Fun Things

Mom took the girls to the Ren­nais­sance Fes­ti­val this Sat­ur­day. They had a great time—in cos­tume, of course. They nev­er miss an oppor­tu­ni­ty to dress up like that!

real_pochacco stayed home with Papa (that’s my father, not Sam). He was sup­posed to be work­ing on a big school project. He has­n’t been doing well with resist­ing dis­trac­tions at home when he’s alone. We knew we’d be run­ning around most of the day and he would­n’t get much done in the car, so that seemed the best place for him to be. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, he did­n’t do any work on the project any­way. He did­n’t do any­thing else, either—he can’t real­ly tell us how he spent the time. This comes after he’d refused to get up and go to school Fri­day. He had deten­tion sched­uled for Fri­day. For the sec­ond week in a row, he missed it—so now he’ll have in-school suspension.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly lit­tle­fire­fae woke up with a slight fever Sun­day morn­ing and threw up. She’s at home today. It seems to just be a cold—we think the nau­sea is from sinus drainage.

We had 15 or so peo­ple here Fri­day night, accord­ing to some­one who was count­ing (I was­n’t). I was too busy enjoy­ing the com­pa­ny of mrp­syk­lops and some of the oth­er guests. sam­bear was mak­ing love­ly things in the kitchen and being a good host. We had three folks show up from the local poly group who haven’t attend­ed a filk before. The small­er group was actu­al­ly more com­fort­able for me.

We need to do a lit­tle more apart­ment search­ing, but I think we’ve found the com­pa­ny with whom we want to do busi­ness. We just need to pick which of their com­mu­ni­ties we’ll be in. I real­ly liked the last one we looked at Sat­ur­day, but it has high­er occu­pan­cy rates than some of their oth­ers in the same area and there­fore costs about $200 more a month.