pre-trip

I feel safe admitting in real time that we are about to leave for a trip because we’ll be having a housesitter.

Otherwise, I would worry.

Do you worry about these things?

By this time, tomorrow night, we will be in New Mexico. I almost can’t imagine it.

By the way, the year before this one, we DID NOT TRAVEL AT ALL.

This year, we have been to Los Angeles, St. George Utah, Kauai, and now southern NM.

Crazy.

I’ve emailed the housesitter with all the animals’ requirements, info on how to work the TV and remote, and a list of good places that deliver food to our house. Still have to finish laundry, pack, make the place presentable for someone else.

Meditate. Haven’t done that yet!

We’ve had quite a busy day: Puzzle doing and book reading in the morning. Playdate for Jonah while we adults shopped for clothes and a bought a birthday gift for the birthday party we attended next and then somehow the afternoon post-party got consumed with the playing with favors from the party — another puzzle plus space action figures and transport vehicles and sharks, which curiously at one point I found lounging in the ice tray in the freezer. And then dinner.

Tonight Jonah ate carrots and broccoli and cauliflower. Even asked for seconds on the broccoli and cauliflower. It was an auspicious meal in that regard as generally all he wants is protein, fat, and carbs.

I’m afraid I know exactly where he gets that from.

The vegetables were roasted — which is his preferred method of preparation/consumption, and mine. It’s only taken me 4 years of motherhood to try to roast vegetables for dinner instead of serving salad which the boy will not eat. I’d say “consistently” somewhere in the previous sentence but I don’t want to jinx it. I mean, I have roasted vegetables before, but why I haven’t done it MORE OFTEN is a mystery. Here’s to hoping I roast vegetables many more times in the future. I think we’ll all benefit.