Here are a few pics and stories from a typical Thursday night at the Mac House.
Tonight J asked me if I wanted leftover gnocchi or stir fry for dinner. I told him “either.” Clare looked up and said “I want Either too!” She always wants to eat what we’re having. Except that a few weeks ago she wanted some of J’s sriracha sauce. J gave her the teensiest taste of it on his finger and she declared it “gives me an owie on my tongue! I need milk!” Tonight she saw J’s sriracha sauce and said “No Dada. I don’t want that! I don’t like it.”
I convinced J to actually take my picture at 37 weeks. This is a pretty typical evening look in our kitchen – me in PJs with hair and makeup done from the work day, random mess including a pumpkin on the stove (just because), random mixing bowl and cookbook on the counter for the pizza dough that J is making tonight, a chair pulled out into the kitchen so that Clare can watch J make the dough, and a package on the table behind me from Grandma T (Thanks for the curtains!!).
Our usual bedtime ritual includes brushing teeth, bath, putting on PJs and reading books with her blanky. She usually requests to read books with Dad so this is a common evening sight. I tease J that he reads an extra book and that’s why she prefers him at bedtime, but I think it’s because this has turned into their special time together.
