3 About the 3: Random Tidbits (All at the Kitchen Table)

Kyle is home sick from school today. Bad cold. Poor boy. Braydon and I had this same cold last week. It is a nasty one. We plowed through our days of work, wishing we could take sick days (but knowing we have to save every morsel of our “sick day” excuses for when our kids get sick). Good thing we did that!!… because less than a week later… here we are!… using our “sick day” excuses to re-schedule our work days so that we can stay home with Ky Ky. Today we’re taking turns; I covered the morning and Braydon is covering the afternoon. Thus is the life of a dual-career-family-with-no-relatives-anywhere-nearby. I had to cancel 4 different meetings in order to be home this morning… which means I will now need to reschedule 4 different meetings… somehow cramming them into my already jam-packed calendar. The beautiful thing, though?! Kyle has no clue. All he knows is this: His mommy sat on the couch with him all morning (me with my laptop, him watching videos), getting up only to periodically check the soup on the stove. At age 7, he knows nothing of the stress a day like this causes, but knows everything about the importance, and inherited ritual, of homemade chicken noodle soup on a sick day. As it should be.

Owen was thrilled when I brought home fancy yogurt covered pretzels to have for dessert last night. He loves to try to make letters out of pretzels by nibbling little bits and pieces off to turn the pretzel shapes into letter shapes. He and I sat at the kitchen table after dinner, carefully working on the above project, which was entirely his idea.

Meera has now passed an important milestone in life: full participation in a family board game! Candy Land it was! We played it as a family—all five of us—last night. The boys have long since outgrown Candy Land, but were good sports about playing it for Meera’s sake. It was our first time playing a whole entire round of a board game with all five of us together!