Jamie and Liam Chew's Blog: 2009-08-29

2009-08-29 23:40 (John) In principle, Saturday without Mom ought not to be too different from Saturday with Mom, as I usually take the boys to the St. Lawrence Market while Kristen stays at home and does housework. This one was a tiny bit more challenging though, as I had had only five hours' sleep for the second night in a row, and the boys had had only nine hours. The each melted down once over the course of the day, which is once more than usual, but not too bad, all things considered.

The boys ate half a samosa each at the market, before I noticed that one of the consequences of a mistaken Indian food delivery I'd been warned about was that the samosas were about four chillis on a Thai scale. No wonder they both finished their water bottles. They finished off their lunch with pizza and ice cream, and afternoon snack was leftover pizza. For dinner I wokked broccoli, sole and then broccoli-sole-fried rice, fed to the kids as quickly as it came out off the heat. My parents, who had come along to the market, dropped by and had dinner too, while the kids ate wild blueberry pie a la mode for dinner, trying not to be too goofy Skyping mom.

The boys were extremely compliant about bathtime at 20:30, were in bed by 21:15, and after fifteen minutes of Anpanman and fifteen minutes of a bedtime story from me, they both nodded off at about 21:45. I've finished a couple of hours of work now, and I'm beat, so I'm off to bed.