So today was a rather lazy day for us - it is Good Friday, so we didn't have school. L and I slept late, played on the internet checking out funny Google map photos, etc, all morning. We went to town this afternoon, ran errands, stocked up on groceries for the next week - all of the necessities, which L tolerates, but not well. We stopped at the shop on the way home and dilly-dallied there, too - the point of all this is, we didn't get home until about 6, when we usually eat. And I had my heart set of making a specific new recipe tonight for dinner, one from The Pioneer Woman. Everything on her blog is amazing, and none of her recipes have ever failed me. I had my heart set of making her "Fancy Macaroni", so I gave L a banana to tide her over and made the macaroni. We wound up not eating until 7, but it was so worth it. Homemade macaroni with bacon in it - made from scratch with egg yolks and cream and butter and all of that good stuff. It was heavenly comfort food. So my family pitched in to help create it and then watched Cars on TV while it baked. I took dinner out to them in the living room when it was ready - yes, I know that isn't actually great parenting to eat dinner together in front of the television, but that's real life around here sometimes. At any rate, L cleaned her plate before I even sat down with my plate and my book. She asked for more, so I directed her to the kitchen to serve her own. She returned with a helping of macaroni bigger than her own head and said "This will do for now". I laughed so hard I couldn't eat, but she actually proceeded to eat every bite of it. I guess I'll chalk that up to appreciation for the recipe!
My other funny moment with L today was as we were sorting through her school papers from the week, deciding what to keep in her file box and what to recycle. There was a drawing that I could tell wasn't created by her, but it wasn't signed by anyone else. I put it in the recycle pile, thinking it was a note from someone or a mistakenly-picked-up paper, but she said, "Actually, I'd like to keep that. (Boy's name) made it." Well, that got my attention. This is the same boy that told her he really liked her a few weeks ago, and she told him that she thinks he's a really nice person, but she doesn't think she's old enough to like boys "that way" (thank goodness!) Anyhow, I was intrigued that she'd want to keep the drawing from him; I just said okay and moved it into the file pile. Then she said, "Actually, I was thinking we could give it to cousin G for his birthday - the drawing is kind of monster-ish and G likes monsters." Ahhh, that's better - not keeping it for the sake of sentiment, but RE-GIFTING it...
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