a friend of mine who has been on co op out of state came back into town for the weekend. we had lunch together, along with Thing Two. Thing One and Beloved had gone to run a different errand -- getting a music stand and a tuning fork for her cello. They had lunch out, as wellI hadn't seen this friend in some time, and it was great to hang out. Thing Two was a very good girl, with no complaints or anything. I had delicious raw fish, and Thing Two had Pad Thai, and my friend had a Bento Box. Then we went to get coffee.

Coffee is something I shouldn't be drinking. My acupuncture doctor told me so. Beloved tries to enforce this. But I keep drinking it on the weekends --- i've switched over to green tea during the week, which is a miracle, since Starbucks is on the first floor of my building, and people pop their head in once an HOUR to see if we want something from downstairs. But on the weekends, I allow myself this little cup of fun.

It was very nice to talk with my friend. we spoke of our grades, and some classmates, and we spoke about books, and movies. we may both be around during spring break, and were thinking of what movies we'd like to see during the day while my kids are being edumacated. it was good.

Then the girls and I went to Target to get a black leotard, black pants, and black shirts - the girls' play costumes. The play is next weekend. Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday afternoon, and Saturday night. It is going to be one. crazy. week. And their dad is coming for the Friday night performance, and wants to hang out with Thing Two during the Saturday night performance, b/c she's not in that one, but she doesn't want to. She wants to go to the play. I have to go to all FOUR performances. Yikes. Ex-Schlurg refuses to go to even two. He is going to only one.

The girls are currently fighting. Sort of. They were drawing, side by side, and Thing One reached over to "add an ear" to Thing Two's drawing, and Thing Two pitched a fit that Thing One isn't allowed to draw on her pictures, and she's crying, and yelling, and Thing One is saying, "i'm sorry, i didn't know it was such a big deal. i'm sorry. is there anything i can do to make it better?" but Thing Two just keeps crying and saying "you should ask first!"

i'm sure that those of you who don't have kids are now glad of that fact. The noise level here is loud. i'm trying to pretend it's not happening, and to not interject, b/c i think that they need to learn to handle these things. but ..... Thing Two is being annoying. She isn't feeling very well this weekend, and that may be part of why a giant brat-like creature is climbing out of her, but it's still annoying.

posted by Zuska @ 6:07 PM

1 Comments:

At Sunday, February 05, 2006 2:02:00 PM, Filch said…

I have a Very Important Question for you. Very important because I have two kids, who will be 6 and 2 when I start law school myself in the fall, and they're pretty rambunctious and generally noisy, and hopefully we'll be able to get a big enough place at whatever law school it is I end up at, but what do you do when you just _gots_ to study?