Ok, so this is a bit of an exaggeration. It’s not that I haven’t enjoyed having Lucy home, but more that I have seriously missed doing things in relative quiet. Like washing dishes. Or going to the bathroom. Or sleeping. Or, as right now, taking a bit of goof-off time on the computer.
I’ll be honest. I’m mighty sick of hearing, ‘Mommy!’ I need a little bit of time, in the apartment, to myself. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. And, yes, I will be back to missing her by Wednesday.
In the meantime, I am feeling like there are so many things I wanted to do with her over this break that we didn’t get around to, so my mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to sort out what we have time for and what we’ll most enjoy. My first plan, making soup together, was shot down viciously, which is a problem as the soup ingredients need to be used pronto. There is a no-sew fleece blanket we started making last week, but that sort of fizzled out interest-wise. It’s too chilly for a trip to the playground. None of the seeds have gotten here yet (and I was really counting on at least some of them coming during the break.) This means we’re down to either making bath salts or an outing to the Good Grocery. Wish me luck!
Speaking of the Good Grocery, I’m going to try to cut out the Fresh Direct order. As I was hauling ten pounds of cardboard down to the bulk trash/recycling room, it struck me that close to half of our weekly recycling is cardboard. Obviously, much of this load was from the Earthbox (two boxes! Crazy!) and the water jug and the old box from the fleece, but the other half was Fresh Direct boxes. I mostly order from them because of the selection of local produce, but factoring in the delivery gasoline as well as the cardboard, I’m not so sure it doesn’t make more sense to buy at the conventional grocery until I can get to the Greenmarket regularly/CSA starts up. I’m going to skip the order this week and see if there’s any way to buy local locally. That would surely be nicer.
