March 29, 2013

• Nowhere to Go

  The plan for the day was to take Mary to the zoo, but obviously that did not happen because we had to give the borrowed car back this morning and the van was still dead as a doornail. I don’t think Mary minded that much–she seemed to really relish the downtime–and we can always try again on Monday.

  So instead we hung around the house (because we had no choice!) most of the day. Mary and Jasper went on a walk looking for birds’ nests, because Jasper is studying birds for science. Lucy made soft pretzels which looked beautiful and were reportedly very good.

  I spent about three hours up in Lucy’s room starting to sort and declutter so that we can get it all cleaned up and rearranged before Lina gets here in two weeks. Somehow we’ve got to make that room “shareable” after Lucy has had it to herself for almost a year. Originally all four of my girls slept up there!

  We had a bit of a crisis when it came time for Walter and Mercy to go to work this afternoon. The van was still dead. Walter had a long conversation with a mechanic friend and eventually, he ended up replacing another relay and shazam! The van started again. So at least they got to work and back!

  The kids all had plans for the evening, so Mary stayed home to watch a video with her boring old parents.

   

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