We’ve had a Netflix membership on and off for a few years. It’s fun to get a DVD in the mailbox, and the no-late-fees policy is great for people who have trouble returning movies on time.
Until recently, our queue has mainly been made up of movies. A few months ago, though, we replaced the movies almost entirely with TV shows. It started with “Doctor Who.” The new episodes were being broadcast on BBC, which wasn’t part of our cable package. Alex was heartbroken. A quick search on Netflix proved fruitful, though, and soon we were watching the Doctor’s adventures on our own schedule.
Now our queue is filled with TV shows. Some are on channels we don’t have, while others are shows we’d heard about and never tuned in to watch. Watching TV via Netflix works for me because it’s sort of a delayed instant gratification. We have to wait for the discs to arrive, but then we can watch three episodes in a row!
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Piper is doing a little “math lesson” with a workbook and a set of tangrams that Aunt Chloe gave her.
“What’s this?” she asks, holding up a small green piece.
“That’s called a parallelogram,” I tell her.
“No,” she says, “that’s a paralleloBabyGraham.”
Don’t want to cook
4 Comments Published by Nichole May 12th, 2008 in Uncategorized, menu plan Monday.
My allergies flared up this weekend, leaving me congested, coughing and with very little voice today. What a way to start the week!
I do have a menu plan for the week, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we ended up having smoothies made with my Mother’s Day present every day instead.
Monday: Grilled cheese & tomato soup
Tuesday: Breakfast for dinner
Wednesday: Tacos
Thursday: Baked potatoes
Friday: Pizza
The children didn’t do a synchronized napping routine yesterday. Graham slept from about 11:30 until 2, and Piper slept from 3 ’til 5. While Pi was asleep, Graham and I took advantage of the nice afternoon light.
Graham can sit up unassisted for about 30 seconds, and for the very first time, he pushed himself into a position that looks suspiciously like a pre-crawl.
Alex joined a golf league at work. They play on Tuesdays, starting tonight. This could signal the end of my “Idol Chatter.” We shall see.
David Cook sings “Hungry Like the Wolf,” and he wants to watch “Neeeemmmmooooo” and “clooosse the compuuuuuuteeerr.”
Wait, what? Oh, that was Piper.
That didn’t last long.
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This was only slightly more interesting as it happened.
6 Comments Published by Nichole May 6th, 2008 in Project Seamstress.In a moment of daring and great self-confidence, I bought this pattern last fall, thinking that I would breezily make several of them to outfit Piper for the spring.
I unfolded the pattern yesterday and looked it over. Then I cut out the pieces, folded them up, set them aside and went off to have a bowl of ice cream and a good chuckle at the expense of Daring Nichole. She’s so delusional.
Oh, but that’s not the end! I pulled everything back out today and tried to sew! First I made a crooked denim tube. Then I threw it in the floor and cut out the “yoke” pieces again. And it worked! (More or less.) And then I got confused! And I think I attached it the wrong way! So I stopped!
Now the parts are folded up again. And so they shall remain until my mother-in-law comes over to help me.