Back to normalcy

After a fun-filled week in Wisconsin, we're back to normalcy or something close to it. It's always difficult to get back into the swing of things after a vacation. You have to clean up and and unpack. And, home just isn't as fun--especially when everyone is tired and boring and the temperature is 95 degrees. Meredith certainly thinks her parents are pretty boring at such times and she's probably right. What follows then is a grouchy 3 year-old who pleads to be able to watch television among other usually poorly-timed or outright unreasonable requests.

Fortunately, the weather got cooler pretty quick and everyone's mood improved. Meredith enjoyed getting back to her friends at preschool after being gone. She also had a fun soccer day at preschool today, during which she got to kick the ball past the coach into the goal. (She explained the set-up and process excitedly to her parents a couple times, referring to the orange traffic cones as "construction circles with lines up."

Meredith is also getting more sneaky. Tonight when she was supposed to be in her bed I went to her room and saw a flash jumping into the bed. Meredith had the presence of mind to then lie on her back, close her eyes and pretend to sleep. The artificially stiff pose and wide grin on her face may have betrayed her performance a bit, as well as the loud running to the bed seconds earlier. Meredith was able to keep it up for about 4 seconds and then couldn't resist responding to my charge about her being out of bed. "I wanted to get my door open." We quickly settled on a compromise status for the door and said goodnight. She only got out of bed one more time after that.

Everything else this week is pretty typical. Jen's studying everyday for the bar exam in two weeks. She has enlisted me to quiz her from her flashcards. Usually we go for a walk with Elaine on the greenway as I quiz her on duties of care on tort negligence and attorneys' professional responsibilities to clients and the difference between general and specific intent crimes, or some such gibberish that I really don't understand but she seems to.