Nothing scares us now though. Not since we've weathered those triple digit temps up to 113 degrees. 100 degrees is not even something to think about long.
I'll see how I feel the next 3 days. It's 81 now at 8:00 and comfortable with the windows open.
I'm not sure when I wrote this, but I got distracted and forgot to publish it. Busy times!
Noreen and I took our 4 kiddos to the park this morning at 9:30, and it was not too crowded. We're all wearing masks, mainly because of the upcoming trip and keeping the girls healthy and also because it's just the thing to do with school starting soon and these kids being so precious to us. I'm sorry for the uncaring ones who have lapped up the misinformation and are putting us all at risk. Those are the very ones who are so vocal and mean-spirited about those of us who feel differently. Even an 8-year-old and a 5-year-old do not complain about wearing masks when it is explained to them that children do get sick when they pick up the germs. It was hard for them to be the only kids in their gymnastics class with masks on two weeks ago, but last week, several more families were masked, and yesterday there were many more.
So we met at the park and found a shady bench, although Noreen and I hardly ever sat down. Her 5-year-old kept her running, and we both helped hold them all on the thing - whatever it's called - where they hold onto the top with their hands and swing around until they have to drop. This thing:
Orbitron. I never knew the name of it.
Graysen and Anthony were in the same video classroom this year but really don't know each other, but they found plenty to talk about, and it was so cute. He and his family had been to Hawaii last year, and he filled Graysen in on what to expect. "You know it takes 6 hours to get there, so don't expect it to be quick." The girls are excited about the snorkeling and whales and dolphins, and Anthony was telling them about a water slide at his hotel - which probably won't be at the girls' - but it was sweet to hear the give and take. Anthony had heard about Mount Rushmore and was amazed that the girls' grandparents lived in the same state as that - even though they've never seen it! I wish I had taken at least one picture.
We had another missing cat today, but I don't think Bowie was exactly missing. He hides a lot when the girls are over here, and I didn't check to see if he was present when I went to bed last night. This morning when I fed them, he didn't show up in the laundry room. That worried me, because he does like to eat. I looked all around outside, but the landscape guys had on the loud mowers and blowers, so I knew he was nowhere around.
I kind of half-heartedly worried about him all day, and when we came home in the afternoon, we told the upstairs neighbors and looked pretty hard for him. I left the garage door raised a little bit in case he was nearby. Just as I was going inside from the front porch, the sweet little Mormon girls passed by and stopped. They did their usual little conversation about asking if I had anything they could help with or anything I needed and quoted some scripture. I told them about Bowie, and one of them prayed a long and fervent prayer for his return and for our night to be a happy one. I thanked them and went inside and started on my newest Purple Carrot meal. About 10 minutes into that, here came Bowie strolling down the hall. That's the quickest answered prayer I've ever had. I'm not sure where he had been all that time, but he was glad to eat and glad Graysen and Katherine were gone.
I got the girls to work on a little schoolwork today. We have a box of sight words from age 4 to grade 3. I think I had started on some of them with Graysen years ago and forgot about them. I showed them to Katherine, and she did the first two levels perfectly. I then let Graysen do the rest of the box, and she didn't miss one. Looks like we need to move on to a different set of words.
Katherine is working on Graysen's old 1st grade workbook that she didn't finish, and she's pretty good on her addition and subtraction. I'm not sure where she's supposed to be. Her main problem is making her 3's and 5's backwards! Graysen did two math pages from the review her teacher sent home with the class for 3rd grade.
They read a couple of books to each other and then played on their own a while. They're pretty self-sufficient but do like to mention watching TV or having a snack pretty often - just to see if maybe I have my guard down.
My dinner tonight was totally different from anything I've ever had. I've never cooked with - or probably eaten - kimchi or bok choy.
These are the 3 choices for this week.
I did the kimchi mushroom fried rice.
There was quite a bit of chopping - carrots, scallions, ginger, baby bok choy, garlic, cremini mushrooms, and kimchi. All that was stir-fried and served on fried rice topped with scallions and a siracha aioli.
It didn't look that appetizing to me, but I was tired and really hungry. Nothing from breakfast until 5:00. But it was surprisingly good. The kimchi's spiciness perked it up, and I tasted the ginger but wasn't offended by it. The other veggies had just the right amount of crunchiness. The picture above is half the meal, and I could eat only a little over half of this. So filling. Looks like I'll get 3 meals from this dish. As long as I'm having fun with it, I'll keep on ordering, and then I'll look at changing to another plan. I haven't missed meat at all.
Yesterday we went across the street to play in the "water" park with Carly from upstairs. These girls play wonderfully together, and I had such a good afternoon. Sitting there enjoying perfect weather and hearing all the laughter and conversation from the girls, it was hard to believe so much bad is going on in the world right now.
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