That Was Worthwhile

I eventually ended up with the kid’s room rearranged to have, clockwise around the edge, the toy kitchen, box of toys, big coffee table with Sadie’s computer and lamp that’s their night light, Nemo pillow, Sadie’s bed, Valerie’s bed, smaller coffee table with Val’s computer, and Val’s chair facing the end of the table.  That was the only way to make it usable for her to sit at, as the table is really too narrow.

Ideally they’d have both been at the big table, each at an end, but now the living room has lots of exciting floor space.  Much more fun for playing with the 36 of their Hot Wheels, Matchboxes, and mini Tonkas I turned up and shelved while moving things and picking up.  Their room also looks more open, though they should quickly cover the floor with toys again.

Previously Sadie wouldn’t sleep on her bed, but instead would nest partly on the Nemo pillow between the two beds, which now touch each other.  The excitement, and apparently preferable position, made her eager to sleep there.  I didn’t expect her to last all night, though.

They’re also totally excited to have the computers more usable, even if Sadie does try too hard to “help” Valerie.  I still need to get some games onto Sadie’s, or give it sound so she can use the Magic Schoolbus CDs.  Val brought up Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure on hers, somehow, and Sadie apparently remembered Ctrl makes him jump and the arrows move him, from watching me weeks ago.  She made him jump onto his ship, and I explained to her she didn’t want to use the left arrow exclusively, since he had to go the other way to get into the game.  Still, it’s cool she remembered and did that much.  I didn’t stick around to see if she managed more.  But somewhere along the line one of them successfully exited the game, intentionally or not.

Today I need to get other stuff done.  I was hoping to get back to work-like stuff late last night, but didn’t, for all I had a brief burst of maybe wakeful enough.

Then again, I would love to move things around the office, too.  Clean out the closet.  Put a bookcase in there and reorganize.  That sort of thing.  It’ll wait, though. 

More likely I’ll do some cooking.  It’s baking weather, but what I’m assuming I’ll make is chili or beef stew or beef and gravy over potatoes.  On the other hand, I could invent a casserole or do chicken in the oven or bake some squash or potatoes.  Haven’t baked squash before, but it worked well for pumpkins.  Mainly don’t want to get to 5:30 again before deciding on supper, for all the burgers were yummy and the kids devoured 1.5 hot dogs each, plus some cheese, chips, condiments and bites of my burger.  And lemon pudding, which might actually be even better than butterscotch.

I should start by reading the CotC entries I started on last night and couldn’t concentrate on…

1. mmm chili sounds good . Always nice to see siblings helping each other out. My nephew is very computer savvy and he’s only 6

   Posted by Hank  on  02/08  at  05:28 PM  from 
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