highlights, lowlights

From my weekend sans Geoff:
Highlights:
-Scrubbing the kitchen sink to a satisfying shine while listening to Ah Perfido! while the kids played in the sun.
-A long game of hide n' seek at the arboretum, chasing the heck out of them with nowhere else to be.
-The litany of the Saints on Sunday morning, the kids touching the Book of the Dead with wonder in their eyes.
-They collected kid-sized armfuls of kindling at the arb.
-Wrapping them up like burritos and tickling them til they drool or toot.
-Waking up before all of them to read and have my cup.
-Wearing jammies and robes and reading stories on the front porch to wait for Geoff.

Lowlights:
-Almost 20 minutes, five of us, in the bathroom at Whole Foods.
-Dropping the F bomb at breakfast when 5 dollars of organic milk splashed our feet.
-Trying to arrange pillows to simulate my husband's sleeping frame.
-The worst combination of 2 kids fighting, one injured one and one precariously close to being injured-- and all of them SIMULTANEOUSLY asking for help in some way.