Mortimer's Mom

Buzy Buzy!

A 3 day weekend.... what to do, what to do????

First off, Dumpling now eats lunch at school, and they asked for a cloth placemat daily. Since it's a Kosher environment, I figured she would need 2, one for meat, one for dairy. I was just going to take a big placemat and cut it in half, but then, I figured I could do better. For the details, head over to the craft blog.

 

We also took the kiddos to the farmers market. it's always buzy there, like during berry season, but I have NEVER seen it as buzy as during TOMATO season. Wow! the italian families buying vats and vats of tomatoes, filling the trunks of the cars! I simplly couldn't resist and came home with this small 30+ pound bag of roma tomatoes. It took me about 4 hours of prep and 2 hours of cooking, along with the biggest plant of basil I have ever seen (it was as tall as Dumpling and as wide as Beach Ball!!!) to turn these tomatoes into a 10-container batch of homemade tomato sauce. We had it for dinner, it was delicious.

Corn is also in season. Beach Ball likes corn....

Meeee Keeeew!

it's now Day 5 and I'm happy to report that I have managed to wash my face morning and night every single day. Last night, I forgot. I was tucked in bed with the ipod, about to watch the first episode of The Tudors, but I dragged  my sorry behind to the bathroom and scrubbed. I haven't added the moisturizer yet because I haven't had a minute to go buy any.

Sooooo. Bionic Granddad is doing great and walked in the hallway today with a walker. He should go home this weekend. And Dumpling already likes her new school/class. It's not entirely new, as it is attached to the Synagogue where she attended the morning nursery program these past two years, and lots of the kids are the same kids. But it's in the Big Building, with the Big Kids. And parents can't go into the classroom. We bring them to their cubby and then say our goodbyes. She did OK with that. And she ate lunch at school today, for the first time ever. Surprisingly, she ate a good 75% of what I sent her. Sure, I started with hard boiled eggs and cucumber slices, something she would never turn down, but still, I wasn't there to coax her to eat it!

What isn't going so well however is Beach Ball and her reaction to her sister being gone half the day.... She is JEALOUS! She wants to go! the first hour after Dumpling leaves, all we hear is Meeeee Kew (that's School in BB speak). Me! KEEEEEWWWW!

Let's see how she likes it when we actually try to bring her next week!!!!