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Feb. 16th, 2015 08:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckWe got a kind of late start yesterday, so Scott ended up dropping me and Cordelia off at Girl Scouts at 1:00 and going on to the library on his own. The downside of that is that he didn't realize I had an interlibrary loan book waiting and so didn't pick it up (getting that requires going to the front desk and asking for it). That book will go away if we don't pick it up by Friday, so we'll have to go down mid-week for it. It's cold enough that I'm not willing to take the trip by bus.
Most of the Girl Scout meeting focused on making invitations for the Brownie troop. Our girls are inviting the Brownies to a brunch in mid-April. I think it will be very challenging-- There are only about six girls who come to meetings regularly, and there are twenty four Brownies. After the invitations were done, the kids played musical chairs. There were seven kids, including one boy, the leader's son who is too young to be left home alone.
Cordelia is mad at me because I decided we should walk home after the meeting. It was pretty cold, but it's only four or five blocks (it would be less than half that if we could cut around the school the way we used to. Unfortunately, the construction means we can't). Scott thinks, too, that I should have called him for a ride. Maybe he and Cordelia are right. I was certainly exhausted by the time we got home.
We left for Scott's sister's place almost immediately after Girl Scouts. I wanted a little more time to recover before leaving, but Scott and Cordelia were ready to go pretty much immediately. We were the first to arrive at the gathering, but other people arrived within about half an hour. There was a big game of Telestrations that lasted pretty much until dinner time.
The venison stew didn't taste to me like venison I've had before. It was kind of flavorless. Scott's sister told us that she almost, without thinking about it, put beef boullion in. Fortunately, she caught herself in time. That would have made Scott extremely sick.
Our nephew talked to us more during dinner than he has the last few times we've shared dinner with him. Usually, he's plugged into some electronic device or another and leaves the table as soon as he can get away with. I think it helps that Scott and I have some familiarity with anime/manga series like Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Yu-Gi-Oh.
Dessert was a choice of blueberry pie or apple pie. Scott's mother sent the leftover apple pie home with us.
Scott got a copy of the XCom board game from his sister and brother. He got a Star Wars t-shirt from his parents and a receipt showing that they ordered a copy of the Firefly board game for him (it's out of stock at Amazon. They're not sure when they'll have it again).
There's no school at all this week which may be just as well given how cold it's supposed to be. I will have two extra kids on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, but it will be just me and Cordelia on Thursday and Friday. At least Cordelia's got plenty of library books. Cordelia tried to persuade me to sleep in this morning, but I thought the other kids' parents would prefer me to be up and about when they dropped their children off.
Most of the Girl Scout meeting focused on making invitations for the Brownie troop. Our girls are inviting the Brownies to a brunch in mid-April. I think it will be very challenging-- There are only about six girls who come to meetings regularly, and there are twenty four Brownies. After the invitations were done, the kids played musical chairs. There were seven kids, including one boy, the leader's son who is too young to be left home alone.
Cordelia is mad at me because I decided we should walk home after the meeting. It was pretty cold, but it's only four or five blocks (it would be less than half that if we could cut around the school the way we used to. Unfortunately, the construction means we can't). Scott thinks, too, that I should have called him for a ride. Maybe he and Cordelia are right. I was certainly exhausted by the time we got home.
We left for Scott's sister's place almost immediately after Girl Scouts. I wanted a little more time to recover before leaving, but Scott and Cordelia were ready to go pretty much immediately. We were the first to arrive at the gathering, but other people arrived within about half an hour. There was a big game of Telestrations that lasted pretty much until dinner time.
The venison stew didn't taste to me like venison I've had before. It was kind of flavorless. Scott's sister told us that she almost, without thinking about it, put beef boullion in. Fortunately, she caught herself in time. That would have made Scott extremely sick.
Our nephew talked to us more during dinner than he has the last few times we've shared dinner with him. Usually, he's plugged into some electronic device or another and leaves the table as soon as he can get away with. I think it helps that Scott and I have some familiarity with anime/manga series like Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Yu-Gi-Oh.
Dessert was a choice of blueberry pie or apple pie. Scott's mother sent the leftover apple pie home with us.
Scott got a copy of the XCom board game from his sister and brother. He got a Star Wars t-shirt from his parents and a receipt showing that they ordered a copy of the Firefly board game for him (it's out of stock at Amazon. They're not sure when they'll have it again).
There's no school at all this week which may be just as well given how cold it's supposed to be. I will have two extra kids on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, but it will be just me and Cordelia on Thursday and Friday. At least Cordelia's got plenty of library books. Cordelia tried to persuade me to sleep in this morning, but I thought the other kids' parents would prefer me to be up and about when they dropped their children off.
