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| Sydney, May 2013 - nearly-winter here not quite the same as nearly-winter in Canberra! |
Here
I am again, getting caught up with the latest happenings around casa RL.
Work/school
Pleased to report that DP worked from home one day last week! I can’t remember the last time that
happened. He did school drop-off and pick-up, and we went out to lunch alone
together for possibly the first time since before we left Missouri last May.
Miss B is immersed in Term 2, and the other day ran in the school-wide
cross-country event. Each senior student (years 3-6) in her school is assigned to one of four houses, which compete
against each other in various events, so on cross-country day they divvied up
the entire school into houses, who sat on the junior oval, cheering on their
housemates and generally making a ruckus when it wasn’t their turn to run an
event. With the rest of the kids born in 2004, Miss B ran two circuits of the
grounds, for a distance totaling 2 km. Given that a) Miss B is the smallest kid in Year 3 and
b) kids who were born in 2005 who tower over her only had to run one circuit, I
was thoroughly impressed with her perseverance and spirit in finishing the
course. As for me, I am already up to my ears in preparations for my .org’s next major
meeting, which happens in mid-September. Even though I know rationally that
this is four months away, it feels as though it’s just around the corner
because there’s so much stuff we’ve got to put in place now, before people
start booking their travel arrangements.
Recreation This kind of
overlaps with work, but I was thrilled to discover another member of my .org
who is based in Canberra. (This brings the total, as far as I know, to three of
us.) She brought her two little ones over for tea (adults), slab scones (everyone),
and a play (children) the other day. Between bouts of wrangling three children among two
adults, we managed to have some grownup conversation about work stuff that we’re
both interested in and might collaborate on – very nerdy and enjoyable. Makes me realize how much I miss
having people around who understand what the heck I’m talking about most of the
time. In other news, we took the new car out for its first road trip and went
to Sydney for the weekend. DP not only voluntarily went shopping on George
Street (Sydney’s main shopping district) on Saturday afternoon, it was his
idea. (This is ‘what have you done with my real husband?’ territory.) He took
Miss B to a hobby shop so that could look at trains and planes and so on, and I
got to browse in Dymock’s by myself. For a whole hour. It was blissful.
Food
Nothing revolutionary to report on the cooking front; I’ve been trying out some
other people’s recipes, and revisiting some of my own favorites:
- gnocchi with bacon, spinach, and cream (roughly based on this recipe)
- roasted pork belly (I sat this on top of a bed of chopped carrot, celery, fennel, and red onion, and roasted some potatoes for Italian potatoes with oil alongside)
- a variation on the chicken soup with orzo recipe from the Dinner a Love Story cookbook (you can see a picture of it here)
- and more soup – a fridge-clearing vegetable soup using my soup spec
- and a batch of sweet and spicy nuts, just to have something around to nibble on
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