The pancake mix in a plastic bottle; Cecily and Meredith as Merry Maids; Olivia researching homework on the internet (a skill at which she has become quite adept.)
Laura had her final wine class today, and Olivia was under the weather, so we spent the day at home, alternately sleeping and catching up on homework, especially the math book which Olivia has been avoiding. The little girls engaged their favorite pastimes of watching cartoons and slopping the stoop. Whether anything gets clean is seriously in doubt, but it is great fun to spread the water around. We also took time to marvel at the spectacle of Dad ironing his own shirts. "Why don't you just send them to the laundy," Meredith asked? We also took advantage of the time to experiment with a few new cultural experiences. Olivia and Dad played a game called Nine Men's Morris which we learned about in Portsmouth at the Mary Rose exhibition. It's sort of an advanced and expanded tic tac toe. After a couple false starts to master the rules, Olivia cleaned the floor with Dad. Meanwhiile, Meredith was in a culinary mood. She wanted to try combining different fruit juices to find out if there was a drinkable result. We actually decided orange and apple is pretty darn good. Try it if you haven't. Lastly, we experimented with Tesco pre-mixed pancakes. The mix comes in a plastic bottle. You simply add milk to the top of the label, shake and pour into the pan. This produced a thin, crepe-like pancake which was far different from the thick pancakes we are used to. Despite that, they were tasty and best of all there was no mess to clean once we were through! We ended the day with a trip to the Crabtree Pub in our neighborhood for a quiet dinner to celebrate Mom's finishing her course.
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