This afternoon at the Wincklers’

Friday  in mid-afternoon  Mystie

I don’t post enough little tidbits from our days. I save up long updates or stories, I post links and thoughts about what I’m reading, I use my blog as a vent for adult “conversation” — I have 4 long posts in the works, getting content added and edited in bits and pieces as the time and inspiration comes — but I should post more little tidbits from our days that will make grandparents smile now and will be what I will want to look back over when I no longer have little ones running amok.

My boys both have a cold, and I can feel the virus attempting to get at me. So far I’m holding it off tolerably well, but the boys’ noses are ever-flowing spouts of green gunk. I decided that because they need rest to get better and I need rest because I haven’t gotten enough sleep all week, I’d give them a dose of medicine that would hopefully keep them sleeping a longish time this afternoon. Jaeger went down pretty readily thereafter, but Hans spent about 30 minutes coming up with reasons to get up and ask questions. Finally, a small toy allowed, he climbed into my bed and stayed there until he fell asleep 15 minutes later. Jaeger woke up about 10 minutes after that, thinking that an hour was way too long to waste in sleeping. He was probably too hungry to sleep. He’s contentedly munching on crackers at the table, only occasionally asking after Hans, wondering why Hans is not forthcoming. Hans is still sleeping soundly and will most likely awake to shouts of dismay when he comes to enough to realize he actually, against his will, took a nap.

I began a batch of cookies only to remember half-way through that I was out of eggs. I am drinking my second cup of black Tetley tea with milk, after rediscovering said drink with Elly’s friend Alice on Monday. I have been reading garden books and browsing a seed catalog this morning, trying to figure out what I’ll do with our newly acquired yard that needs much sprucing if not a total rework. Our last yard did, too, and we didn’t do anything to it, but I’m feeling the motivation this time around to take some dominion.

Dinner — chicken pot pie filling and a premade pie crust — is defrosting; I’ll find out this evening if homemade pie crust can be frozen and used like store-bought.

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