post party

Well, Chris has more details in his blog, but we had a fabulous time at our "Summer Soiree" for the K school Thursday night. Joel (and later Lani) came over to watch the kids. Fortunately, Kalian is going down early enough these days to put her to sleep before going out. Liam was very excited about playing with Chris, and when he crawled into bed this morning, he said, "Where's Joel?" - i.e. why isn't he in bed with all of us?

Anyway, I convinced Chris to put on his great 70's Tux shirt, and I threw on a dress I had made in Vietnam, and we walked over to the K school. I, of course, brought a bag for my dancing shoes. If I was going to walk that long I needed to go in my earthy sandals. So I handed off my big pink/purple/orange bag to Chris to carry over there. The bag combined with his billowing tux shirt made him into quite the metrosexual that many an eye noticed. For some reason, it was also the first time I had worn my hair down. Cheesy metaphor, perhaps? Well, we ended up having mostly fun conversation and entirely fun dancing. It felt great to let go.

But when I woke up Friday morning, it was raining and I had a visit from aunt flow. It definitely felt like a hangover - but without the alcohol part. I had the kids that morning, so I had planned to get together with Anita, who had just moved out here. She's a friend from the Bay Area. We were to meet at a kids sing-along. The event wasn't happening, so we went over to Anita's house. She has two boys, about the same age as Liam and Kalian, so it was a perfect opportunity for me to just let them go bonkers over a huge play area in her house loaded with toys. I had it pretty easy.

This morning we went to the Harvard Coop for story hour. The theme was the Boston Red Sox. The kids weren't interested in the books, but Liam actually found the red sock puppets mildly entertaining, and the free cheese fish and chocolate chip cookies were a big hit. But I mainly wanted to go to pick up a Harvard course catalogue and some travel books. We didn't think we'd feel settled enough to travel during my time off, but we feel pretty grounded and want to take the opportunity to get away before I get pounded with course work.

Ok, not sure what the point of this post is - more journal like...