. Do you want me to make your one bite?” and he will pout but say yes, and I make him a spoonful that doesn’t have the objectionable parts (in this case he didn’t like the texture of the cooked onions) and leave it on his plate for him.

Thirty seconds later there’s a whisper from across the table: “Mommy, can you make me another bite?” and I do. More whisper, like he’s trying to hide it. “Mommy, I really love it!” and then I asked if he wanted me to pull all the onions out of his so he could eat at his leisure, and I did and he ate his whole plate of farro. Shrimp and bacon first – those are his first loves.

Spencer did not eat it, but I think he’s declining on principle these days.

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I’m signed up for a 5k on October 3. I have been getting into shape – I have! But I have not been running, and I feel like this is going to be a major problem. I tried to run once last week, and it was hell. I did just over 2 miles and most of it was walking. Bad idea. I’m going to go tonight hopefully with my neighbor and it will again be mostly walking, but Wednesday I’ll try to actually run the loop (just under 2 miles) and see how it goes. It will probably not go well.

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I just now friend requested my son’s kindergarten teacher on Facebook. She’s not his teacher anymore – I would have thought that was too weird, but she’s also not at his school anymore. I hear she’s teaching middle school now, and that makes me so sad, that he can’t stop in and see her anymore (he actually DID stop in to see her and that’s how he found out that she was gone). She lives in my neighborhood; wouldn’t it be great fun if we started becoming super friends? Yeah, I’m getting the creeper vibe from myself as well.

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Yesterday I stopped in at Starbucks and then took my coffee (iced couble dirty non-fat chai) to the grocery store at 9am and did my grocery shopping. We were without any breakfast stuff at all, so it made sense to get it all done but I did so without any list or idea of what I wanted to make and oh my, I spent so much. To be fair, I also got so much, but holy goodness I basically doubled my usual grocery shopping bill and I didn’t even get any alcohol (only because it was before 11am on a Sunday). So now my job is to meal plan with all the stuff in my house for as long as I can – I have about 2 meals left of shrimp, salad stuff, 4 lbs of hamburger, chicken burgers, turkey feta burgers, three meals of chicken and a ton of wraps and tortillas. On my meal plan for this week: Salad, turkey burgers, hot dogs, cheese ravioli and chicken pot pie. I got a large chicken to make in my slow cooker which I’ve never done before, and I’ll use the meat for pot pit and other random chicken needs.

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I have been completely out of wine since before we left for Colorado. That means there has been no wine in my house for a month. A MONTH. We’ve been home two weeks now, and I keep meaning to get to the store but I haven’t and so today I’m driving over to the Trader Joe’s on my lunch break to use a gift certificate to fill up my wine fridge a little because it is well needed.

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I bought Spencer a pair of Harry Potter costume glasses, and he’s now obsessed with them (I got Henry a pair too but he doesn’t care). S wore them all weekend, and when I handed him his book for daily reading he yelled for his glasses so he could see better. They are costume. They do not help see. I don’t know if it’s the Potter glasses specifically, or if someone at school has glasses or what the deal is. My husband and I both wear glasses but we didn’t get them until adulthood – me in college, C in his late 20s. His vision is fine, to my knowledge (last checked in February) so I suppose it’s just a stage. I wanted glasses a lot of my childhood.