Indeed do many things come to pass

Nice weekend.  Nicer thanks to the generosity of friends.  Shabbas dinner was largely provided by a friend from the CSA, including our first home-baked challah in months.  Saturday I worked on Grumbles from the Grave at the Lad’s soccer practice.  In the evening a friend from work and his wife came up and joined us for a long round of badminton, and then cooked a delicious meal for us using our sadly neglected CSA produce.  Apples to Apples was mentioned, but by the time dinner and a bottle of mead (made by another friend of ours) was finished, they were tuckered out and had to go home.  Instead we put in The Princess Bride.  I only made it through about half the film before I dozed off.

Today my mom came up again, which enabled me to take the Lad to his soccer game and a pool party afterwards without worrying about leaving Stacey alone to deal with the baby.  It was a good game, and thankfully this time I managed to park myself away from the more… exuberant parents.  I suspect the pool party was more fun for Joshua than it was for me – I find that the areas of overlap between my interests and those of the average suburban soccer parents are strictly bounded.  But I can think of far worse ways to spend a balmy late summer afternoon.

Tonight, had pizza and watched Quantum Leap with the family.

I’m wishing I didn’t have to drive in to work tomorrow.  Working from home immediately after Kashti’s birth kind of spoiled me. Some day I wish to have a job that lets me work primarily from home.

I’m holding up pretty well.  With Stacey feeling better, and the kind help of friends, I’m not feeling quite as beset as I was.  I still wish I had  time to get caught up on my mail and bills and other organizational matters – these things can only be ignored so long, and the backlog has become daunting at this point.  But my state of mind is much improved.