Wednesday might be Car Picnic night

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Monday: Ginger chicken stir-fry.

Tuesday: Grilled Italian sausages and mac & cheese.

Instead of letting one kid pick the kids’ night menu, I just picked something Pete loved to go with something Poppy loves.

Wednesday: Quiche.

After a good long time spent fretting that we weren’t getting involved at church, I finally signed up for a Wednesday night class. It starts this week, and I’m kind of nervous. I’m not great at meeting people, and I still don’t really know anyone there. What does that have to do with quiche? It means I made it on Sunday, it’s in the fridge and it’s going to be quick and easy.

Thursday: Breakfast for dinner.

Yes, we’re having eggs for dinner two days in a row! There won’t be cheese Thursday, though, which makes all the difference.

Friday: Pizza.

Her navigational skills already exceed her mother’s

Our “Five in a Row” book this week was “Follow the Drinking Gourd,” a story about the Underground Railroad. I was somewhat hesitant to discuss slavery with a 5-year-old. But discuss it we did. I tried to emphasize the kindness and humanity of those who helped rather than talking all that much about what the slaves were escaping.

We ended up not doing many of the FIAR-suggested activities this week. Here’s what we did do:
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Date night’s triumphant return

Quite a number of months ago, Rockford and I made a pledge to go on a weekly date. And I was writing about the dates, and they were fun, and then they stopped. It was supposed to be a 52-date project, but we only made it to date No. 9 before things interfered. We went a few weeks without having an official date, and then we forgot about it altogether.

But! We’re trying to start again. And thus I present to you:

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  • The friend with whom you’ve set up a date-night babysitting exchange
  • Trivia night.
  • A friend with whom Rockford and I went to high school lives in our city, and he is very hip and active in the Fun Things to Do scene. He goes to a trivia night downtown pretty regularly, and the last time he posted something about it on Facebook I asked him about it. And last night, Rockford and I finally went.

    Trivia night was held upstairs in a rather seedy-looking bar, and I only knew two of our six team members. But it was so much fun! The categories ranged from video game consoles to cartoon sidekicks to beer to movies, and I actually managed to come up with a few answers. Here are two of the questions I was able to answer:

  • From the cartoon sidekicks category: Kimber Benton, Shana Elmsford and Rio Pacheco. Can you name their show?
  • This beer comes in four “colors,” but most people drink their red, white or blue. As someone who doesn’t drink at all, I was pretty pleased to come up with this one. Do you know it?

    Trivia night was loud and quite a bit more raucous than our typical Monday night, but it was surprisingly relaxing to spend a few hours answering silly questions and hanging out with friends. And did I mention how much fun it was? We’ll definitely go back.

    Oh, and also? We won! Go team!