Oops, forgot good things

Never mind, some other time. Tomorrow morning we're all (all four of us) going to see what the Friends Meeting House is like. Bit trepidatious but there you go. Worst that can happen is we don't like it and leave, politely.

Well, we could be hit by a meteorite while there, but that's not terribly likely.

Quaker Meeting

I've done a locked post on it - if you can't see it and want to, please comment here.

ETA: coo, a lot of people I sort of assumed were on my flist aren't. Now I will NEVER be able to keep up.

Days 9 and 10: Good things

Day 9: Friday the ninth of January

⁷⁸We all woke in good humour and ⁷⁹breakfast was marvellous. ⁸⁰The house was tidy because we'd done so much on the day before and ⁸¹the children and I had a sweet fruit omelette for lunch. ⁸²A community I'm in had a huge recipes fest with breakfasts, lunches and soups all involved, and ⁸³we had a lovely dinner of burgers followed by Rob's very first madeira cake for dessert. The children and I iced it together and Rob, Linnea and I liked it very much. Emer's not that pushed but it's cake, she's not all that pushed about cake anyway. ⁸⁴Rob's Christmas present finally arrived and ⁸⁵Emer and I had a lot of fun wrapping it and ⁸⁶Rob seemed to like it and ⁸⁷he gave me The Audacity of Hope with which I am delighted.

Day 10: Saturday

⁸⁸Rob and the children spent a good deal of time together and ⁸⁹Rob cooked lunch. We had a tiff about the state the house and kitchen get into when he's home, as usual, but then we got into some DIY instead so that the house looked worse but I felt better about it. ⁹⁰We're putting wall-mounted shelves up in the front room around the television so that we gain floorspace and shelf-space over the units we were using instead. As a side-effect we ⁹¹got rid of a load of video tapes we never used and didn't care about; they're in a bag waiting for a charity shop or something. We haven't got rid of any more books yet but I'm sure we will. ⁹²It also gives the kids more toy-space and I think it means we can better organise the cables for the home entertainment malarky. In his copious free time, ⁹³Rob brought the damaged trike wheel to the repair guy to have a new spoke fitted. Perhaps in summer I'll learn to do it myself and show Rob. He was very happy to learn how to mend a puncture.

In the evening, ⁹⁴Rob and I watched TV together, which doesn't happen very much, but we're trying to do more of it. Neither of us is really into TV but we can try.

Happy Christmas!

Thank you to Janice and Taras who gave us a card saying that a family in Africa had been given seeds, tools, and training to use them, this Christmas. I really love those.

Day 11: Good things

⁹⁵We woke on time to have showers before going out, and ⁹⁶we all ate a hot breakfast. Then I put my morning coffee in a bag and we got the children into the trike and ⁹⁷Rob biked and I triked to the Quaker Meeting House, which was very pleasant. When we got back we ate ⁹⁸bagels for lunch and Linnea did some computering. Emer napped. Also, ⁹⁹we got more shelving done in the front room; Rob cut existing shelves to new lengths and used old screws to put them securely in place, so almost all the books are now up. ¹⁰⁰We brought down a trunk with a hinged lid for the dressing up clothes so even the rigid hats fit in now and the top can be used as a bench.

It doesn't look as nice as the old stuff did because it's still halfway there, which is a shame, but I'm sure it will look ok when we're done.

¹⁰¹Emer and I had a bath after Linnea was in bed, which was funny and loving and very chatty. Then she got out and I turned the hot tap on and ¹⁰²had a very hot soak for a bit.

And about five minutes ago ¹⁰³I discovered an unopened tin of pepparkakor in the kitchen. I'll open them on Friday.