I needed to make sure I was sleeping before 10:30 last night so I decided it was ok if this came a day late 🙂
Today was a super-early start because I had a 5:30am meeting.
Nathaniel slept with me again but when I woke up, he was clearly still too tired so I asked him if he wanted to go back to sleep and that I’d wake him up at 6 when my first meeting was over. He said ok. I went downstairs and did a quick lunch prep to make it easier on Nathaniel, also prepped the oatmeal and then sat down with my tea.
I spend most of my days like this. On videoconference with my team mates. Since I work with a team in Zurich, a lot of my meetings and work is early AM. Right before this meeting, I snuck upstairs and woke up Nathaniel as I’d promised.
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While I was in my meeting, Nathaniel prepared lunch for both him and David. He’s been doing this all year. He’s a total gem.
We took one more shot on the way to the shuttle. David didn’t forget his glasses this time.
Since I was meeting my mentee for lunch, I decided to eat a small breakfast. Small yogurt with a few berries.
Then it was time to get organized again and figure out what I had to do today.
On the way to the cafe where I met my mentee (she’s out on maternity but we still try to check in with each other) I listened to my book. I’m currently reading Imagine Me Gone by Adam Hasslett and listening to Fellside by M.R. Carey. I love listening to my books when I am in the car.
I had a lovely lunch with my mentee and then drove back home for more work and then it was time to pick up the boys. Nathaniel gets out earlier and he’s always waiting for me in this corner.
We drove straight home today and I asked David if I could get a shot, this is what he let me have. He wasn’t super thrilled.
Nathaniel watered all the plants in the front and backyard while David showered.
David did this math homework while Nathaniel showered and I prepared their dinner. We are super early today because David has a music class and then we had plans to leave right after.
While they ate I turned on CNN to see how the primaries had gone. Nothing super surprising.
Nathaniel has to read 20 minutes a day for his homework. He loves reading series and is currently reading Ellery Jake series.
David started tuning his guitar in preparation for his teacher. He usually plays the acoustic guitar but he’s preparing for a Talent Show in two weeks so he’s practicing the electric guitar these weeks. 
His teacher is here and they are practicing Superheroes by The Script.
While he is with his teacher, Nathaniel and I continue our math class from yesterday. Today’s topic is Order of Operations.
As soon as the teacher leaves, we drive to our local bookstore. Today’s the release day for my friend Evelyn’s book and several of us volunteered to help her setup.
Here she is with her awesome daughter Reese!
A wonderful pastry chef did the amazing food and she made Russian desserts (the book takes place in Imperial Russia) and look at these swans!!
More Russian desserts 🙂
Here’s Angela who organizes the events at Kepler’s bookstore and Evelyn’s good friend.
And then Evelyn and Sabaa whose book was also awesome.
I had preordered my copy so David started reading it right away.
Sabaa then interviewed Evelyn and the crowd had a lot of questions and it was a really lovely evening. I am so incredibly happy for my friend. Her book is really really awesome. Our first grade teacher and 7 of Reese’s classmates were also there to support them and it was really nice. By the time we were done it was almost 9 and well past bedtime so we drove back home and Nathaniel went right to bed. David decided he wanted to as well. I spent a few hours doing some more work and then headed to bed myself.
And here we are. Day 2.
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