One of the most difficult things about being a trophy wife is that your coffee always gets cold while you're changing diapers, stopping the Great from eating crayon wrappers, and reading to Squirms. This afternoon, after making a second pot of coffee, I had a revelation: USE A THERMOS.
R and I each have a Contigo thermos that we carried to work every morning. R still fills and carries his to work. Why has it taken me almost two and a half years to figure out that I could keep coffee hot using the thermos I used to carry to work every day?
Recently I have also over-booked - no, that's a horrible pun - I have over-committed myself to too many books. I'm still reading D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climatic Battle of World War II, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, and Washington: A Life. And, I've read the first four Inspector Morse books and started the fifth, The Dead of Jericho.
Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse books are well written and intriguing. And, they don't follow a specific plot pattern which I think is rare with a series of books involving the same, very intriguing, main character. I also really like that I haven't been able to completely figure out the puzzle until Morse tells me.
Now, if I can just convince Squirms to stop taking my bookmarks out of the books I leave around....I think I should finish reading D-Day and The Dead of Jericho soon. D-Day is intense, so I only read several pages at a time; and both of these books require intellectual acuity that I don't normally have at the end of the day by the time both of our sweeties are asleep.
Squirm's favorite books lately include Olivia (also R's and my favorite), her Tractor book, and On the Night You Were Born (she likes pointing out the moon on each page). The Great doesn't have favorite books - he'll try to eat any of them. Squirms has also figured out that if she asks R to read the Bible (Storybook Bible) she can postpone her bedtime. How do you say no to a child asking to read the Bible?
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