// ONE //
I am so glad last week is over! It was a rough one for us. Not only was the weather miserably hot and then miserably cold and rainy, but also the kids were sick. And they tag-teamed me! I knew something was terribly wrong when Lamborghini didn’t want to go outside and look for snails.
It’s his favorite pastime at the moment. Later in the evening, he started to get a high fever, and he just fell apart. It had been so long since he had been sick that the poor little guy didn’t know what was going on. He cried for about an hour while we snuggled with him and waited for the ibuprofen to kick in. All the while, The Dot ran around the living room insisting, “I sick.” This is how she took her temperature to convince us she had a fever:
But she didn’t actually get sick until later in the week when Lamborghini was fully recovered and wanting to get back to the snail routine. By that time, however, a cool front was blowing through and the weather was awful. Plus my allergies were out of control. And Mr. L was locked in his office writing reports all week (it’s almost worse when they work from home, isn’t it?). We were a mess. Still are, actually.
// TWO //
Despite the setback, we did manage to get out and vote on Tuesday. To kill time (and to avoid contagiousness), I ended up loading the kids in the Bob and walking to the polling station. They seemed to enjoy the ride.
The kids made out like bandits with all of the “I voted” stickers. In the five minutes it took for me to exit the building, four people gave them stickers.
I was DYING by the time we got back home because holy cow it was hot outside and the humidity had to be close to 100%. Plus it was a long walk.
// THREE //
Because the kids were cooped up inside for most of the week, I had to get creative with our activities. Admittedly, there was a lot of TV time. The Dot is obsessed with babies right now, and all she wants to watch is Boss Baby on Netflix because the baby is on the screen all the time. She doesn’t seem to mind that the baby has the voice of Alec Baldwin. It’s reached a point in which she is the “boss baby,” and now when I ask Lamborghini what he wants to watch he says, “Watch Boss Baby for [The Dot].” Sigh.
While watching Boss Baby one day, we did take some time to make Cheerio bracelets out of Cheerios and cooking twine. Lamborghini appreciated the activity. The Dot appreciated the final product.
We also went on several treasure hunts around the house. Lamborghini has a special “treasure box” that may, in its former life, have been a box that Mr. L’s headphones came in. But he carries the box around the house while we go search for treasures in various upstairs and downstairs closets.
Is it just me, or does everyone have loads of costume jewelry that used to belong to their grandmother? The fact that we always find a treasure in every closet is probably a tell-tale sign that I need to clean some things out. However, the treasure hunt has become a weekly event for us, and Lamborghini has a blast.
// FOUR //
If you didn’t see my post last week about our newest construction project, that’s a good thing. I was sooooo excited to build the Trader Joe’s gingerbread turkey with Lamborghini, but it was a huge let down. Huge!
First, it didn’t come with any icing. The kit just had a box of powdered sugar with ambiguous instructions for making icing printed on it. I suppose I am partly to fault for not reading the directions on the back of the box before I purchased the turkey. But darn it why couldn’t they just include premade icing like they did with the chocolate haunted house kit!?
And the instructions for mixing the icing were particularly fun—NOT. “Add a few drops of lemon juice to make the mixture sticky enough to hold the gingerbread pieces together,” it said. Say again? Is “sticky enough” a technical term? I think not. So you add a few drops of lemon juice to the powdered mess, put the icing in the piping bag, and, after piping a big goop on the gingerbread piece, realize it’s not “sticky enough” to hold the pieces together. Grrrrr.
On a side note, if you ever do pastry decorating of any sort, I highly recommend buying these disposable icing piping bags
Back to the turkey, though. The worst offense was the fact that this turkey came with minimal candy. The candy is the whole reason you even build these things!!! Again, I should have guessed from the front of the box, but we barely had enough knock-off M&Ms and gummy candy left over to decorate. Oh. And sprinkles.
What. A. Mess.
Nevertheless I tried to stay positive because Lamborghini had been so excited about the turkey. But by the end of it I think he was over it too.
// FIVE //
Lastly, I wanted to share a couple of articles that I enjoyed reading this week.
The first is this well-thought-out post by one of my favorite bloggers about decorating mistakes she has made over the years. I think we’ve all made the mistake of committing to wall paint colors based on the fan deck without testing them out first, but this post delves a little bit deeper into the common mistakes and how to fix them. Plus, it provides good decorating tips.
Second, is this hilarious and fascinating chronicle of the tiara Princess Eugenie wore on her wedding day. The lady who writes this blog cracks me up, and all of her posts are painstakingly researched and incredibly detailed. I got hooked when I read this post that follows up on the whereabouts of the 2009 preppy college student featured in New York Magazine for his awesomely decorated dorm room.
Finally, I will leave you with this photo my mom sent me of her cat:
I don’t think it needs much explanation. But this level of relaxation and coziness is something we should all strive for this coming week. I hope you stay warm and have a great one!
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