A small revelation
While returning a book on quantum physics to the library that morning, take a call from Mom… Christopher Robin over in his treasure hunting gear, lost the location of all the decades-buried pennies in the honeysuckle hedge; provide instruction
Paint my 3D balloon animal a shade of mixed reds with a shiny coat of Mod Podge
Oxbear and I – amazingly – leave all three children at home together at the same time to…
…pick up more boxes of 3D filament
…stop at the Colombian Maize and Wheat cafe for empanadas (cheese for me) with cream sauce
…while listening to a podcast on demonic forces as discussed by one of the desert fathers, Evagrius of Pontus… “Note the day,” Oxbear tells me, “that we can leave our kids home alone together and go on dates.”
Puck walks out in the late afternoon to give Patience a tutorial on lifting five-pound weights, and to bark at me about a leak above the kitchen door as a light rain begins to drizzle in a darkening sky
Patience gets busy gluing rhinestones back on her solo dress spread out on my bed, before buttering and wrapping sweet potatoes in foil for the pressure cooker… Miss Home Ec
Oxbear and Yali prepare to print a deck of skeletons for Yali’s ongoing Jurassic playscapes
Chopped beef and aged cheddar on toast (page from Britain I guess) while watching clips on how to escape quicksand
Then shuttle Patience back through the cold rain to her final dance class at the studio before Oireachtas
Kids tucked in their bunks while Oxbear and I continue a TV drama featuring the state of Kansas