it’s, oh, so quiet

My birthday is in two days. I will be 42. My mother was a grandmother when she was 42. The mind boggles.

We spent a quiet couple of days at home this past weekend. Sam was away for most of it — play dates and birthday parties and such. Where he gets this trait, the one that enables him to so easily make friends, I do not know. Anyway, the weather was beautiful, it still is — 18°C, sunny and breezy today. Such a treat in November. Noel spent most of it on Phase Two of Project Moving the Rooms Around so we didn’t really see him a lot. He locked himself in the Future Workroom with a towel stuffed under the door to keep the plaster dust from flying. So Ollie and I were together a lot. He came grocery shopping with me and got to choose what to have for supper and picked a special pop to make up for the fact that his brother would most likely be returning home from the birthday party with a goody bag (as it turned out, it was a full-fledged Webkinz. Sam was delighted) and then we made Rice Krispie squares. The three of us went for a bike ride to the video rental store and Ollie picked a movie. I really don’t miss the bickering when Sam is gone, and Ollie is always a delight to be with whenever I can get him alone like that, but I really did miss my Sam. By the time he was done being a social butterfly, I was so happy to see him. The whole time he was gone, our family just was not complete.  

On the knitting front, out of my three active projects, I completely frogged one, and partially frogged another. Sigh. Two steps forward. Three steps back. It’s okay, though. It’s all okay.

I really want to get up and grab one of those yummy granola bars I have stashed in the cupboard upstairs, the ones with the dark chocolate chunks and whole almonds, the ones that I bought for me but then the kids discovered them and love them too so now I have to share. But Win is on my lap, all stretched out and soft and warm and sleeping, I am listening to music over my computer (the Cowboy Junkies, I love the Cowboy Junkies), it is quiet, the kids are at school, Noel is away at a meeting and I am alone in the house. I just do not want to disturb the peace.