No juice and no TV make Em something something.
Em had a writing assignment in school today. I think she was supposed to write what she did this weekend. Here’s what she wrote.
We watched TV all day. My mom asked me if I wanted to do anything, but I said no! to evering. I didn’t move around like everybody should. I fell asleep because I got tired. I stayed at home all day.
And now no doubt we look like terrible parents who park our kid in front of the TV all day.
But she didn’t fall asleep during the day, she fell asleep at bedtime. And she did say she wanted to do something, she decided to come with me to a Browncoat video shoot on Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately, as she put it, “this was not what I was expecting.” It was significantly more waiting around in a hotel lobby than she could be expected to gracefully put up with, so I took her back home to hang out with her father. She also went with him to get doughnuts on Sunday, and to the toy store and several hardware stores while he struggled in vain to fix our leaky sink. She even got popcorn at one of the stores.
Also she did move around. She even had swimming lessons on Saturday morning.
I think she was probably just in a bit of a mopey mood when she was writing, so she just wrote what came to her mind about the weekend without reflecting. Oh well. Hopefully the teacher will get to know us this year and we can correct first impressions.
As for that sink, the plumber is coming tomorrow afternoon to fix it, since it has moved from “slight leak” to “mostly disassembled.” It happens. When the pipes are 40+ years old, they break. No blame to my husband, it’s just time to bring in a professional.