A few weeks ago, Omaha and I attended the Democratic district caucuses and through some bizarre set of circumstances ended up being the representatives to our legislative district as well. This Saturday was that day. So we woke the kids early and gave them a quickie breakfast of home-made bran muffins and orange-banana smoothies, then herded them out the door.
( The 33rd Democratic Legislative District. An Exercise in Patience. )
I got home, made tuna-fish sandwiches for everybody, and then took a nap while Omaha hacked on her computer and the girls went outside to play. When I woke up an hour later, I had a curious post-nap blurriness of vision that took about twenty minutes to work itself out; this happens whenever I nap in the daytime and use the facemask to keep the light out. It went away after twenty minutes or so.
Omaha went out to visit with some friends, so I had the girls to myself. I cooked dinner-- adult macaroni and cheese, which actually takes a while to make since it's a full-blown white sauce recipe. One of my better investments was in the non-stick cookware, which made cleaning up a white sauce recipe trivial.
( Adult Macaroni and Cheese: The Recipe )
Dinner was at 7:30, and around 8:00 we settled down to watch the "Japanese" episode of My Life as a Teenage Robot, which was great. I think it's amusing that they can do an entire episode in Japanese, expecting the American kid audience to be hip enough to "get it." We played a few rounds of Sequence, and I gave the kids ice cream cones with one small scoop of vanilla-- it was all we had left of that flavor.
While the kids got into their pyjamas and did a load of laundry and swept the dining room floor, put away the dishes and all the usual chores. They picked their books-- Horton Hears a Who for Yamaarashi-chan, Hop On Pop for Kouryou-chan-- and we read them. The girls went to bed without complaint and then so did I, too tired even with my nap after such a long and rather grueling morning.
( The 33rd Democratic Legislative District. An Exercise in Patience. )
I got home, made tuna-fish sandwiches for everybody, and then took a nap while Omaha hacked on her computer and the girls went outside to play. When I woke up an hour later, I had a curious post-nap blurriness of vision that took about twenty minutes to work itself out; this happens whenever I nap in the daytime and use the facemask to keep the light out. It went away after twenty minutes or so.
Omaha went out to visit with some friends, so I had the girls to myself. I cooked dinner-- adult macaroni and cheese, which actually takes a while to make since it's a full-blown white sauce recipe. One of my better investments was in the non-stick cookware, which made cleaning up a white sauce recipe trivial.
( Adult Macaroni and Cheese: The Recipe )
Dinner was at 7:30, and around 8:00 we settled down to watch the "Japanese" episode of My Life as a Teenage Robot, which was great. I think it's amusing that they can do an entire episode in Japanese, expecting the American kid audience to be hip enough to "get it." We played a few rounds of Sequence, and I gave the kids ice cream cones with one small scoop of vanilla-- it was all we had left of that flavor.
While the kids got into their pyjamas and did a load of laundry and swept the dining room floor, put away the dishes and all the usual chores. They picked their books-- Horton Hears a Who for Yamaarashi-chan, Hop On Pop for Kouryou-chan-- and we read them. The girls went to bed without complaint and then so did I, too tired even with my nap after such a long and rather grueling morning.
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