Week Five

01.30.10 to 01.31.10

Evening

Today was: “Sabbath is a day at the spa.”

After feasting on skordalia and tyrokavteri and fresh pita, there would be no need to cook tonight! On the way home I purpose to remember as I enter a new week how it felt to breath, to remember that water quenches thirst.

Once home I squirmed, wanting to dig into work, then wanting to spend the nervous energy baking something yummy. Instead Hannah and I twisted Sara’s arm to make a Sprinkles run. Sprinkles Cupcakes are an LA phenomenon.

I like driving at night. I like driving on routes that are not the norm, makes living in the city less like a Habitrail. When we got to Sprinkles our mouths were watering, the doors were locked. Locked at 7:15 on a Saturday night? Really? We drove to Whole Foods and bought oodles of ice cream, went home and topped it with homemade caramel sauce.

I fell asleep not long after that, amazing how tired I felt after taking an entire day off.

Morning

Our household woke up after 11, Sara and Wesley were long on the road.

Hannah spent the afternoon with friends at the happiest place on Earth. Willie and I scooped up the boys and spent a few hours at the beach where I experienced a few more deep cleansing breaths. Willie read aloud from a book on education while the boys took turns burying each other in mounds of sand.

I went to the gym before dark. Working out has never been so great, go and figure light makes all the difference.

Evening

Pizza take out was on the menu. The boys watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, while I, you guessed it, got back to work.