Well I was on a roll there, but then real life showed up
and I totally forgot about blogging yesterday. Meh.
This weekend though, was the best. We bought tickets to a
Greek festival at the local Orthodox Church for this weekend, so we went on
Saturday. There were FIVE bounce houses that the kids spent an inordinate
amount of time on, and a bake sale with all sorts of confections and a
ridiculous amount of food and Greek-themed items to buy from vendors (my
favorite: a shirt/mug that says “I’m not yelling, I’m Greek – that’s how we
talk”). We got fried dough (like doughnut holes, covered in honey and cinnamon and
nuts) and a sampler plate to share and desserts and let the kids jump more on
the bouncy stuff. Spencer really wanted to do ring toss so I gave him a dollar
to do the wine toss – and he made it! And guess what the prize was? A BOTTLE OF
WINE. My six year old made me proud by winning me a bottle of wine. Hallelujah.
(I bought this lovely almond loaf for Sunday breakfast, and it was a sound and delicious investment)
The whining (heh) was a strong with the kiddos, but we
powered through the day and decided to go to Big Hero 6. I’m not going to lie,
we entertained the idea of going out to Disney but it was scheduled to be
chilly and rainy and blech. So the movie! Was sweet and good and not a comedy.
Henry stood up after the movie and declared “That was NOT funny.” He liked it
(a lot!), but like the rest of the world we were expecting a comedy and not a
touching why-we-became-superheroes story. What is it with Disney releasing
trailers that don’t give you any idea of the storyline? First Frozen wasn’t all
about the snowman and now this.
We also had dinner with our neighbor friends at a local
California taco place, and it was delicious and fun. We really need to spend
more time with friends. And I had macaroni and cheese with spinach, bacon and
goat cheese so that was a winner.
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Sunday was more of a lay around day. We’ve gotten used to
staying home on Sundays and watching football, cleaning, and generally being
lazy. We did that through the afternoon but then new-neighbor boy showed up and
we went over to play basketball with other neighbors (well, it started out that
the kids all wanted to play basketball but really they wanted to play on the
wooden tree swing and me and my neighbor played basketball for a couple hours)
We had a fire going most of the day even though it was in
the upper 60s (it was lovely) and I had a pork roast in the crock pot. I made
brownies with peanut butter cups in the bottom and guacamole. I watched a lot
of Gilmore Girls and didn’t read as much as I expected to. Nice, lazy day. For
dinner I made pork nachos which we ate by candlelight and football-on-tv light.
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