Day 15: Coda

To circle back on yesterday:

We did not make a fire, though I forgot to turn on the furnace (after I turned it off yesterday afternoon to open windows), and in the early hours this morning, I was thinking we could use a little fire and wished someone else was awake to build it.I did read aloud the first chapter of Tom Sawyer. I should have chosen something with less dialect. Did the boys like being read to? Tom didn’t say, Ez took it as an opportunity to cuddle me, and Jess thought it was strange I would “read him a book I can read to myself.”Ez made granola – I’m about to have some.Jess made bread and had a great attitude about it. Later, I found out that’s because he was trying to butter me up to rescind the afternoon video game ban. It didn’t happen, he feels his efforts were wasted, and I have two loaves of homemade bread!

In the afternoon, I found myself in the kitchen with one kid playing outside, another in his room for a rest, and another in his room, reading.

I thought: Wouldn’t it be grand if I ate a bowl of ice cream without interruption?

I took out the ice cream (chocolate almond coconut chip – Graeter’s), microwaved the bittersweet chocolate (Graeter’s), arranged it all in one of my pottery bowls, and ate it.

I wasn’t interrupted once.