Day 15

Monday, June 24, 2013

So, I'm all caught up again and hopefully I can keep another streak going.

We started the day off with art camp for the girls.  Each summer, their art teacher from school offers an art camp out of her house.  The girls go every summer and absolutely love it!  When we got there this morning, they saw several of their school mates.  It was a great way for them to catch up with friends.  I also got to see some of my friends that I haven't seen since I've started working full time.  We made plans to meet up tomorrow morning at the donut shop two doors down from the art camp and I can't wait.  Melinda was a little overwhelmed with all the smiling faces and introductions from my friends.  They have been waiting to meet her for some time now and were very excited to finally meet her in person.

After art camp was over, the girls had work out before we came home for lunch.  Melinda had already gotten everything made by the time we got home.  What a sweetheart!

My nephew is staying with my parents this week, so we all headed out to see Monsters University after lunch.  It was a really good movie!  The kids loved it.  Somewhere in the middle of the movie, I started to get a really bad headache.  By the time we got home, all I wanted to do was lay down.  Robert went to workout without me and the girls and I camped out on the couch and watched a movie.  Melinda has never seen A League of their Own, so we put that on.  She enjoyed it as much as we do.  When Robert got home, we were at the tail end of the movie and when it finished, we put on The Mask of Zorro.  My headache hasn't gotten any better, so I've pretty much flown through the day without many details.  Sorry!  Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow.

Our discussion this evening is about food.  Melinda is beginning to see just how much Americans, us inparticular, eat out instead of cooking at home.  She was under the impression that Americans do not like to cook, but I was telling her that it is probably more that we are too busy to cook at home.  I know that is true in our case.  We have filled our days with so many activities that by the time we get home, we're all starving and don't want to wait for someone to cook dinner.  We also talked about 'weird' foods that we like.  We discovered that Hungarians also have a soup very similar to menudo.  Sweet!  I was wanting to make some last weekend, but wasn't sure if she would like it.  Now my focus is to try and cook at home more and save our eating out trips to one or two times a week.