Elizabeth’s Journal

A Pleasant Evening

Kathleen came in town to go apartment-hunting with Matthew, and afterwards she planned to spend the night here (although she will miss her morning cuddle with Jonathan as she leaves at 6 a.m. to make a bike ride in Chappell Hill Sunday morning with John, Tim, Felicia, and a few others). So Jen & Stepan came over about 4:30, which thrilled Jonathan to pieces of course, and Kathleen turned up a little over an hour later, and a pleasant relaxing evening was had by all. No one was around to goad me into cooking (you know who you are! ), so we had P.F. Chang’s takeout—very tasty. Easy cleanup too, and the preparation was a breeze. Jonathan got as cuddly with Stepan as I personally have ever seen him—he leaned all over him when Stepan was playing with his Gizmo (verdict was that Stepan is qualified to do kindergarten-level math), and he requested that Stepan do a turn spinning him around during the chocolate-covered raisin game. On the downside, Jonathan managed to bound onto the couch while Kathleen had a glass of wine in her hand—of course it immediately went all over Kathleen, the couch, and the floor. But luckily our carpet is so filthy you can’t see where it was, and the couch cleaned up pretty well too (I poured club soda on everything—did a pretty good job, and less messy than the table salt).

In the morning I am looking forward to having some of the dill bread that I made fresh this afternoon. Mom, this time I even put a few dill seeds in the bread itself as well as brushing them on the top—I’ll report on the outcome.